An exhibition of pictures of the Rebbe will be on display at the Chabad House of Gramacy Park on Yud Aleph Nisan. The pictures were taken by N.Y. Times photographer Mark Asnin. Asnin worked in the Sunday Times and wrote an article about the Rebbe describing him as the “Urim V’Tumim of Crown Heights.”
In the coming weeks a special program on the disengagement plan, on the emotional bond between the Jew and his land, will be aired on several TV channels in the U.S. among them the Russian channel RTVI.
On Wednesday a TV crew arrived in 770 in Crown Heights and interviewed people saying “despite you living in the U.S. your opinion is of value to us.”
Ushpizin, the much acclaimed Israeli Charedi film will now be playing in N.Y. on Chol Hamoed Pesach. It is a rare opportunity to experience the film that won the hearts of Charedim and non-religious audiences in Israel alike. It is an authentic look in the Chassidic life in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem.
Ushpizin is the first Charedi film in Israel that is not played on Shabbos and Yom Tov and has the approval of many leading orthodox rabbis in Israel. It has even won the Israeli Critics Award for best film of 2004 and Shuli Rand won an Academy award for best actor.
The film will be shown at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, 36 Battery Place during Chol Hamoed Pesach.
Tickets are available through the Tribeca Film Festival website www.tribecafilmfestival.org or call 212-321-7400 or 866-941-FEST. Open from 10 AM – 6PM
Reserve your tickets now as availability is very limited. Call now.
On the Rebbe’s birthday, 11th of Nissan, thousands of children of Chabad institutes in New York will gather in 770.
A woman was killed when a mini-school bus jumped the curb and pinned the woman against a building in Brooklyn. Five others were injured in the accident, which involved the school bus and two other vehicles.
The accident occurred right across the street from the Ocean Ave. Hatzalah garage. Dozens of Flatbush Hatzalah members responded to the call.
Police say the accident which was on Ocean Avenue and Avenue N, occurred when a minivan hit a woman who was crossing the street while the light was against her. She was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries.
A mini school bus rear-ended an SUV that was slowing down for the accident, and another car hit the school bus — pushing it onto the curb. When the school bus jumped the curb it hit another woman on the sidewalk, pinning her against a building. That woman died at the scene.
Police say four people were taken to Maimonides Hospital, and the bus driver was taken to Kings County Hospital. They are all listed in stable condition.
Although reports indicate that their was only one fatality, witness’s reported seeing at least four bodies R”L covered by white sheets from the medical examiner.
Chabadnik.com has been informed that this year Yud Aleph Nisan, Aguch is planning to arrange for minyanim at the home of the Rebbe on President Street.
The Raksin family of Crown Heights is inviting all residents of the neighborhood and Temimim to take part in a Sefer Torah dedication tomorrow Thursday 5 Nisan on behalf of Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Chana and their family.
Conclusion of writing the letters will commence at 5 PM in their house 1410 Carroll St. and at 7 PM will proceed in a parade towards 770 where “hakofos” etc. will be held.
On Shabbos Parshas Shmini, Mesivta Oholei Torah, Hanholo and Bochurim totaling more than 120 people k”ah went on a Shabbaton to Saratoga Springs, NY.
The Bochurim were accompanied by the majority of the Hanholo, former camp, Yeshivas Kayitz head counselors and directors , as well as Rabbi Pesach Nussbaum from Montreal, Rabbi Zev Kadaner, and Rabbi Abba Rubin. (Shliach in Saratoga).
On the way they stopped off in the @ the Capital of New York State in Albany,
This morning in 770 not only was there a Hanochas Tefillin in the Mizrach but right next to it a Bar Mizvah as well.
Click here to see the Rebbe drawing Mayim Shelanu in the front yard of 770 today.
Note the individual handing the hose to the Rebbe. Very thoughtful, young man. Very thoughtful.
A photo essay by Carolyn Drake titled “The Lubavitch” has won an award in the Pictures of the Year International photojournalism competition. The essay, comprising 22 pictures from taken around Crown Heights, @ the Kinnus HaShluchim & Shluchos and the Ohel, won 1st place in the community awareness award category.
During the fall of 2003, while interning at National Geographic, Miss Drake spent about 6 weeks in Crown Heights. She then returned several times in early 2004 for a few days at a time.
The essay was printed in the June 2004 edition of Blueeyes Magazine a magazine-style website for photography ran her essay on their site.
When contacted for this story by SNS, Drake responded “I was very excited to hear I won the award and am very grateful to all the people in the Lubavitch community who welcomed me into their lives and enabled the project to happen. I would love to hear from anyone who has suggestions about other Lubavitch activities that ought to be photographed as I expand the project to other areas.”
CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE AWARD WINNING PHOTO ESSAY
SNS ED. Miss Drake can be contacted via e-mail @ drakeycake@hotmail.com
Yesterday the maintenance staff of 770 in Crown Heights started cleaning the Shul for Pesach, moving all the benches and tables outside and going through every crack to make sure there is no Chometz.
Get ready for that time of year again when we get barred from the Shul and we all have to Daven outside and upstairs, hopefully we will at least have warm weather.
Fourteen tumultuous years have done little to heal the hurt of Fay Rosenbaum, whose son Yankel was stabbed to death in a 1991 race riot that came to symbolize a dark and angry period in the city’s history.
Rosenbaum’s family, including the 71-year-old matriarch, is back in the city from Australia, once again seeking justice in the Hasidic scholar’s death. This time, they want to show that Yankel Rosenbaum got shoddy treatment from city doctors after Lemrick Nelson left him dying on a Crown Heights street.
“I don’t forgive and I don’t forget,” Fay, 71, told the Daily News in an exclusive interview Wednesday, just before the Brooklyn Supreme Court judge hearing the family’s civil case against the city issued a gag order.
At 2:00 AM on Monday a Bochur decided to cause some trouble and went outside 788-770 to the corner stone with a blowtorch and burned the protective glass, the security guard asked him what he was doing and he ran.
The Police were called and arrived on scene at about 2:05am but it was too late as the bochur decided to do his exercise and run down the block, the police are dealing with the situation and because of Bochurim like the one today will be the cause of no one having access to touch the stone.
At 3:01am a call came through to the FDNY where a tenant at 1325 Union Street thought he smelt gas, and by 3:07am there were 7 fire trucks on the scene tehy went in to check everything out and it turned out it was nothing, at 3:14am the fire trucks left the scene and PD remained to speak to the tenant and arrested him at 3:18am.
