ULYOP ‘Lights Up’ Lutheran Hospital
Students in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway brought the light of Chanukah to Yidden who unfortunately were unable to spend the holiday with their family and friends.
Students in United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway brought the light of Chanukah to Yidden who unfortunately were unable to spend the holiday with their family and friends.
Mivtzoim is for everyone, even young children, on the third day of Chanukah, Ohalei Torah’s second grade; Rabbi Filler’s class went to Roosevelt Island Senior Association to bring the joy of Chanukah to the members.
Shmarya Shusterman found an nice surprise on his weekly Mivtzoim route, a 103-year-old Jew who did not put on Tefillin in “a very long time”.
Three lives were claimed by a rocket fired by Arab terrorists, destroying the top floor apartment of a building in Kiriyat Malachi, Israel. A beacon of light was placed in the location of such great pain and suffering.
Marking 200 years to the Histalkus of the Alter Rebbe, Bochurim in Miami Mesivta have participated in a Mivtza run by the Talmidei HaShluchim. The emphasis of the Mivtza was Chassidishe Hanhogos; Mivkah, Chitas, Rambam, Seder Sichos, learning Perek Mem Alef before Davening.
The Or Lachayal organization, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Ofen, went with volunteers to the south of Israel near the Gaza border to elevate the morale of the IDF soldiers stationed there.
In light of the situation in The Land of Israel in recent days, and following the Rebbe’s call during the 1967 War to add in Mitzvos – specifically reaching out and putting on Tefillin with Jews who would otherwise not, Bochurim from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ headed out this Friday to Rutgers University to do Mivtzoim with the newly formed “Rutgers Jewish Outreach” – a program of Chabad of New Jersey.
“Kevin, got 30 seconds?” The question is barely out and Kevin’s sleeve is rolled up and Rabbi Dovid Haller begins to wrap up his latest customer. Kevin is not alone; over the last 3 years, Rabbi Haller has wrapped up more than 40,000 men single-handedly.
Ten Sukkah mobiles, with 20 Bochurim aboard (two in each), descended upon central Paris during Chol Hamo’ed Sukkos. They performed the Mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog with over 500 Jews.
Just heading into the year of Bar Mitzvah, the boys of seventh grade at Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. proved that they are not too young to conquer New York City – with their sets of Lulavim and Esrogim and mobile Sukkahs.
Two Bochurim from Bal Harbour, Dovid Labkowski and Pesach Gewirtz, went on Chol Hamoed to the nearby Aventura Mall – the largest mall in Florida – to help Jews perform the Mitzvah of Lulav and Esrog. They were greeted with much enthusiasm, and over 150 people opted to partake in the Mitzvah.
Each day of Chol Hamo’ed, under the auspices of the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, hundreds of Bochurim would take to the streets all over New York City, armed with mobile Sukkahs and sets of Arba Minim, looking for Jews who are willing to perform the Mitzvos of Yomtov.
In the merit of a speedy recovery for Emanuel ben Yenta and L.E.C. student Miriam bas Chana Tova, LEC students have pledged a Sukkos holiday of ahavas Yisroel—love for their fellow Jews. No stranger to projects of this sort, the students of Lubavitch Elementary School are taking their goal this year to the next level. Their pledge is to help at least 6,000 local residents fulfill the mitzvah of lulav and esrog and eating in a sukkah.
More than 100 members of Anash gathered this past motzei Shabbos for a special farbrengen and Melava Malka at the home of Rabbi and Mrs. Moshe Kugel to conclude a year full of growth in the Rebbe’s mivtzoim and strengthen each other for the upcoming year.
A new Chabad Tefillin app has strapped itself into a spot on Israel’s Top 30 Apps in the education category, with similarly impressive positions on the top 100 lists of France, Ukraine and South Africa.
Last Friday was the finale of the JCC Maccabi Games in Memphis, Tennessee. The games lasted five days with over 1,250 young Jewish athletes and several thousand guests who came from across the United States, Canada, Mexico and Israel.
Junior Shluchim Shaina and Dovid Gutnick went along with their father to give out Shabbos candles and put on teffilin with other Jews in honor of Gimmel Tammuz in Boca Raton, FL. One man they met was 91 years old, and had never put on teffilin before, so they celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah right in the middle of Costco!