Motzai Shabbos, the Shluchos enjoyed a Melava Malka and farbrengen in The Palace Ballroom in Boro Park. The theme of the evening was “Shluchos Take the Stage” and featured musical presentations and inspirational speech’s.
Israeli Fighter jets pounded Syrian military positions after an Israeli jet was shot down over Shabbos by Syrian anti-aircraft missile systems.
1,200 Shluchos posed for their annual group photo, which was taken on Friday in Oholei Torah, and superimposed over a photo of 770.
Zalman and Nechama Dina (nee Yarmush) Duchman (Roosevelt Island, NY)
Mendy and Nechami (nee Lipsh) Levin (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Following their Friday visit to the Ohel, the Shluchos returned to the Oholei Torah ballroom to pose for a group photo – returning to the traditional format as in the past years. Following the photo they attended additional workshops and the resource fair.
Over 300 members of anash and Tmimim in London, England gathered in honor of Chof Beis Shvat, for a special Melaveh Malkah that was held with Rabbi Yosef Greenberg from Alaska who came to London to Farbreng.
After not feeling well over Shabbos, Rabbi Ezra Shochet, Rosh Yeshiva of Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles, California, was rushed to the hospital. The public is requested to please say Tehillim for Harav Ezra Binyomin ben Sara Sasha.
Rabbi Berel Slaviticki, his wife Rochy (nee Shanowitz) and baby son, Mendel, have been appointed as new shluchim to the University of New Hampshire, and will be serving an estimated 600 Jewish students.
In honor of the Yahrtzeit of Dr. Abraham Seligson we present you, courtesy of Hasidic Archives an excerpt from a chapter in their new book Footprints, detailing some of the history and stories of Dr. Seligson.
Shmully and Sara (nee Kazan) Lieberman (Crown Heights)
Reuven and Nechama (nee Trappler) Gitter (Crown Heights)
On Friday, the third day of the Kinus Hashluchos, the Shluchos visited the Rebbe’s Ohel and Rebbetzin’s gravesite in Queens and read a Pan Kloli on behalf of all their fellow Shluchos.
In 1954, Rabbi Leib Friedman was invited to the wedding of Rav Chaim Chaikel’s youngest child. The wedding was well attended, as Rav Chaim was the Rosh HaYeshiva of Yeshivas Chayei Olam in Yerushalayim, and the multitudes of his students of many decades came to participate in his happiness. However, the happiness was bitter sweet, as their beloved Rosh Hayeshiva who had difficulties in walking for many years, had now lost all movement and sensation in his feet, and he was brought to the wedding in his special “hospital” bed.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe addressing the N’Shei Chabad Convention in 1991.
On Thursday afternoon, day 2 of the International Kinus Hashluchos, the Shluchos had lunch and then a welcome session, followed by additiona sessions at the Leonardo Plaza in Great Neck, New York. The afternoon sessions were followed by a lavish dinner at Oholei Torah.
President James Morales of Guatemala will attend a special Shabbat meal on Friday night in Manhattan, hosted by Chabad’s Jewish Latin Center.
