Beis Rivka Day Camp ended last week with a hop, skip, and bounce as campers jumped on huge bouncing balls, Jewish music, and live entertainment after enjoying a delicious BBQ! Each day of camp began with warm greetings from chayusdikeh counselors, was filled with a whirlwind of fun, and ended with smiles and hugs.
Three people were wounded in a Crown Heights shooting on Thursday night, and one of the bullets struck the campaign office of state Sen. Jesse Hamilton, on Crown Street.
In the beginning of this weeks parsha, the Torah instructs us that the first born son is to receive a double portion. Then the possuk states, this applies even if the man had two wives and by both of them their first child was a boy. However, the man loves the second wife more than the first and he desires to bequeath the double portion to the son of the wife he loves over the firstborn of his first wife.
On Sunday, 17 Menachem Av, Chabad of Greensboro hosted a kinus for the Southern Region. Shluchim traveled from Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
If only we would have a greater clarity of the blessings, with which we wish to be blessed this upcoming year, we would just have had some closer experience in sensing them, wouldn’t we then be able to create the proper environment for the fulfillment of these blessings?
JLI presents its unique new two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. Tree Talk: How to bless someone who has everything.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe clapping during a farbrengen.
In a heart-rending and emotional video Rabbi Nosson Blumes of Crown Heights shares his story of being lead to make a great personal sacrifice – donating his kidney, to save the life of another. “If you could save somebody, save a family from such a tragedy… how could you not do it?” he asks.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yitzchok Tsap, the video director at JEM, responsible for weekly Living Torah content, as well as directing feature productions, will lead a deliver a behind the scenes look at the upcoming JEM film, “Armed” – the story behind the launch of the Rebbe’s Tefillin campaign.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Ki Teitzei. This week he answers the question: Why do we have to Disconnect to Re-connect? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
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