Rabbi Mendel Yusewitz is a Mechanech, Magid Shiur, Director of ‘Machon Taharas Habayis’, and Menahel of Cheder Ohr Menachem in Crown Heights. He will be giving this week’s lecture titled “The blessing called Rambam.”
Major traffic arteries near – and running through – Crown Heights will be closed Sunday as thousands of runners will be jogging the streets of Brooklyn for a half Marathon.
This past Wednesday was the 28th of Nissan, 32 years since the Rebbe cried out in public and expressed his tremendous anguish (agmas nefesh) that Moshiach has yet to come. In that sicha, the Rebbe also informed us, that since he did whatever he could and yet, he didn’t succeed in bringing Moshiach, he is giving us the task and responsibility to do so.
When a young child with her father stood in line to get a dollar from the Rebbe, little would you know that a connection would be made that would last for years. 30 years after receiving an extra dollar, watch as this woman tells of her continued connection with the Rebbe.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman grapples with the troubling yet inspiring words of the Rebbe that “I did all that I can do to bring Moshiach, but I failed. The solution is, that I give over this mission to you, do all that you can, to bring Moshiach.”
A 51-year-old man has been arrested in the March attack on the Cape Coral Chabad Jewish Center that left the front door damaged and a cars windshield shattered.
A remarkable Torah from R’ Shlomo Zalman from Kapust explaining the Inyan of Negaim according to Chassidus and Kabbalah, has been published from manuscript for the first time.
EnerJew, FJC’s vibrant Jewish Youth Movement for teenagers across the former Soviet Union, has announced the establishment of a new branch this week in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
As the world celebrated the Rebbe’s 121st birthday on Yud Alef Nissan this year, the final 90 recipients of the Merkos library grants were announced, bringing to completion last year’s astronomical set of Kinus commitments to be achieved by the Rebbe’s 121st birthday.
Excitement can be felt in the air. Lag B’Omer is swiftly approaching, and there is one thing on everyone’s mind: The Lag B’Omer Parade! The singer for this Hakhel year’s parade will be the famed Joey Newcomb.
With great sadness we report the passing of Ephraim Mol OBM, a survivor of the Holocaust and a Chabad Chosid who was scheduled to say “Kol Malei Rachamim” on Holocaust remembrance at Yad Vashem. He passed away suddenly just hours before the event.
