Police are searching for two groups of men who held up victims at gunpoint in Crown Heights this month, stealing jewelry and money. Both incidents occurred in broad daylight.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains how one small quarrel – the misunderstanding between Kamtza and Bar-Kamtza – could bring about the destruction of the Holy Temple and Jerusalem, as explained in the Talmud. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
I can get you to look my way. I can cause you to feel uncomfortable. I can compel you to feel you want to stare but you know it is rude to stare. It makes you feel awkward. I dress this way because I am a woman and women should not be oppressed – we are free to express ourselves through our way of dressing and you are committing a faux pas if you object. I can impress you with my clothes. Once you are impressed by me, I have power over you. I am a power dresser. I make my own choices. No one tells me how to dress.
Talented presenter and Sofer (and CGI-NY alumni) Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski bedazzled the campers of Gan Yisroel as they witnessed an informative presentation on the process of Tefilin making and writing, to help visualize what they’re studying in learning classes.
On the first day of Camp Gan Israel of Sweden – AKA Tze’irei Hashluchim-Europe – young Shliach Arye Segal of Baku, Azerbaijan celebrated his 11th birthday with fellow young Shluchim from around the world.
A group of Kfar Chabad residents, several of them members of a local ‘Shomrim’ volunteer group, packed up food, drinks, Tefilin, Shabbos Candles and brochures and headed out to the Gaza border to raise the spirits of the IDF soldiers stationed there with refreshments and good deeds.
CrownHeights.info reported earlier this week that The Lancet, a distinguished medical journal, after having published an anti-Israel diatribe, refused to publish a subsequent rebuttal written by three Israeli doctors.
The campers and Staff of Camp Emunah’s ‘Sunshine Bunk,’ a program for campers with special needs, received a surprise visitor yesterday.
A billboard several hundred feet wide was erected by Chabad in Tel Aviv, urging the Israeli populace to put on Tefillin (or have them checked) for the sake of the safety of the soldiers fighting Hamas in Gaza.
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