In this weeks letter, The Rebbe addresses the question of astrology and horoscope in Jewish life. Seeing as the culture of Mitzrayim was steeped in the ways of astrology, horoscope, stargazing and the like, we need clarity on the Jewish outlook regarding these. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Over 1,000 members of Anash and student of Oholei Torah took part in the Levaya for Reb Mendel Morosov OBM, who passed away at the age of 101 and was the eldest Chabad chossid and beloved Mashpiah. The Levaya passed in front of the school, to which he dedicated 60 years of his life, then passing by 770 and on to the cemetery.
Ahead of the upcoming International Conference of Shluchos, the organizers have announced that Mrs. Mariashi Groner of Charlotte, North Carolina, will be delivering the keynote address at the Gala Banquet.
Over two hundred descendants (“Tzetzoim”) of the Alter Rebbe, gathered for the yearly Melava Malka in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in a wonderful atmosphere of family, dedication and inspiration.
Rabbi Fishel Jacobs is a speaker, author and the head responder for numerous websites dealing with issues of family purity. He has previously served as an officer in the Israeli army, a rabbi in the prison service, and as the Chabad campus rabbi at Tel Aviv University. He was interviewed in May of 2014.
Ten years after terrorists killed close to 170 people and injured hundreds more in a series of attacks throughout the city of Mumbai, Moshe Holtzberg—the only child of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg, who were murdered in their Chabad House—was joined by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to unveil the plans for a state-of-the-art Living Memorial at the Nariman (Chabad) House, that commemorate all victims of the attacks.
