After the success of the Purim Farbrengen of 1973, which had over 100,000 viewers, a young Lubavitcher businessman was disturbed to learn that the Farbrengen release project, scheduled to last one year, was only several months away from ending.
The Rebbe draws water from a well outside 770, to be used for baking the Passover Matzos. From this weeks Living Torah.
Moishe Holtzberg, the four-year-old boy who lost his parents in the 2008 terror attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, is expected to light a torch together with his grandfather Shimon Rosenberg at the opening ceremony of Israel’s 63rd Independence Day festivities.
Pre-1a girls from Beis Rivkah visited the Jewish Childrens Museum model Matzah bakery ahead of Pessach. The girls learned all about baking Matzos.
A burglar broke into Albany Bakery on Kingston Avenue and spent a considerable amount of time in the store before making off with two safes and cash.
Rabbi Yechezkel Kornfeld of Seattle, along with his sons Rabbi Eli Kornfeld (Chabad of Hunterdon County) and Rabbi Shmuel Kornfeld (Chabad of Burbank) recently returned from Israel after their highly successful Israel Mission. The trip required dedication and resulted in a show of achdus among families, states, and countries.
Winds of uncertainty are blowing across the globe. A tsunami in Japan, renewed terrorist attacks in Israel, a middle-east – from Egypt to Libya, Syria to Yemen – in crisis. And the future remains unsure. Will the sun shine again? Will stability re-emerge after the storm dies down?
October 1973. On Yom Kippur Egypt launched a sudden attack on Israel, which by the skin of its teeth pushed back the enemy force and potential destruction. In the aftermath a doctor from Long Beach, California, asks: Why did this have to happen? Had Israel given back the lands, as promised after the Six Day War, could the Yom Kippur War have been averted?
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Avrohom Crawford, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
He is survived by his wife Suri, and his children.
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