Congregation Ahavas Moische in Crown Heights, commonly known as The Maple Street Shul, will be holding their annual Melave Malka this weekend.
Scheduled for Motzoei Shabbos, February 12, 2011, at 8:30 PM, the event will celebrate the synagogue’s survival amid years of hardships.
“We got the building in bad shape,” says Eli Blachman, who has been the Shul’s President since 5734 with the blessings of the Rebbe and Rabbi Zalman Shimon Devorkin OBM.
“The Rebbe sent us $50 membership too,” he proudly notes.
Being located on the borders of Crown Heights, with majority of the neighbors non Jews, was a challenge in itself.
“I used to stand on the corner of Lefferts Avenue and Albany and beg people to fill our Minyan,” Blachman recalls.
Upon finding gun shots fired at the Shul following the 1991 riots, they dedicated a room to Yankel Rosenbaum HY”D who was murdered that August.
When Blachman hesitated organizing the Melave Malka, “the Rebbe told me that I must do something. Even small, but don’t stop it.”
Blachman, Chairman of the Board Yisroel Karp and Gabboim Yanky Blachman, Mendel Leverton and Yanky Rotenberg invite the crowd to join.
The guest speaker will be Rabbi Aron Raskin, Shliach in Brooklyn Heights and Rov of Congregation Bnei Avrohom. Musical entertainment by Yisroel Wedyger accompanied by Benshimon.
Suggested donation: $36.
Learn how to Help the Shul – HERE
Wish I could be there. Best regards to all my friends!
Thank you Mendy Leverton for all your input for this Melave Malka & all year around !
Yes Yanky Rotenberg has singlehandedly put this all together.Please come and show your support and also donate whatever you can afford to give…
EVERYONE IS INVITED, THE WHOLE COMMUNITY!
Women are absolutely invited
PLEASE COME
Are women also invited?
This entire Melava Malka is being put together by Yanky Rottenberg. It’s wonderful that you mention the board members who invite people to come – but they are not the ones who worked day and night for the past month to put this thing together. Thank you Yanky!!