What a wonderful way to share the message of Yom Tov by bringing joy and a smile to the people who need it most. The idea was to get the wider Sydney community involved to bake over 10,000 honey cookies to be distributed by parents, teens and kids who throughout Tishrei would visit nursing homes, hospitals and homeless shelters to bring joy along with a delicious home-baked gift.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chana Zucker (Cukier) OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, on the 14th of Elul 5777. She was 91 years old.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present two photos of the Rebbe reciting Hallel on Chol Hamoed Sukkos, circa 1961.
Shloimy Morosow (Crown Heights) and Elkie Reinhold (Petach Tikvah, Israel)
Being that today, the 13th of Tishrei, is the Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe Maharash, we present our weekly story describing the events of his Histalkus in great detail.
Locals and visitors bustle about on Kingston Ave., searching for the perfect set of Lulav and Esrog as the Yomtov of Sukkos approaches. Photographer Sholem Srugo captured the scene.
Yossi Wolf (Melbourne, Australia) and Rikkie Winner (Melbourne, Australia)
Twin brothers Rabbi Levi Harlig and Rabbi Mordechai Harlig, directors of Chabad of Las Vegas Blvd., led Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval in prayer before a press conference on Monday after they put on Tefillin with the family members of Natalie Grumet, a Jewish cancer survivor who was one of the hundreds wounded in the nation’s worst mass shooting attack.
The students of Rabbi Vogel’s 7th grade class at Lubavitch Yeshiva-Crown St. spent this short week before Sukkos on a special project. Every 2-3 boys had a different theme connected with Sukkos, which they had to bring out with a creative project from what they learned about it in class.
A unique and historic panel of speakers came together yesterday and spent hours discussing and revealing details involving the repeating, editing and printing the Sichos and Farbrengens of the Rebbe, with thousands of Bochurim in attendance.
Yesterday, Rabbi Levi Wilhelm of Chabad of Las Vegas handed out pizza and drinks to law enforcement officers in the hours after the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. “Thank you for everything you have done the last couple hours,” he said to them; “we can’t thank you enough for your service.”
Mendel Fischer (Monsey, NY) and Rachel Edelman (Brunoy, France)
Mr. Avraham Infeld is the founder of Melitz, one of the early architects of Birthright Israel, and past chairman of Israel Forum and Areivim. From 2003 to 2005, he served as the president of Hillel International. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in September of 2014.
In this new weekly series, JLI presents a unique two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. This week’s video for Sukkos is titled: Bruised with Blessings.
Six new Bochurim have arrived to a new Smicha (Rabbinical Course) program which will take place at the Tzemach Tzedek Community Centre, Sydney that begins after the festival of Sukkos.
We present a fascinating article written by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches of Merlbourne, Australia, exploring all of the reasons why it is Minhag Chabad to use a “Yanove” Esrog from Calabria, Italy.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Yomtov of Sukkos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the message of Sukkos?
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