Mivtziom Encounter in LA: A Bar Mitzvah at the age of 86!

By Zalman Dubinsky

Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman with Velvel (Bill).

LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — For weeks Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman, students in Yeshivas Ohr Elchanan Chabad in Los Angeles, would go into a furniture store and drop off a weekly L’chaim pamphlet by the elderly man, in his mid-to-late eighties, by the desk. “The man you’re looking for is not here” he said every week. “I’ll give it to the owner” he says making sure to show that he wouldn’t read it.

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Counting Down to Total Immersion Summer Camp

By Dvora Lakein for Lubavitch.com

Snow still covers the campground on Perch Lake Road, but for Rabbi Yitzchok Steinmetz, summer is already underway. The director of Camp L’man Achai has been gearing up for the camp season since October and now finds himself in a flurry of applications. The camp, which recently earned ACA accreditation, offers a unique niche in a world where there are camps to fill every interest.