Four local Lubavitcher couples have been nominated for the Jewish Federation of Rockland County’s Rockland Jewish Hero Contest. The first place winner will be announced at the Federation’s annual dinner and will receive a $1,000 monetary prize and be listed as “Hero of the Year” on the Federation website.
Rabbi Moshe Elye Gerlitzky, who fled from the advancing Nazi armies of war-torn Europe to find refuge in Canada and establish a Jewish educational network on the country’s Atlantic coast, passed away April 4 at the age of 94. One of the thousands of Holocaust survivors saved by the selfless acts of Japanese Consul Chiune Sugihara, Gerlitzky was the city of Montreal’s first full-time Jewish day-school teacher and, later in life, the oldest Chabad-Lubavitch emissary.
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan — Protestors clashing with riot police last Wednesday in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, left the small Jewish community in this Central Asian republic feeling particularly vulnerable and anxious, says Chief Rabbi and Chabad representative, Rabbi Arye Raichman.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a Beautiful Photo of the Rebbe from Kos Shel Bracha 1970. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
Today, Chof Ches Nissan marks 19 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. The Rebbe said with great pain “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!
Click Here To Listen To The Sicha (Courtesy of Sichos.com)
Knesset Member Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Rebbe: “Since we last met many things have progressed. What hasn’t changed, however, is that Moshiach hasn’t come. There are still a few hours left in the day, so try to bring him today!”
From the start, Internet users have taken for granted that the territory was both a free-for-all and a digital disguise, allowing them to revel in their power to address the world while keeping their identities concealed.
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Devorah Malkah bas Elisheva Sarah Rochel, a two year old in the hospital
Tovah Raizel Bas Nechama Dina a 7 year old girl in critical condition
Yisroel Dov ben Chana
Sholom Dovber ben Shifra a father of two young children fighting Yene Machla RL
Central synagogue in town of Mulhouse catches fire during Shabbat prayers. ‘Proximity to Holocaust Remembrance Day raises speculation; there is a very anti-Semitic atmosphere around,’ says Jewish resident
BUDAPEST, Hungary — Hungary’s Jewish community is keeping a wary eye on this Sunday’s national elections, in which a right-wing extremist group is expected to garner an unprecedented number of votes.
9
