Gimmel Tammuz was a few months away, but for the Yaldei Hashluchim in South and Central America and Spain as well, the preparations were well underway. The boys and girls who live hundreds of miles away from a well-established community spent once-a-week learning online about Chasisishe Inyonim as it pertains to a Chossid.
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In honor of Yud Bais/Yud Gimmel Tammuz – the birthday and day of liberation of the Frierdiker Rebbe, we share the now well-known story of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s interrogation by the GPU in 1921.
A CrownHeights.info reader sent us this photo of a bag of carrots he was about to purchase in a Shop-rite supermarket located upstate. They label states that they come from Israel, which bears serious Halachic complications as this is a Shmittah year, and all fruits and vegetables grown in the Holy Land must bear a reliable Hechsher asserting that all laws of Shmittah have been kept.
Security cameras at Chabad of Mt. Olympus, CA, show two individuals vandalizing a Hyundai Sonata belonging to Rabbi Sholom Rodal at 2:00am Wednesday morning, June 24.
Today, all the Crown Heights boys’ day camps got together for a special acrobat show, which took place in the Oholei Torah ‘Zal.’
A group of 12 boys from Cleveland were headed to the Catskills, reportedly to Camp Kaylie. Around two hours after leaving Cleveland they smelled gas in the vehicle.
The Shliach to Hartford, Connecticut, Rabbi Yosef Gopin, arrived in Moscow for a special visit, during which he led several inspiring and uplifting Farbrengens for the local Jewish community in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
At Jerusalem’s Kraft Stadium yesterday, Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, director of the ‘RAP’ Yeshiva, put on Tefilin with Ron Mix, a Jewish pro-football player and NFL hall-of-famer. Though open and proud of his Jewish identity, it was Mix’s first time ever having done the Mitzvah.
People who buy health insurance through state exchanges established by the federal government will remain eligible for subsidies, the Supreme Court ruled Thursday.
Rabbi Leibel Bistritzky was the proprietor of a kosher food store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and an early pioneer of the medical emergency volunteer response organization Hatzalah. He passed away in 2013 at age 86. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project once in 2005 and again in 2006.
