Yeshivas Kayitz Yerushalyim completed their first year of operation with resounding success. Headed by Rabbi Yosef Avtzon and Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson, the program combined a good learning environment and farbrengens with incredible trips and travels across Eretz Yisroel.
The winner of the “Mikvah Mei Chaya Mushka Summer Raffle” for two round trip tickets to Israel and a five night stay at the Waldorf Astoria has been announced.
A Chof Av event that drew Anash from all over the world to Alma Atta, where the Rebbe’s father Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson z”l is buried, concluded with a lavish banquet.
Hatzalah agencies and divisions from across the east coast came together in Brooklyn Wednesday afternoon, to learn from each other. The event, hosted at Senior Care EMS’s Brooklyn Base, allowed for the agencies to see the different ambulances and equipment used across the agencies.
Rabbi Yisrael Dov Levanoni, 97, known for his scale model of the Beis Hamikdash he presented to the Rebbe, passed away on Wednesday, 20 Av, 5779.
Four rabbis—Yosef Aharonov, Shlomo Cunin, Yitzchak Kogan and Sholom Ber Levine—had been sent to Moscow by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, to bring the library of his predecessor, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, unlawfully being held by the Soviet government, back to its rightful place: the Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad-Lubavitch in Brooklyn, N.Y. This is the story of the KGB’s belated apology for the persecution and death of the Rebbe’s father.
As CGI Florida completed their 13th summer, the campers and staff posed for group and bunk photos.
Today, Chof Av, we enter the 40th year anniversary since the Rebbe established Kollel Tifereth Zekainim Levi Yitzchok – the Chabad Lubavitch Torah institute for Seniors. Est. on 20th of Menachem Av 5740/1980. To honor entering our 40th year, Kollel Tifereth Zekainim Levi Yitzchok is launching a grand campaign so that every man, woman and child, in honor of the 75th Hilulah of the Rebbe’s father can participate in spreading Yiddishkeit and chassidus to the thousands of Jewish seniors.
At a special Chof Av event in Alma Atta, with participants from across the globe, a farbrengen was held with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Shapiro, Rosh Yeshiva of Tomchei Temimim Miami, and Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky the Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch.
On Chof Av, the yartzeit of the Rebbe’s father, Reb Levi Yitzchak, a Pan Haklali was read at his Tzion in Alma Atta, Kazahkastan. The Pan was read by Rabbi Moshe Katlarsky, who flew in from New York special for the occasion.
Chabad.org will host a four-part online course on consecutive Tuesdays starting Aug. 20 titled R-E-S-P-E-C-T: The Commandment That Shapes the Parent-Child Relationship. Presented by Rabbi Raleigh Resnick, director of Chabad of the Tri-Valley in Northern California, the course will walk students through the reasons, parameters and ramifications of the Fifth Commandment, the requirement to honor parents.
The city of Alma Ata in Kazahkastan, the resting place of the Rebbe’s father Reb Levi Yitzchak Schneerson z”l, saw the influx of anash and Jews from across the globe who came to commemorate Chof Av, the date of his passing.
In an inspiring event, the Chabad Shteible at 41 Flood street, in Bondi, Sydney Australia, held this years first farbrengen for Chof Av. The Rebbe’s head Shliach to NSW, Australia, Rabbi Pinchus HaCohen Feldman, spoke at length about the great self sacrifice of Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbe’s father, and his own impressions from the amazing Kibbud Em the Rebbe had for his mother Rebbetzin Chana.
New Jersey’s right-to-die law just went into effect earlier this month but now a judge has halted it after a Bergen County doctor opposed it. Judge Paul Innes of Superior Court in Mercer County sided the opposition, and has issued a temporary restraining order on the law. Though not required to participate, doctors are required to refer patients to another doctor, which Smith said his client did not want to do.
Everyone in the Soviet Union knew what to do if you were arrested by the Secret Police: You shut your mouth, averted your gaze and tried to be inconspicuous. Everyone, that is, besides Leibel Mochkin, who died last week at the age of 95.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses prevention through education, with Dena Gorkin for the prevention 101 series. Dena Gorkin is the Director of Community Education for NCFJE’s Operation Survival, and founder and principal of Bnos Chomesh Academy high school for girls.
Over 100 friends and supporters join Bais Rivkah’s “Comedy Night at Sea” fundraiser. The event featured a lavish buffet catered by Boeuf and Bun, wine and an open bar by Wine by the Case, kumzitz with the amazing Yossi Lebowitz, and entertainment by comedian Ashley Blaker.
