On Thursday, Chof Daled Elul, a moving community-wide challah bake took place at Bais Rivkah Lefferts in Crown Heights. Over 500 women gathered in a show of solidarity, praying for the protection of Eretz Yisroel and the safe return of the hostages. This event also marked the 50th anniversary of the Rebbe’s Mivtza Neshek campaign.
The Category 4 storm, which has already claimed 100 lives, made landfall on Thursday, sweeping through Florida and Georgia before ripping through North Carolina and continuing on through Tennessee, leaving a path of devastation in its wake.
“Irina!” I told her, “I would be so happy to learn with you, and I’m already so excited! I’m sure that you’re going to become a mother very soon!” Irina was interested in mikvah, but skeptical about my words. After all, her past experience had shown that she wouldn’t be able to have a child…” Read the rest of Irina’s story and more in this edition of EmBRace.
The long anticipated ground operation on the Lebanon border has begun, with Israel making the area a closed military zone and artillery bombarding Lebanese towns.
F.R.E.E. will be hosting a food distribution event in Crown Heights tonight, Monday September 30th, on President Street between Schenectady and Utica.
In a moving ceremony, a new Torah scroll was introduced to the local Chabad “Simcha” community in Kyiv Ukraine, in memory of the young boy, Yoel David Lanao OBM, who tragically passed away in a fatal car accident in Jerusalem.
Over a hundred older Bochurim have been hired to oversee designated groups of younger Bochurim, ensuring that each Bochur has proper chavrusos and receives the support they need. A dedicated website has been established for parents and Hanholas HaYeshiva to receive daily updates of all of the ongoings, and the participation of each bochur throughout the month.
With preparations beginning for the Kinus Hashluchim 5785, the Kinus Vaad has unveiled the theme for this year, the importance of the individual Mitzvah.
Hundreds celebrated the 43rd Annual Dinner of Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch/Chabad of South Broward Headquarters in a most joyous manner, this past Motzoei Shabbos Selichos.
