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Search Results for 'History of Crown Heights'

Op-Ed: To Beard or Not to Beard, That is the Question

by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

Musings on the fall of Matisyahu’s Facial Locks

Matisyahu is a friend of mine so I was not going to comment on his choice to shave off his beard. It was his personal decision. Live and let live. But I changed my mind when my children told me that they were reading all over the internet that young, impressionable, orthodox Jewish youth were also choosing to shave off their beards following Matisyahu’s lead (I’m assuming these were young men, rather than women, who made the choice). It was then that I decided to weigh in.

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Mendel Levitansky (Simcha Monica, CA) to Shaina Geisinsky (Great Neck, NY) L’Chaim: Sunday, Sept. 6th, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Zalmy Silberberg (Mexico City, Mexico/Postville, IA) to Dvory Shachar (Miami, Florida) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Nachman Hakohen Temkin (Argentina) to Tali Lancewicki (Miami, Florida)
New Engagement!

Yosef Madar (Crown Heights) to Sarah Edelkopf (Milan, Italy) L’Chaim: Thursday, Sept. 3rd, 8:00pm at The JCM
New Engagement!

Menachem Mendel Banin (Venice, Italy) to Menucha Rochel Albukerk (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!

Levi Friedman (Crown Heights) to Devorah Eckhaus (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at The JCM Second Floor
Baby Boy!

Yisroel and Miriam (née Haberman) Cohen from Remsen Village had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shabtai Dyce (Sydney, Australia) to Chana Matusof (Rome, Italy) L’Chaim: Tuesday, Sept. 1st, 8:00pm at The Arches 1394 St. Johns Pl
New Engagement!

Shalom Dovber Baruch (Crown Heights) to Esther Hadassa Melamed (Chemed, EY)
New Engagement!

Levi Sandberg (Los Angeles, CA) to Chaya Lewis (Bowdon, England) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at The Shull 481 Albany Ave
New Engagement!

Shmuly Borenstein (Crown Heights) to Rachely Baitch (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 7:00pm at Eshel
New Engagement!

Yossi Rubinstein (Crown Heights) Devorah Leah Gorman (London, UK)
Baby Boy!

Shaiky and Chana (nee Alroy) Slopochnik from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 425 Kingston Ave.
Baby Girl!

Yankel and Chaya Mushka (nee Katzman) Raskin from Ellenville, NY had a baby girl!
Baby Girl!

Mendel and Sara Perlstein from Norwood Park, IL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendy Dubov (Orlando, FL) to Rochel Croitoru (Coral Springs, FL) L’Chaim: Thursday, August 27th, 8:30pm  at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
New Engagement!

Shmuli Cunin (Los Angeles, CA) to Musi Krichevsky (Russia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
by Naftali Cohen

Left: Rabbi Tomer Rotem. Right: Dani Dinur.

The man who kidnapped the Shliach to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer Rotem, is now claiming that he was the victim of a Chabad conspiracy. Even more surprisingly, Israel’s Channel 10 News believes his story.

Shliach’s Kidnapper Convinces Media He Is the Victim

by Naftali Cohen

Left: Rabbi Tomer Rotem. Right: Dani Dinur.

The man who kidnapped the Shliach to Ecuador, Rabbi Tomer Rotem, is now claiming that he was the victim of a Chabad conspiracy. Even more surprisingly, Israel’s Channel 10 News believes his story.

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Op-Ed: Chabad 2.0

by Shmuley Boteach

Chabad Emissaries dance at the annual Kinus Hashluchim banquet.

The annual gathering of Chabad’s global emissaries, the Kinus Hashluchim, elicits a paradox. Here is an organization that is truly international, operating even more outposts than the United States government. Chabad is not only the world’s largest Jewish educational network, it is quite simply one of the world’s largest networks period. Perhaps only the Catholic Church has a more extensive grid of schools and educational outposts. Yet, for all its internationalism Chabad continues to evince a largely parochial mentality. It is global in scope but not in outlook.

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Op-Ed: Lessons from the Brutal Truth of Steve Jobs

by Shmuley Boteach – Algemeiner

Steve Jobs

In the early 90’s I fell in love with Steve Jobs’ new NeXT computer. I had used a Macintosh since I was 19 but after Jobs’ was kicked out of Apple I gravitated to his new invention which blew the Mac away. As Rabbi at Oxford, I regularly hosted world leaders to lecture to our students and I had to have Jobs. So I arranged a meeting with one of his top lieutenants and traveled to Redwood City, California.

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FEATURE: Bochurim Join OWS, the Satmar Rebbe; and a Special Story About the Rebbe on Tahalucha

‘Simchas Torah’ by Zalman Kleinman

A story about the Rebbe from a Litvish ‘Hoch Ah Chainik’ who used to live in Crown Heights, Bochurim who got lost in Manhattan get invited to join the Occupied Wall Street Hakafos and a closed Chabad House in Williamsburg leads a group to join the Satmar Rebbe for Hakofos in the main Shul on Kent Avenue. Read these readers experiences on Tahalucha!

