This week’s Living Torah video from JEM features a profound and beautiful story. Michael Tabor is an educator and musician. In 1970, as a student at the London School of Economics, he had an audience with the Rebbe. After a conversation with the Rebbe about music and the arts, he learned an important lesson that has remained with him ever since.
Camp Gan Izzy of Los Angeles & Beverly Hills presents their official camp music video, after working with the best talent in LA to showcase their amazing staff-members, campers and all the smiles, joy and spirit they bring to to Gan Izzy!
Yankel and Mushky Wilansky (Crown Heights)
Yossi Gutnick (Crown Heights) and Shaina Saacks (Long Island, NY)
Once three wealthy Jewish businessmen traveled in the luxurious top class of the train, and at one stop they noticed another Jew also boarding that car. Being prominent members of their communities, they were well connected and knew most of the other wealthy individuals in the region. One looked to the other, as if asking, who is this individual?
This week, as we read in the Haftara ‘Nachamu’ following Tisha B’av, we present a letter from the Rebbe on bereavement and how to accept G-d’s judgment. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
CTeen’s second annual Winter Camp recently completed a lively and engaging five-day camp for boys in S. Paulo, Brazil. The program, which was overseen by Merkos’ Spanish took place over five days. The thirty-two teens—most of whom arrived from Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina—were treated to some of Brazil’s best and most exciting locations in true CTeen manner with chayus and inspiration.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe greeting someone as he enters a Farbrengen, circa mid-1970s.
Why do we love Nostalgia so much? Nostalgia is a sentimental affection for the past, a longing for a period or place with happy associations. So why do we love it? We’re wired to forget the intensity of past life-challenges and hardships, and yet we tend to remember the good stuff.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Binyomin Kreigsman will lead a discussion on the topic: Scrabble and puzzles on shabbos – practical applications of the melacha of kosev and mochek on shabbos.
Moshe and Chana (nee Graj) Fraenkel (Melbourne, Australia)
Lipman and Shulamis Heller (Crown Heights)
Since its 2013 founding, Chabad North Haven, New York, has been restrained in its potential.There was no concrete meeting place. Rather, East End residents searching for a spiritual outlet met in a hodgepodge of accommodations: a person’s den one week, another individual’s kitchen the next—whatever made itself available. It was a communal effort, though one that stymied growth and outreach.
Adam Spiro is on call, available at the short notice of a cell-phone alert to attend the burial of a total stranger. The same goes for Jay Gotteiner, a fellow congregant at Chabad’s Montreal Torah Center (MTC), who gets an identical notification on his mobile when a graveside minyan falls short.
In a rare move and after facing criticism at town hall meetings, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, New York’s Junior Democratic Senator, withdrew her sponsorship of an anti-BDS bill.
After the success of his hit song Elokai, which created a sensation in the world of Chassidic music, the rising star Nemouel Harouche has released a new hit song, titled V’Haya Ha’Shem.
