Even as temperatures plummeted to record lows in the Chicago area, 200 people packed Lubavitch Chabad of Skokie, in Skokie, Ill., to feast on Moroccan delicacies, dance to a dizzying hybrid of Sephardic and Chassidic music, and hear words of inspiration from Rabbi Shlomo Moshe Amar, former chief Sephardic rabbi of Israel, the “Rishon Lezion.”
The funeral of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Scheersohn, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, took place outside his residence and synagogue, 770 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, on 11 Shevat, 5710 — January 29, 1950.
Hundreds of Anash and Temimim in Montreal gathered Wednesday night in the main hall of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva to celebrate the completion of the 32nd cycle of the Rambam and begin the 33rd.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe reaching out to touch the Paroches as he enters 770 for davening, circa 1970.
A stirring poem was written by Rabbi Pinchus Lipschultz in response to the horrific headline of the New York Post regarding the murdered Williamsburg Chasidic Jew Menachem Stark.
A few weeks ago the My Encounter team received a lead to interview an 80-year old woman who received a fascinating letter from the Rebbe in Adar I, 1951 – just 5 weeks after the Rebbe assumed the mantle of leadership of the Chabad Lubavitch Movement on 10 Shevat.