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Film Depicts Jewish Children in Cantonist/Haskala Era

A riveting new film for women by Chabad Israeli filmmaker Tali Avrahami, The Fence (HaGader) is the intense and inspiring story of a Jewish family during a critical point in history. During the 1800s, the Jewish people were experiencing the devastating Cantonist practice of the Czars–which wrenched young Jewish boys away from their families to complete their childhood and young adulthood in the brutal Russian Army–coupled with the destructive enticements of the assimilationist Haskalah intellectual movement. The film’s message is timeless, and eerily relevant to the era we live in today.

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A Tribute: Michel Schwartz, 86

by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org

Famed artist Michel Schwartz poses in front of one of his signature works featuring a Hebrew script he developed.

Master of Hebrew calligraphy Michel Schwartz, who was cherished for his big heart as much as for his creative art, passed away at the age of 86. His work adorned the walls and tables of Israeli presidents and prime ministers, but for Schwartz, whose biggest projects included illustrating promotional and educational materials on behalf of the educational arm of Chabad-Lubavitch, the greatest honor was to ignite another Jew’s interest in Judaism.

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The Ultimate Rebellion

by Rucheli Manville

The Anniversary Banquet at Mayanot

There was once a young man. He was raised in a good home filled with positive influences. He had the best education in a great community. His parents set him on a straight path towards success, but he had his own ideas of what he wanted from life. And so the downward spiral began. He started indulging in the “pleasures” of life… He demanded meat; he started drinking more wine than normal. His parents tried to curb his newly-formed habits and give him life advice, but to no avail. He declined to listen to them, and worse, he demanded that they fund his selfish habits! No matter what his parents did, he refused to turn his life back around. Left with no other choice, his parents are instructed by the Torah to bring him before the Beis Din (Jewish court) to have him sentenced to death. A tragic ending to what could have been such a promising life…

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My Time at a Hasidic Boys’ Camp

by Perry J. Greenbaum

The boys and their counselors gather in front of “770” for a memorial service called Gimmel Tammuz: As the Chabad-Lubavitch website puts it: “The anniversary of passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory.

For the better part of July, my wife and I and our two youngest children were at a Hasidic camp for boys. My wife was employed there for the month as a camp nurse, and our oldest boy, aged nine, was there attending camp for the first time at a sleep-away camp. (I did some writing, working on my novel.) It was a good trial to see if he would like it. Actually, we weren’t far from him, but he was still in a bunk with other boys his own age. We were curious and slightly nervous how well he would fit in with the other boys, who were outwardly more religiously observant than our family was.

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Remembering The Riots: 20 Years Later

By Tamar Adelstein for Ami Magazine

I fought for my family’s safety in a community under fire

Cowering in a tiny, windowless bathroom with my children, in a state of terror, I cried out to my dear, departed mother. “Sarah Basha bas Reb Shimon, save us!” I could hear the shouts of the mob outside…. How had an ordinary Monday evening in Brooklyn, New York in 1991, turned into Russia of the 1800s? There we were, a Jewish family fearing for our lives as the mobs outside our front door ran wildly through the streets, calling for our death.

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Daily News

The Rev. Al Sharpton's recent reflections on the Crown Heights riots were egregiously sanitized.

On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton gave his version of what happened 20 years ago in Crown Heights. But although he purports to have reflected on and learned from the riots, the truth is his recollection is egregiously distorted and sanitized.

Yankel Rosenbaum’s Brother Sets the Record Straight About Al Sharpton

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The Rev. Al Sharpton’s recent reflections on the Crown Heights riots were egregiously sanitized.

On Sunday, Rev. Al Sharpton gave his version of what happened 20 years ago in Crown Heights. But although he purports to have reflected on and learned from the riots, the truth is his recollection is egregiously distorted and sanitized.

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Yid with Lid

Twenty years ago a tragic car accident in Crown Heights Brooklyn escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media gives it a politically correct description, violence between the area's Blacks and Jews. However the violence was not two-sided. The Crown Heights riot was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhood's Black community fueled in part by Al Sharpton, now an MSNBC host and adviser to President Obama.

Media Couldn’t Accept that Blacks Could Be Racist

Yid with Lid

Twenty years ago a tragic car accident in Crown Heights Brooklyn escalated into a pogrom against the Jewish people. The media gives it a politically correct description, violence between the area’s Blacks and Jews. However the violence was not two-sided. The Crown Heights riot was an attack on the Jews by the neighborhood’s Black community fueled in part by Al Sharpton, now an MSNBC host and adviser to President Obama.

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