This week we present a letter from the Rebbe to a Jewish psychologist who used meditation and ‘Zen’ to treat his patients. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
In what has become an annual rite of summer, the Sloatsburg Mincha Area will be reopening tomorrow night, giving Thursday night Catskills-bound travelers a convenient location to catch a minyan or grab a kosher snack.
Crying, Rena Ariel caressed the blue shroud covered body of her daughter Hallel Yaffa, 13, before uttering her final parting words, to the girl who had been a brilliant student and who loved to dance.
Two Israelis were stabbed in an apparent terror attack near the market in Netanya on Thursday evening. One of the victims, an Israeli man approximately 30 years old, is in serious condition and is receiving medical treatment. The other, a woman, is in moderate condition.
We may not all look the same, live in the same place or engage in the same level of religious observance, but deep down inside, the Jewish nation shares a common bond that unites us, that transcends distance and breaks boundaries. This is the message of “WeR1,” a music video starring Gad Elbaz, Refael Mirila, Alliel, Describe and Nissim, produced by Daniel Finkelman.
Teen leaders, Shluchim, Shluchos, and their children from around the world came together this weekend in the scenic Bushkill Inn and Conference Center for the 3rd annual CTeen Leadership Retreat and Kinus.
Hallel Yafe Ariel, a 13-year-old girl, was stabbed repeatedly and later died of her wounds in a terror attack this morning,June 30, in the bedroom of her home in Kiryat Arba, Chevron.
While Chabad on Campus is best known for servicing virtually every university in the United States, it is very much an international movement. That fact was on marked display at the Celebration of Jewish Life on Campus Dinner, which took place on the first evening of the Chabad on Campus Kinus in Stamford, Connecticut.
Mr. Alter Volner was the executive director of ITIM news agency from 1976 until the early 1990s. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Israel in December of 2011.
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