In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the topic of Chinuch, in which he outlines three basic points and guidelines for the successful upbringing of one’s children. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
A state-of-the-art Chabad educational center will soon rise in the Highland Lakes neighborhood in Northeast Miami-Dade County, Florida.
A snow alert has been issued for the five boroughs ahead of an overnight storm that’s expected to affect the Friday morning commute, the New York City Department of Sanitation said.
This past week, the weekly women’s discussion group at the Levi Yitzchak Library hosted Crown Heights professional organizer and owner of Home Refined Shayna Cohen.
Catch a glimpse behind the scenes of the The Rebbe’s Nigunim vol. 1 with 8th Day. The film is due to be released later this month.
Over the weekend of Chof Beis Shvat a Kinus for young women ran parallel to the Kinus Hashluchos with programming specific for still unmarried young women. One of the highlight sessions was given by Rabbi Shea Hecht titled “13 Secrets of Successful Dating” in dealing with today’s Shidduch crisis.
Prosecutors fighting to keep the accused murderer of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, Deandre “Big Boy” Charles, behind bars before the trial begins, argued during a bond hearing Wednesday that they found the rabbi’s DNA inside a getaway vehicle they linked to the crime scene.
Walking up to the guard booth at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Ulpan Etzion, a venerable Hebrew-teaching facility, Rabbi David Sterne informed the guard that he had been invited by a group of students to deliver a Torah lesson – only to be told that orders from above prohibited him from setting foot there.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rochel Baum OBM a resident of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. She was 77 years old.
Israeli police said two 13-year-old girls from Israel’s Arab minority stabbed and lightly wounded a security guard in a town near Tel Aviv on Thursday and were arrested.
A fan of Avraham Fried’s music, who describes himself as no-longer religious, wrote a heartfelt letter to the Chasidic singing star describing how his music still brings meaning to his life, and that he cannot bring himself to play his CDs on Shabbos. Avraham Fried responded by revealing who was behind the now-ubiquitous message on all his albums “please do not play on Shabbos and Yom Tov.”
The head Shliach to Alaska, Rabbi Yosef Greenberg, delivered an invocation to open a session of the United States Senate in Washington, DC, upon the invitation of Sen. Lisa Murkowski.
Rabbi Rafael Grossman spent most of career in the rabbinate as the head of Baron Hirsch Synagogue in Memphis, Tennessee, where he led the largest Orthodox congregation in the United States. He is presently Senior Rabbi Emeritus. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in January of 2012.
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