Crown Heights, Brooklyn – At 7:45 this evening a fire broke out in the second floor of a Jewish home on Crown St. The incident began in a section of damaged wiring in the ceiling which caused a light bulb to suddenly exploded and instantly set fire to everything around it.
More pictures in the Extended Article.
It was forty years ago when the Rebbe initiated two days prior to the Six-Day-War a mass Tefillin campaign. The Boston Globe describes the campaign a few months later:
“Just before the outbreak of the war, an active campaign to push observance by Jewish males over 13 years of age to do the “mitzvah” of tefillin was launched by Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, the “Lubavitcher Rebbe” of New York–leader of a Hasidic sect with branches throughout the world.”
Rabbi Shmuel and his wife Henna (nee Haber) Kopel and their daughter will IYH moving on shlichus to North Shore, Sydney, Australia,
They will establish a center for Adult Education as part of the new shluchie mivtza torah initiative spreading Yiddishkite and the Ma’ayonos.
They were appointed by Rabbi Nuchum Schapiro and will be working through his Chabad House.
We would like to thank all those who assisted in this shlichus especially the Rohr family, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky and Rabbi Ephraim Mintz.
The new Shluchim can be reached via e-mail at shmulykopel@gmail.com
Chicago, IL — When Ethan Samuels clutches a freshly printed diploma in his hands in a few weeks, he will be among the tens of thousands of college students whose university years have been shaped through involvement in Chabad-Lubavitch on campus.
Glastonbury, CT — These are very exciting times for the Greater Hartford Jewish community. For the thousands of families of all denominations touched by Chabad’s activities, this is a true time of rejoicing. Construction for the all new, state-of the-art Bennett Rothstein Chabad Jewish Center in Glastonbury is all but complete.
More pictures in the Extended Article
Orlando, FL — When Rabbi Chaim and Rivkie Lipskier learned they would be co-directors of the new Chabad house at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, they were excited to start a permanent home together as emissaries, or shluchim, of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement. The husband-and-wife team had traveled to dozens of locations around the world to reach out to Jewish communities, and finally found their place in Florida.
Yeshivas Kayitz of Russia is pleased to announce their staff for this upcoming coming summer!
Head Counselor Yisroel Mogilevsky
Counselor Pinny Morozov
Counselor Moshe Perelmutter
Learning Director Meir Chaim Posner
Learning Teacher Yehishua Zelig Rivkin,
Learning Teacher Shmuli Shneur,
Learning Teacher Dovid Leib Perlstien
Pasadena, CA — This past Sunday, Chabad of Pasadena community members gathered at the park for a fun-filled day of games, food and schmoozing. The great weather and fine turn-out made this years Lag Ba’Omer event a truly memorable one. The community baseball game was lots of fun, with players ranging in ages from four years old to sixty years old. The kids enjoyed playing a wide variety of relay races as well as jumping on the most deluxe moon-bounce LA has to offer. An all-you-can-eat BBQ and some great snacks made this a truly enjoyable picnic…
Krasnoyarsk, Russia — Eight days after Rabbi Wagner and his wife Dina, welcomed a son, their child’s Brit Milah ceremony became part of local history and signified a growth of the community. This was the first ceremony in decades to follow all of the Jewish traditions associated with the ancient trdition and included over one hundred of their closest friends and family. The Chief Mohel of Russia, Dr. Ishaya Shafit, who came from Moscow, performed the bris. He had been to Krasnoyarsk before but only to perform the ceremony on two adults that decided to go through the ritual.
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