It was the second night of Passover, and the evening prayers had just concluded at the Beis Menachem Mendel Synagogue in Donetsk, Ukraine. Hundreds of worshippers in this border city with Russia were milling around, waiting for the second night’s community Passover seder to begin.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Chaim Menachem Tiechtel, OBM, a veteran Chosid and member of the Chabad community in the holy city of Jerusalem.
A memorial to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s younger brother, R’ Dovber Shneerson, OBM, who was murdered by the Nazis YMS in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, was defaced with swastikas – the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the pro-Russian eastern half of the country.
Reb Yerachmiel Schneider is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, Shraga Feivish, OBM, at 1325 Union St. [corner New York Ave.] Apt. #3 until Thursday Evening. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
Menachem and Faigy (nee Schapiro) Schechter (Chicago, IL)
On a crisp September morning in 2001, terrorists hijacked and slammed two airplanes into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in Lower Manhattan. Just miles away, Rabbi Elkana Shmotkin, executive director of JEM (Jewish Education Media), was hard at work on a new project.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Brocho, circa mid 1980s.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday and Tuesday, April 21-22 for Passover. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
In honor of Yud Alef Nissan, the Rebbe’s birthday, nine Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of the Greater Toronto Area, bringing awareness of Pesach to thousands of Jews.
For a full month, each student of 7th and 8th grades of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. gained and achieved on his own level with personal Hachlotos in honor of the Rebbe’s birthday. As a celebration of their tremendous success, the Talmidim were treated with a visit to the largest Trampoline Park in the world.
At around 2:00am Shabbos morning, two Molotov cocktails were lobbed at a synagogue in Nikolayev, located in the southeast of Ukraine, amid rising tensions between the country’s ethnic Russians and the newly instated pro-western government in Kiev.
On Monday April 6, Mrs. Devora Caytak was among 46 Canadians who received the Governor General’s Caring Canadian Award for reaching out to others. Established in 1995 by then governor general Roméo LeBlanc, the award celebrates ordinary Canadians who do extraordinary things helping those in need.
Dovid Leib and Itty (nee Barber) Marasow
712 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Chaim and Aidel (nee Blau) Zaklos
852 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Dudi and Bella (nee Pinson) Alroy
1466 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Zushe and Chaya (nee Aizenman) Wilmowsky
1522 President St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
A notice was posted on the door of the main Synagogue of Donetsk, Ukraine, and similar flyers appeared elsewhere in the city, demanding that all Jews appear at the pro-Russian-rebel-controlled municipal headquarters to ‘register’ and pay a fee, or else they would be forcibly deported.
The familiar Pesach Seder melody ‘Danyenu’ gets a Far-East twist in this video, which was recently uploaded to YouTube.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe Davening Shachris on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1962.
About 120 men, women and children attended a Pesach Seder arranged by Chabad in Glasgow, Scotland. Running a Seder in Scotland is challenging, as the earliest time to start the Seder this year was 9:20pm! In light of this, the Seder schedule was adjusted to accommodate the late hour.
The Jewish community of Chevron celebrated ecstatically with 500 visitors, led by 60 Shluchim in a program organized by the JLI, as they welcomed a new Sefer Torah at the local Chabad Center.
Binyamin Murray grew up on a poultry farm in rural Connecticut, learning to hunt with a bow, and catch fish in lakes and rivers. Spiritually, the 2006 University of Vermont graduate has traveled a long way from his secular upbringing: He’s studying for rabbinical ordination at the Rabbinical College of America, aChabad institution in Morristown, N.J.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he addresses the issue concerning the inconsistency in the daily conduct of some frum individuals, which turns many people off from Torah. The reason is often misunderstood, and the Rebbe explains it with an interesting example. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
More than 400 people sang their way through the Haggadah on the first night of Passover at the Seder held at the Chabad House of Bangkok, Thailand.
The Israel National soccer team could be facing a possible World Cup ban, including other soccer sanctions, unless it alleviates travel restrictions and increases field access for Palestinian players and coaches.