In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the importance of getting married early on, even if the young couple is not yet financially independent. 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.
Fourth grade teacher Rabbi Chaim Lipsycz brought a miniature ‘Shofar factory’ to Cheder at the Ohel. He demonstrated to all the boys how a shofar is made.
Rabbi Shalom Baumgarten of Tzivos Hashem is interviewed by News 12 inside Kingston Avenue’s Chocolatte in advance of Rosh Hashanah.
What happens when Jew in the City (JITC) star Allison Josephs finds herself in a Dr. Seuss-like world with reality TV star Ethan Zohn? A charming and inspirational video for the high holidays, titled “Green Eggs, No Ham!”
A minivan parked on Troy Ave. between Eastern Parkway and Lincoln Pl. was broken into this morning. The thief made off with a pair of Tefilin that were inside the vehicle, though, oddly, he left the Tefilin bags behind.
The administrators of Yeshivah College-Beth Rivkah, the Chabad boys’ and girls’ schools in Melbourne, which together boast over 1,300 students, have announced the implementation of a ‘capped-fee’ system, ensuring that no family pays more than 8-18% of their income in tuition, no matter how many children they have enrolled at the schools.
It has already become a tradition in Brussels for hundreds of diplomats, ambassadors, parliamentarians, and public figures to gather each year for cocktails just before Rosh Hashanah.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely death of Marvin Fruchter, a part-owner of Apple Drugs on Kingston Avenue and beloved member of the Crown Heights community, though he lived in Plainview, NY. He was 61 years old.
There’s a story told about a great pious Rabbi who was becoming deaf in his old age. His students could not understand “why is this happening to you, a man who has spent his whole life studying and teaching the Holy Torah”. They felt that Zechus should protect him from ailment. “What can I say… I sinned in my youth and now Hashem is helping me atone for those mistakes”. He explained that as a young prodigy he was very well versed in Choshen Mishpat and would sit in on many Din Torahs, “but I lacked maturity and succumbed to the temptation of bribery.”
With nearly 400 years of Jewish settlement, Jamaica is poised to turn a new leaf in the annals of its Jewish history, with the arrival of its first-ever permanent Chabad emissary couple.
Rabbi Elie Estrin, who just recently became the U.S. Air Force’s first bearded chaplain, has now moved on to piloting a ‘tank’ – of the Mitzvah variety – at the University of Washington (State), where he serves as director of Chabad on Campus.
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