Mazal Tov! – New Engagement
We would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Shlaime (ben R. Yossel) Muchkin (Crown Heights) upon his engagement to Etty (bas R. Zalman) Hurwitz (Crown Heights) !
The L’Chaim will IY”H be Wednesday night in the Jewish Children’s Museum.
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Yesterday at approximately 7:30pm, a car diving down Carroll St hit a cyclist while crossing the intersection with Schenectady Ave. The cyclist, a black male, appeared to have taken a red light, when the car, a white dodge charger appeared to have a green light, hit him swerving unto to the sidewalk and taking down the gate in front of the Raim Ahuvim Shul, which has recently been replaced. The cyclist then got up, limped unto his bike and fled to a nearby alleyway.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Accident at intersection of Carroll and Schenectady
Yesterday at approximately 7:30pm, a car diving down Carroll St hit a cyclist while crossing the intersection with Schenectady Ave. The cyclist, a black male, appeared to have taken a red light, when the car, a white dodge charger appeared to have a green light, hit him swerving unto to the sidewalk and taking down the gate in front of the Raim Ahuvim Shul, which has recently been replaced. The cyclist then got up, limped unto his bike and fled to a nearby alleyway.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Yesterday evening was the meeting in which attendees vote for the positions in the precinct council.
Among those attended were members of the Vaad Hakohol, Chanina Sperlin, Moshe Rubshkin and Leibish Nash, sitting together.
Picture of the Day – Precinct Council Meeting!
Yesterday evening was the meeting in which attendees vote for the positions in the precinct council.
Among those attended were members of the Vaad Hakohol, Chanina Sperlin, Moshe Rubshkin and Leibish Nash, sitting together.
The two groups involved are the Conference of European Rabbis, a veteran organization that has been representing the continent's chief rabbis for 50 years, and the Center of European Rabbis, a fairly new organization that is associated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement. Two weeks ago the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, sided with the latter group, which raised a few eyebrows at the EU and generated a storm in Brussels.
European rabbinic groups at loggerheads over representing Jews in EU
Brussels, Belgium — Two Jewish umbrella organizations in Belgium are waging an intense political struggle over which will serve as the main Jewish representative to the European Union.
The two groups involved are the Conference of European Rabbis, a veteran organization that has been representing the continent’s chief rabbis for 50 years, and the Center of European Rabbis, a fairly new organization that is associated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement. Two weeks ago the Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel, Yona Metzger, sided with the latter group, which raised a few eyebrows at the EU and generated a storm in Brussels.
Well into her first year at Western Washington University, Elizabeth Setlow wanted to learn more than what was taught in her college classes. She also wanted to learn more about what it means to be Jewish.
“I had sort of a secular upbringing” on Whidbey Island, Setlow said. “I always identified myself as Jewish, but I never had the opportunity to do anything about it.”
Jews grow in faith at Chabad
Well into her first year at Western Washington University, Elizabeth Setlow wanted to learn more than what was taught in her college classes. She also wanted to learn more about what it means to be Jewish.
“I had sort of a secular upbringing” on Whidbey Island, Setlow said. “I always identified myself as Jewish, but I never had the opportunity to do anything about it.”
Rashi comments (8:2) that when Moses' brother, Aaron the High Priest, felt bad because G-d did not ask him to bring an offering for the Tabernacle like the other heads of the tribes (Num. 7:1-83), G-d consoled him:
“Don't worry, you get to light the Menora, which is even greater!”
And to this very day the Menora is undoubtedly the best known vessel in the Holy Temple.
But it is also the most misrepresented...
The Weekly Sedra – Behaalotecha
This section begins with the commandment of lighting the Menora.
Rashi comments (8:2) that when Moses’ brother, Aaron the High Priest, felt bad because G-d did not ask him to bring an offering for the Tabernacle like the other heads of the tribes (Num. 7:1-83), G-d consoled him:
“Don’t worry, you get to light the Menora, which is even greater!”
And to this very day the Menora is undoubtedly the best known vessel in the Holy Temple.
But it is also the most misrepresented…
At around 3:45pm yesterday two minivans collided in the intersection of Carroll and Albany, both drivers were ok and refused medical attention, and both are Jewish members of the community.
According to one of the drivers, a woman who was driving down Carroll St she had a green light when all of a sudden a white minivan just drove up right in front of her and they collided, the driver of the other van was overheard saying they he tried to stop but his brakes failed and he couldn’t stop. B”H no one was injured the only damage was to the cars.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
Accident in the intersection of Carroll and Albany
At around 3:45pm yesterday two minivans collided in the intersection of Carroll and Albany, both drivers were ok and refused medical attention, and both are Jewish members of the community.
According to one of the drivers, a woman who was driving down Carroll St she had a green light when all of a sudden a white minivan just drove up right in front of her and they collided, the driver of the other van was overheard saying they he tried to stop but his brakes failed and he couldn’t stop. B”H no one was injured the only damage was to the cars.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
The suspect in a stabbing at Crown Heights in the Botanic Gardens subway station remains on the loose. Police have questioned several people already, but no arrests have been made.
According to police, the victim was stabbed on the steps leading from the subway to the Franklin Avenue shuttle.
I'm surprised. Nothing like this ever happened over here. Surprised. Got to watch my back, it could happen to anybody."
Stabbing At Crown Heights Subway Station
Click Here for a Newscast of this event
The suspect in a stabbing at Crown Heights in the Botanic Gardens subway station remains on the loose. Police have questioned several people already, but no arrests have been made.
According to police, the victim was stabbed on the steps leading from the subway to the Franklin Avenue shuttle.
