Pegisha Kicks Off With Almost 2,000 Students
Pegisha is underway. Almost 2,000 participants from more than 160 universities across six countries are in Crown Heights this weekend for Pegisha, hosted by Chabad on Campus International.
Pegisha is underway. Almost 2,000 participants from more than 160 universities across six countries are in Crown Heights this weekend for Pegisha, hosted by Chabad on Campus International.
Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, a squad commander in the Ari Battalion (775), Search and Rescue Brigade, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon, a combat soldier in the battalion, fell in combat during the shooting attack on Friday morning at the Judea Junction.
The response to last week’s article about our custom of saying Tehillim, and when it should be said, was much more than I anticipated. Many people emailed me or spoke to me personally asking me for details and when should they say their personal Tehillim. So this week, I am following up with an article about the history of learning the daily portion of the Parsha.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman shows how Hashem has given us the “roadmap” to life. It may be counter intuitive, but it works.
The cafe on the center’s ground floor looks like any other stop along the trail. Everything on the menu, however, is kosher, down to the chalav Yisrael dairy and pat Yisrael baked goods.
The officer kept encouraging him. And right there on the sidewalk, in the middle of an ordinary day, he put on tefillin.
The IDF reported on Friday morning that five Israelis were injured, two critically, in a shooting attack near Judea Junction near Hebron.
Less than 24 hours after a woman followed him along a Manhattan sidewalk and stabbed him in the back, Chabad rabbinical student Yosef was back in Midtown dropping in on Jewish merchants and craftsmen in the Diamond District to help them don tefillin.