In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he convincingly explains how a compassionate G-d can mandate a seemingly “inhumane” law – to annihilate an entire nation, Amalek. 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.
The generation gap grows wider and wider, but in the Jewish community of Venice & North Port, FL, one team of Chabad representatives might have found a way to fix that.
Wednesday evening, two thieves approached a UPS delivery truck on Albany Avenue and stole a package off the back of it.
A young couple walking along Albany Ave. between Lefferts and Empire Blvd. late last Thursday night, presumably after an evening of drinking, broke into the vehicle of a member of the Crown Heights community and stole an iPod.
Gumbo’s Bakery showcases its gargantuan Challahs, baked in anticipation of next week’s Purim festivities.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, who arrived in Moscow yesterday for a two-day state visit to Russia, was given a tour this morning of the Jewish Museum of Tolerance, which houses the previous Lubavitcher Rebbe’s library of Seforim that was confiscated by the Soviet Union.
A pickup truck caught fire outside a Chabad Jewish community center in Yonkers, NY, last night.
Superstar Lipa Schmeltzer and rapper Nissim Black pair up for their first time ever in a joint music video, lending their talents to The Bar Mitzvah Fund — an organization aimed to raise money for less fortunate families making Bar Mitzvahs.
For more than 40 years, Rabbi Shraga Faivel Rimler has served as the spiritual leader of the New Brighton Jewish Center in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in Brooklyn, in April of 2013.
