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Historic Photos & Moments – Marking 60 Years

Yud Shevat (the tenth of the Hebrew month of Shevat) marks the anniversary of the passing of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. For Chassidim today, however, the primary significance of Yud Shevat is that it is the day on which the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, accepted the reins of Chabad leadership 60 years ago.

In honor of 60 years CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a vividly powerful description of a memorable event that took place in 770 over 40 years ago: the completion of the “Sefer Torah to Greet Moshiach,” commissioned by the Previous Rebbe in 1942, and finally completed on the eve of Yud Shevat, which that year also happened to be Erev Shabbos. With special thanks to Rabbi Yossi Lew, Chabad emissary to Atlanta, Georgia, and Dean of the Atlanta Semicha Program.

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Baby Boy!

Leiby and Mushka Brikman from Montreal, Canada had a baby boy!
Baby Girl!

Mendy and Chaya (nee Laber) Shepard from Albany, NY had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Mendel Mergui (Paris, France) to Chani Galperin (Winsor, Ontario) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Rubashkins 1349 President street
New Engagement!

Arik Deren (Greenwich, CT) to Elkie Havlin (Dresden, Germany) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:30pm at Albany Manor 641 Rutland Rd
New Engagement!

Mendel Sternberg (New London, CT) to Devora Lea Amar (Seine Et Marne, France) L’Chaim: Thursday, Nov. 5th, 8:00pm at Anshei Lubavitch 578 Albany Ave
Baby Girl!

Uriel and Mushky (nee Dubov) Hillel from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
Baby Boy!

Dovid and Chaya (nee Gordon) Drizin from Los Angeles, CA had a baby boy!
New Engagement!

Shmuel Helman (Brazil) to Stella Washingston (Alpharetta, GA)
New Engagement!

Doniel Preston (Edgware, UK) to Chayale Russel (Edgware, UK)
New Engagement!

Dovi Borochov (Crown Heights) to Mirel Vogel (London, UK)
New Engagement!

Binyomin Beilin (Boston, MA) Rivkah Bracha Ross (Waterbury, CT)
Baby Girl!

Menachem and Sari (Nee Gottlib) Forer from Crown Heights/Hillside had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Dovi Zaetz (Crown Heights) to Hanni Ladayov (Paris, France)
New Engagement!

Levi Smith (N. Miami Beach, FL) to Chana Singer (Manchester, UK) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at 1349 President Street
Baby Girl!

Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
New Engagement!

Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
Baby Boy!

Menachem and Rivka (nee Kamnitzer) Rotenberg from East Flatbush had a baby boy! Sholom Zachor: 663 Lenox Rd

A Shtetl Divided

by Matthew Shaer

Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn

In the 1860s, when the architect Frederick Law Olmsted arrived in Crow Hill, he found a wasteland of balding farms and graying shale, pimpled by shantytowns and pools of pig excrement. The squalor alarmed Olmsted, and together with his partner, Calvert Vaux, he obtained a commission from the city to design Eastern Parkway, a wide, tree-lined boulevard that eventually connected the brownstones of Park Slope to the tenements of Brownsville and brought a semblance of modernity to the neighborhoods in between.

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Coming Soon to a Theater Near You: Animated Clay Rabbis

by Sara Trappler-Spielman – Chabad.org

The clay figure Dovid and his family are the central characters of “The Esrog,” an animated retelling of a story about the 18th century Chasidic master known as the Baal Shem Tov. (Photo courtesy Holy World Productions)

At a table surrounded by swaying bearded Chasids singing a wordless melody sits a rabbi dressed in white, his long white beard and white head covering completing the ensemble. He appears asleep, but is actually meditating, reaching the furthest mystical heights. His followers attempt to arouse him by singing louder and with more emphasis, but you can’t see his piercing blue eyes until a Jew named Dovid enters the room.

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The question that is on most people’s minds is “does a Rov of a Kehilla need Semicha, or not?” and it’s been a question that has been lingering and festering among many in the neighborhood. Rather putting this issue to bed, the Zabla Beis Din has remained mum on the topic.

So our researchers have gathered a collection of a Sicha, letter and a story upon which you can make your own informed decision.

Does A Rov of a Kehilla Need Semicha?

The question that is on most people’s minds is “does a Rov of a Kehilla need Semicha, or not?” and it’s been a question that has been lingering and festering among many in the neighborhood. Rather putting this issue to bed, the Zabla Beis Din has remained mum on the topic.

So our researchers have gathered a collection of a Sicha, letter and a story upon which you can make your own informed decision.

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by Frank Bruni - New York Times Magazine

Clara Santos Perez, left, the manager of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, tries to balance inclusion with strict religious customs that are not her own.

