Thursday, the 15th of Tammuz was the yahrzeit of Rabbi Chaim ben Atar, better known as the Ohr Hachaim hakodesh, who was nistalek in 5503 (1743), and I will like to relate a few stories that demonstrate the unique relationship he had with the Baal Shem Tov.
Lamar Joseph Odom is an American professional basketball player who plays for the Los Angeles Lakers. On Thursday of this week, he was spotted at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens New York.
You may have heard that the New York State Education Department recently published proposed Regulations about “substantial equivalency of instruction” required for students attending nonpublic schools. This is a Q&A on how it might effect Yeshivos.
We present a photo Gallery from CGI Parksville on Visiting day, as parents came to visit their sons in camp, and get a feel for the camp spirit.
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Zvi Hirsch (Georgiy) Logvinsky, a Jew who serves as a member of parliament in the Ukraine, was seen handing out chocolate bars to the children of Kfar Chabad, together with the chairman of the village committee, Rabbi Shimon Rabinowitz, while on a visit to Israel. It turns out that a particularly moving story was the motivation for Logvinsky’s distribution of chocolate bars, which was published by the Kfar Chabad weekly.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe greeting a guest as he enters to a farbrengen, circa 1980.
As we enter the period of the three weeks, with the 17th of Tammuz, we present a letter in which the Rebbe discusses the question of “why the holocaust ” in context of the many tragedies in Jewish history.
Argentina on Thursday officially designated Hezbollah, which it blames for two attacks on its soil, a terrorist organization and ordered the freezing of its assets in the country, Reuters reports.
Watch as Gan Yisroel Parksville takes you through their second week of camp. Join them in their exciting trips and activities.
Crown Heights Shomrim has put out an alert to the community for a man wanted by the police in Crown Heights. The man had allegedly been attempting to pass fake bills to a local establishment, before getting violent and smashing a computer screen with a chair. If you have any information on this person, please call 911 and Shomrim at 718-774-3333.
Last week, Chabad’s Or Avner school in Baku was ranked by the State Examination Center (SEC) among the top twenty schools in Azerbaijan. The annual assessment is based on pedagogical and educational criteria established by the SEC and pronounced the Jewish school (K-12) one of the best for quality of education among all the schools in the Muslim-majority country.
Daniel Kaplan (Deerfield, Illinois) and Daniella Jebreel (Brentwood, California)
L’Chaim: Tonight 8:30pm at F.R.E.E.
As today is the 5oth anniversary of the first man landing on the moon we present a letter of the Rebbe in connection with space travel and exploration.
A rare and fascinating letter from the Rebbe is up for auction in Israel. The letter, part typed, part handwritten, is addressed to Rabbi Yeshayah HaLevi Horowitz, and is written on HaMerkaz L’Inyanei Chinuch stationery.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Mr. Don Wolf presently resides in Melbourne, Australia, where he works in his family’s property development business. Before retiring, he had served for over 35 years on the board of the Yeshivah Centre, including 12 years as chairman. He was interviewed in July of 2016.
Iran’s military seized a foreign tanker in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday, Iranian media outlets reported. While the ship was not identified, nor its country of origin revealed, the Iranian Fars outlet reported that the ship had a crew of 12, who were taken captive by Iranian military forces.
