To all those young people out there, this should be a lesson in not playing with fireworks. A Brooklynite decided to not follow this advise, shooting off the flaming rockets in his driveway until one flew into his home. When the Firefighters were finished,the home was completely destroyed.
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
On the 12th of Tammuz in 1927, the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was released from soviet imprisonment after being arrested for his activities in spreading Judaism across the USSR.
Around thirty years ago, I was in a bungalow colony with my father a”h , and during a farbrengen around Yud Beis Tammuz one of the men asked, “Reb Meir, you lived in Russia, you were imprisoned because you were a chassidishe Lubavitcher Jew. You lived through the arrest of the Frierdiker Rebbe and his liberation on Yud Beis – Yud Gimmel Tammuz, so to you Yud Beis Tammuz is relevant. But what mesiras nefesh does an American born Jew like me have? What does Yud Beis Tammuz mean to us?” Thus began a farbrengen, a younger chossid turning to an elder chossid for guidance and inspiration.
The Dutch parliament passed a number of motions that speak of the need to fight anti-Semitism. A draft motion calling for the government to pay for security around synagogues failed to pass, however.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended from Sunday, July 5th to Sunday, July 12th, 2020. Meters will remain in effect.
Decades after the Frierdiker Rebbe encouraged the daily study of an amud of Gemara, a group of Lubavitcher Londoners are starting a program to make it a reality.
Another shooting occurred in Crown Heights Thursday night, sending one man to the hospital with non life threatening injuries.
Rabbi Zvi Hershcovich, a Chabad Shliach in NDG, Canada who also performs standup comedy as Cholentface, has been producing weekly Parsha and comedy videos in order to teach his community about the Torah portion.
Gleaned from interviews and talks with R’ Nissan Mindel obm, a brief biography of his life and legacy is being published in honor of his Yartzet on the 12th of Tammuz.
The ninth installment in the Likkut Maanos Kodesh series has been released. The Likut covers the year 5744, and which includes 331 Maanos or answers from the Rebbe. Many of the maanos are printed here for the first time.
Gaza’s Interior and National Security Ministry has said that its security forces succeeded in discovering members of a cell working in Israel’s service.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe giving children coins to give tzedadakah before davening.
