About an hour before Shabbos, a pickup truck traveling down Union Street lost one of its wheels and went smashing into three parked cars, injuring its driver and a man who was saying Tehillim in one of the parked cars.
As we reported earlier this week, Rabbi Rick Jacobs, the president of the Union for Reform Judaism, attended the grand banquet of the Kinus Hashluchim as a guest of Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky. As the JTA’s Ben Harris noted, this is likely the first time that the leader of America’s Reform movement has attended this annual event.
On Rosh Chodesh Kislev (November 4), OK Kosher Certification held its annual Mashgiach Conference at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Brooklyn, NY. Over 150 OK personnel and mashgichim were in attendance, including many from around the world.
We all know that man is a complex creature; inherently schizophrenic. We don’t need to take a course in psychology to be cognizant of man’s inner discord. Regardless of psychological reasons and explanations, man’s natural tug-and-pull is an everyday fact of life.
This Shabbos at the Besht, a lecture will be delivered by guest speaker Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a family after Maariv near the entrance to his study, circa mid 1970s.
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