“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.

Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.

Keeping It Kosher

by Frank Bruni – New York Times Magazine

Clara Santos Perez, left, the manager of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, tries to balance inclusion with strict religious customs that are not her own.

“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.

Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.

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“Echoes of a Shofar” is the premiere episode in the “Eyewitness 1948” short film series produced by Toldot Yisrael and the History Channel. Since being posted less than two weeks ago, the video has been viewed more than 90,000 times on YouTube and is now available at the chabad.org video site, Jewish.TV.

Video – Heroic Shofar Blowers Video Goes Viral


“Echoes of a Shofar” is the premiere episode in the “Eyewitness 1948” short film series produced by Toldot Yisrael and the History Channel. Since being posted less than two weeks ago, the video has been viewed more than 90,000 times on YouTube and is now available at the chabad.org video site, Jewish.TV.

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NY Times

The wording on crime tape in Borough Park refers to Jewish patrols.

On Thursday night in Brooklyn, a suspect was chased and quickly surrounded by a group of patrolmen in blue uniform jackets who ordered him to halt.

In Protecting Hasidic Neighborhoods, Squads Patrol Without Guns or Badges

NY Times

The wording on crime tape in Borough Park refers to Jewish patrols.

On Thursday night in Brooklyn, a suspect was chased and quickly surrounded by a group of patrolmen in blue uniform jackets who ordered him to halt.

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The New York Times

Shais Rison, left, and Yitzchak Jordan are black Orthodox Jews, a rarity in New York and the nation.

In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as “monkeys” or with the Yiddish epithet for blacks. At synagogues and kosher restaurants, they engender blank stares. And dating can be awkward: their numbers are so small, friends will often share at least some romantic history with the same man or woman, and matchmakers always pair them with people with whom they have little in common beyond skin color.

Black and Jewish, and Seeing No Contradiction

The New York Times

Shais Rison, left, and Yitzchak Jordan are black Orthodox Jews, a rarity in New York and the nation.

In yeshivas, they are sometimes taunted as “monkeys” or with the Yiddish epithet for blacks. At synagogues and kosher restaurants, they engender blank stares. And dating can be awkward: their numbers are so small, friends will often share at least some romantic history with the same man or woman, and matchmakers always pair them with people with whom they have little in common beyond skin color.

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Morristown Shul Buys First Sefer Torah After 30 Years!

Rabbi Moshe Herson (BL), Dean Rabbinical College of America, Rabbi Moshe Klein (BR), Ezra Solomon (TL), President, Congregation Levi Yitzchok, Rabbi Zalmen Wilschanski (TR), Rabbi, Congregation Levi Yitzchok.

MORRISTOWN [CHI] — Many will be surprised to learn that after thirty years in existence, the community Shul of Morristown, Bais Hamikdash, Bais Haknesset, Congregation Levi Yitzchok, is still without its own Sefer Torah.

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Shaya Tenenbaum (L) and Yossi Goldstein.

In a column published in the Daily Freeman, sports writer Stan Fischler writes about his encounter with two Chabad Rabbis, Shaya Tenenbaum and Yossi Goldstein, who wanted to become sportscasters. He writes about how they helped each other with Judaism and sports journalism.

Rabbis have Great Love for Sports

Shaya Tenenbaum (L) and Yossi Goldstein.

In a column published in the Daily Freeman, sports writer Stan Fischler writes about his encounter with two Chabad Rabbis, Shaya Tenenbaum and Yossi Goldstein, who wanted to become sportscasters. He writes about how they helped each other with Judaism and sports journalism.

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By Dana Rubinstein for the New York Observer
The breakneck rise and fall of New York developer Shaya Boymelgreen unfolds like a Gilded Age novel of social ascendance: young man immigrates to ethnic neighborhood in big city; accidentally takes part in Crown Heights riot of historic importance; strikes up fortuitous friendship with Uzbek diamond billionaire who agrees to bankroll his projects; gambles on some of boom era's most talked about and coveted developments; and then, as quickly as he rises, disappears, lawsuits and angry creditors chasing his wake.

The Mogul, Lost and Found: Developer Shaya Boymelgreen in the City of Second Acts

By Dana Rubinstein for the New York Observer

The breakneck rise and fall of New York developer Shaya Boymelgreen unfolds like a Gilded Age novel of social ascendance: young man immigrates to ethnic neighborhood in big city; accidentally takes part in Crown Heights riot of historic importance; strikes up fortuitous friendship with Uzbek diamond billionaire who agrees to bankroll his projects; gambles on some of boom era’s most talked about and coveted developments; and then, as quickly as he rises, disappears, lawsuits and angry creditors chasing his wake.

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