I’m surprised. Nothing like this ever happened over here. Surprised. Got to watch my back, it could happen to anybody.”
A fund was established to assist the family of R' Yosef Yitzchok Eidelman A"H who passed away and the age of 44 this past Friday leaving behind a widow and 9 orphans, one of them critically ill with a cancerous brain tumor. Any assistance that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
The website for the fund is www.kerenedelman.com.
Fund for the Family of R’ Yosef Yitzchok Eidelman A”H
A fund was established to assist the family of R’ Yosef Yitzchok Eidelman A”H who passed away and the age of 44 this past Friday leaving behind a widow and 9 orphans, one of them critically ill with a cancerous brain tumor. Any assistance that you can provide will be greatly appreciated.
The website for the fund is www.kerenedelman.com.
And while the precise timing of the synagogue's destruction remains unclear, there are indications that it might be carried out before the end of the month.
In February, local demolition teams began tearing down the century-old synagogue in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, but halted in the wake of an outcry from abroad, though not before they had managed to raze the community's mikve, an office and a classroom.
Tajikistan’s synagogue could be razed in two weeks
Despite widespread international protests, authorities in Tajikistan are still planning to demolish the country’s only synagogue to make way for the expansion of a presidential palace, The Jerusalem Post has learned.
And while the precise timing of the synagogue’s destruction remains unclear, there are indications that it might be carried out before the end of the month.
In February, local demolition teams began tearing down the century-old synagogue in the Tajik capital of Dushanbe, but halted in the wake of an outcry from abroad, though not before they had managed to raze the community’s mikve, an office and a classroom.
Former chief rabbi of Israel urges Jews to unite
Toronto, Canada — Just days before his devastating second stroke in January, then-Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon called Rabbi Israel Meir Lau to discuss a government position he had in mind for him in the Kadimah party, the former Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Israel told a Toronto audience last week.
Sharon asked for Rabbi Lau’s help addressing two issues: the disconnection between Jews in the Diaspora and Jews in Israel, and the disconnection between Israeli youth and Jewish tradition, said the rabbi, who is now chief rabbi of Tel Aviv. He was speaking to a crowd of almost 1,200 people at the third annual Spirit of Community dinner held by Beth Chabad Israeli Community Centre at Vaughan’s Renaissance Parque Centre.
Some of you have noticed, and some of you haven’t. I was away on a short vacation and had not posted any news for six days, and now I am back.
I would like to thank “Techie” for filling in all my duties as well as he did, readership stayed strong and the interest in the site is as high as ever!
Webby,
Im Back!
Some of you have noticed, and some of you haven’t. I was away on a short vacation and had not posted any news for six days, and now I am back.
I would like to thank “Techie” for filling in all my duties as well as he did, readership stayed strong and the interest in the site is as high as ever!
Webby,
Klein – Lazar Wedding
Shluchim, Mashpiim, Roshai Yeshivos, Bochurim and Members Of Anash took part last night in the wedding of Yanky Klein, son of R. Binyomin Klein to the daughter of R. Moshe Lazar Shliach to Milan, Italy.
A special ‘Tshurah’ was given out at the wedding, to view it Click Here.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
Chabad dominates Birthright Mega Event
Birthright Israel celebrated the Annual Mega Event held on June 13th at the Latrun Memorial for the Armed Corps. In addition to the event, this also marked the one hundred thousandth student participating on birthright since the programs conception. Chabad recognizing the amazing potential to reach out to the many students, had volunteers working on location publicizing its many programs, and on the forefront JNET, the chavrusa by phone network. At the event alone well over one thousand brochures were distributed and over two hundred and fifty students signed up to join on the spot!
“Students coming from the Mayanot Birthright Israel this past winter expressed a high interest in joining JNET, and therefore we decided to step it up a notch and present it to the entire spectrum of students participating, thus enabling us to reach out to ten times amount of students, totaling about seven thousand Jewish students,’ said Mendy Rivkin, of the JNET campus division.
Mazal Tov! – New Engagements!
We would like to wish a hearty Mazal Tov to Yossi (ben R. Yankel) Bryski (Crown Heights) upon his engagement to Estie Liberow (Antwerp, Belgium) !
And to Yaakov Tzvi Kantor (Crown Heights) upon his engagement to Yuti Rosenfeld (Zurich, Switzerland) !
The Lechaim will IY”H be Tomorrow [Thursday] in Chovevei Torah, Eastern Pkwy between Albany and Troy.
It was Moussie's birthday and her bubby asked her what she would like as a gift; she could pick anything. Without delay, Moussie replied that she would like pennies. Why would an eighth grade student want pennies for her birthday when she could have requested anything, you ask?
Simple, that is all Moussie thinks about these days. Her eighth grade class in Beth Rivkah Elementary School in Brooklyn, New York, is frantically gathering pennies in conjunction with their studies of the Holocaust.
Why are Beth Rivkah girls collecting Pennies?
It was Moussie’s birthday and her bubby asked her what she would like as a gift; she could pick anything. Without delay, Moussie replied that she would like pennies. Why would an eighth grade student want pennies for her birthday when she could have requested anything, you ask?
Simple, that is all Moussie thinks about these days. Her eighth grade class in Beth Rivkah Elementary School in Brooklyn, New York, is frantically gathering pennies in conjunction with their studies of the Holocaust.
Mazal Tov! Its A Girl!
We would like to a hearty Mazal Tov to Shimmi and Shternei Althaus (Sydney, Australia) on the birth their baby girl! And to the grandparents, Sholom and Channa Goldstein (Crown Heights) , Binyomin and Miriam Althaus (Melbourne, Australia) !
