The raffle for Levi’s Torah, in memory of Levi Yitzchak Wolowik a”h, was held today, with ten winners announced. Over ten thousand lines of Tanya were learnt and thousand raised towards the Torah.
PARIS, France [CHI] — Family and students of Rabbi Nisson Pinson OBM completed and dedicated a new Sefer Torah which was written in his memory. The event took place in Beis Chaya Mushka in Paris.
There is a young boy in Sydney, Australia, named Asher Tzvi Shalom. Like many boys at the tender age of three, Asher refused to wear his tzizis. One day he came home and told his parents that he had changed his mind. Why? He answered, “Because of my teacher, Morah Rochel. Today I wore tzizis and Morah Rochel was so proud of me. It makes her really happy and I will do it every day from now on.”
TZFAT, Israel [CHI] — Over the past 6 weeks the girls of Seminary Chaya Mushka of Tzfat have participated in an intense Hachana for Yud Tes Kislev and Chaf Daled Teves. The Hachana – designed to strengthen Hiskashrus to the Rebbe and amass more knowledge of Chassidus – succeeded beyond expectations.
Chanukah has come and gone. For some of us, the days flew by in a whirlwind of celebration and activity. But not for everyone. For Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, waiting patiently in an Iowa jail while a court of appeals weighs a judge’s decision not to grant him bail, time seemed to be crawling.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The Police Department has been under scrutiny over the past couple years, after being accused of ‘losing’ reports. Interested in keeping the crime statistics down officers were pressured by their superiors to ‘lose’ the reports.
With sadness we report the untimely passing of Mrs. Chedva Fraida Teichman OBM, of Tveria, after a devastating illness.
Mrs. Teichman is survived by her husband Rabbi Berel, children R. Yosef Yitzchok, R. Yisroel and R. Shmuel of Crown Heights, R. Mendel (Uzhgorod, Ukraine), R. Schneur (Tzfas) Mrs. Chani Klein (Kiryat Gat), Mrs. Tova Jacobowitz (Boro Park), Mrs. Rochel Niselevitz and Mrs. Devorah Laya Lipsker (Nachlas Har Chabad), Mrs. Miri Lider (NY) and siblings.
The levaya will leave from the Rambam’s kever in Tveria at 1:00 p.m., continuing to the Chabad chelka in Tzfas. Shiva will be observed at the Teichman home, 9 Alchadif Street, Tveria.
Telephone for overseas nichum aveilim: 011-972-4-6791435
Boruch Dayan Hoemes
The metal signs are impossible to miss. They are oversize, in a bold blue usually found on signs directing drivers to the nearest hospital. And there are lots of them — 13 in all, according to the city’s count — along a quarter-mile stretch of roadway and its approaches.
Media buzz about the writing of a new Torah scroll in the ancient synagogue atop the Judean Desert fortress of Masada brought a bevy of new visitors, including a squadron of Israeli Air Force pilots, to see the work in progress.
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