Erev Shabbos Yisro Around Crown Heights

Photos: Shalom Ross/Anash.org
Photos: Shalom Ross/Anash.org

The streets and shops of Crown Heights were full on Friday as residents and guests prepared for Shabbos Parshas Yisro – Shabbos Mevorchim Adar Rishon. Plus: Shalom Zachar list.

Picture of the Day

Achdus between chassidim: At a l’chaim in Crown Heights on Tuesday night, an animated conversation took place between Harav Yosef Braun, Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, Rabbi Gedalya Shemtov, Rabbi Dovid Nachshon, and R’ Moshe Pinson.

Who Says Kaddish For the Rebbetzin?

Cape Town Shliach Rabbi Oshy Deren writes ahead of Chof Beis Shvat: “At a Farbrengen last week for my birthday with some friends in Johannesburg the question was raised – who says Kaddish for the Rebbetzin?”

Rabbi Shmuel Katan, 85, AH

Rabbi Shmuel Katan, who survived the Holocaust and went on to be a devoted chossid of the Rebbe who worked as a chemist and for the Israeli Air Force, and was a talented musician who performed in front of the Rebbe, passed away.

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