The Pearson, Rubin, Klein, and Raskin families would like extend an invitation to the entire community to attend a Siyum Sefer Torah, dedicated in memory of their father and grandfather the legendary chossid, Rabbi Dovid Raskin.
A partial federal shutdown was expected to drag into the December 25th holiday as President Donald Trump and congressional leaders remained stuck in a standoff over his border wall with Mexico with no breakthrough Saturday.
The White House has released video of the much lauded prison reform bill advocated by many members of the Jewish community. The bill received sweeping majorities in both the House and Senate on the way to the Presidents desk.
Simcha Rotem, the last surviving fighter from the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto uprising by Jewish partisans against the Nazis died on Saturday in Israel at the age of 94. Rotem survived by masterminding an escape through the drain system with dozens of comrades.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Vayechi.
With the United States Congress passing a landmark bill on prison reform, we share this video in which the Rebbe addresses the most obvious and fundamental question that’s at stake: What’s the point of Prison?
The IDF detonated one of the terror tunnels it uncovered snaking under its border with Lebanon. The tunnel began in the Lebanese village of Ramye and penetrated dozens of meters into Israel.
As is known to many of our readers, Rabbi Nissen Mangel sheyichye is one of the youngest survivors of the German concentration camps. He was incarcerated in 1944, when he was just ten years old, and was liberated a year later, when he was eleven. Last week at a farbrengen in his shul, he connected the following episode of his life, that took place during the Death March, to the parshah.
Shaya and Miriam Gutleizer (Miami, Fl)
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe saying a maamar, in the year 1970.
This Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Levi Browd is the founder and director at Yagdil Torah, as well as the author of novel, inspiring and thought-provoking Torah thoughts which he sends out daily. He will be giving a lecture on When, how and why one can – and should – author explanations on Torah.
This week, in connection with our parsha, in which Yaakov takes leave of his children before his passing, and his blessings for each of them, we present a letter in which the Rebbe makes some important points about a Jewish will.
We present a video from JLI, on the question What is the Secret to Self-Esteem? Self esteem may be hard to come by, and a low one can really make your life difficult. So what is the secret to self esteem?
Dr Allan Plaut, a loved pediatrician in the Crown Heights community received a citation from Senator Jesse Hamilton honoring his exemplary service to the community.
Chabad of Towson, which received and order of demolition of its $800,000 wing of the Chabad House, has filed a lawsuit against Baltimore County, Maryland for defamation. Chabad of Towson is being represented by famed attorney Nathan Lewin.
In the 6 years since, Living Chassidus’s mission has expanded to include addressing not just the spiritual needs of its members, but also their material and social needs – bringing equal emphasis to both “living” and “chassidus,”
The majority of NYC council members including councilman Chaim Deutsch, sent a letter to NYS Education Department to raise concern about their guidelines for private schools.
