Daily Archives: July 20, 2005

Todays Daily News

Rabbi Moshe Binyomin Kaplan OBM

With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Moshe Binyomin Kaplan of Jerusalem and father of Rabbi Nochem Kaplan – Crown Heights, Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan – Shliach to Baltimore, MD and Mrs. Cherry Ulman – Jerusalem. He was 85.

The Levaya will take place Wednesday afternoon in Jerusalem.

R. Moshe Binyomin was a prominent member of the Crown Heights community and was a Baal T’filah at the Rebbes Shul 770 for Shacharis on Yomin Noraim, he moved to Yerushalayim a few years ago.

Thief Cought Red Handed In 1414 And Resisted Arrest

At about 3:00 AM when all the Bochurim were still at Farbrengens, a thief went around into rooms and took money.

Then some Bochurim noticed what was going on they tried to stop the guy but couldn’t control him so Shomrim were called and they couldn’t hold the man either so the cops were called and they managed to control him and arrest him.

Reb Yoel Farbrenged with Kvutzeh Bochurim

In honor of the Chag Hageulah of the Frierdiker Rebbe on Yud Bais-Yud Gimmel Tammuz Reb Yoel Kahan Farbrenged with Bochurim.

Remembering The Struggle for Russian Jewry

Seventy-eight years ago today, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn (1880-1950), sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and the leader of Russian Jewry at the time, was freed from Soviet-imposed exile.

The date was 12 Tammuz, corresponding to today’s date, which is celebrated widely by Chabad and Jewish communities as an important watershed in the history of Jewish life in Russia.

Rabbi Joseph I. Schneersohn was targeted by Soviet authorities for his activism on behalf of Jewish education and Jewish religious and communal life. He was the only Jewish leader who chose to remain in Russia following the communist revolution, and built a network of underground yeshivot and a Jewish support system that functioned clandestinely through all the years of communism.

At grave risk to himself and to his Chasidim, Rabbi Schneersohn thus kept the moribund embers of Jewish life alive. In 1927, he was arrested in his home in Leningrad, on accusations of counter-revolutionary activities. He was sentenced to three years in exile and sent to the isolated townlet of Kostroma in central Russia.

At rallies around the world, crowds call on Israel not to leave Gaza Strip

NEW YORK, July 19 (JTA) – For Mendy Lieder, a student at a Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva in Detroit, stopping Israel’s upcoming withdrawal from the Gaza Strip is a political and religious obligation.

“Our brothers are being taken out of their homes,” said Lieder, 18. “We need to be with them, praying to God.”

“America and England aren’t withdrawing their troops from Iraq,” he added. “Why should we?”

Similar sentiments were on full display Tuesday in a rally in Manhattan’s Times Square, where Lieder joined more than 1,000 people, including many students, to voice their opposition to the Israeli government’s plan to evacuate Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and northern West Bank.