Weekly JLI Video: A Child and a Suit
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Shabbos Chazon is titled: A Child and a Suit.
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Crown Heights Women Protest Removal of Metal Detectors
Crown Heights Women for the Safety and Integrity of Israel, an advocacy group, protested a decision by the Israeli Government to remove security measures from the Temple Mount, such as metal detectors, which were recently installed in the aftermath of a terror attack that left an Israeli policeman dead.
Early Morning Chasidus Shiur Marks Two Years
Dozens of members of the Lubavitch community in Toronto celebrated the 2-year anniversary of their early-morning Chasidus Shiur, which takes place every Tuesday and Thursday at 6:20am – rain, snow or shine.
Lawmakers Want To Decriminalize Turnstile Jumping
At a press conference held yesterday in Crown Heights, State Sen. Jesse Hamilton and Assemblywoman Tremaine Wright unveiled a bill they will introduce in Albany that will decriminalize turnstile-jumping, making arrests for the offense a thing of the past. Violators will instead be hit with a $100 fine.
Video: Success Through Failure
When we’re working on something and it doesn’t work out, sometimes we not only think to ourselves, “I failed this time,” we think, “I’m a failure.” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor reminds us that we sometimes tend to see successful people in their final state. We forget that the most accomplished people in history, also had their own share of failures and bumps along the way.
Picture of the Day: Sydney, Australia
The first 9-Days Siyum in the world took place on Sunday in Sydney, Australia, led by Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Feldman at the Yeshiva Centre in Bondi. Refreshments were sponsored by Reb Shmuel Scuri in memory of his father OBM.
Students Start Cooking Club to Help with Shabbat Meal
Every Friday at 7:30 p.m., University of Minnesota students pile into the Steiner family’s Chabad House for dinner. As usual, there is homemade challah and matzo ball soup, but there’s also something special – the dinner was made by the students themselves.
E-Cigarettes Banned in All New York Schools
Governor Andrew Cuomo today signed legislation which will immediately ban the use of electronic cigarettes on all public and private school grounds in New York State.
7-Year-Old Drowning Victim Tragically Passes Away
Miriam Zidele, the 7-year-old girl who near-drowned in a Pomona, NY swimming pool last week, has tragically passed away.
Ammar Shahin
Shliach Condemns Imam’s Incitement to Violence
The director of the Chabad center serving the University of California-Davis told The Algemeiner on Tuesday that he was “taking seriously” a Friday sermon made by the imam of the local mosque that some have called antisemitic.
New Jersey Day Camp Doubles Enrollment
Now in its second year in the new location, Gan Izzy in Randolph – formerly located in Morristown – has almost doubled in attendance from last year.
Baby Girl!
Moshe and Chani (nee Karasik) Holtzberg (Crown Heights)
Sparks of Judaism Fly in Remote Southern Oregon
Back in April, Faigy Zwiebel organized a Jewish book event for kids at a Barnes & Noble store near Ashland, Oregon, and waited and waited for families to come. But nobody showed up.
Video: How to Catch an Anti-Semite
How to catch an anti-Semite? Who would have thought this would be a question we would need to ask in modern-day America? Yet, in this fascinating and highly entertaining talk by Rabbi David Nesenoff, given at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat, we learn that Anti-Semitism does still exist, even in unlikely places.
Mesivta Student Completes Entire Shas
The Chief Sephardic Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef, recently visited the Chabad Yeshiva Ketana in Kiryat Gat, Israel, to congratulate student Yosef Yitzchak Hanunu on completing the entire Shas.
Photos: Visiting Day at YSP
On Sunday, the Talmidim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ, were visited by family and friends from around the country.
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