New Engagement!
Choni (ben Yossi) Cohen (Crown Heights) and Suki Turner (Crown Heights)
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Jewish Teens Gather in Volgograd for Seminar
Dozens of Jewish teenagers gathered in Volgograd, Russia, last weekend for a local EnerJew youth movement seminar. The seminar was the first combined event for youth from Volgograd and Saratov, as both of these cities only joined the movement in the fall.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 13, for Lincoln’s Birthday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Chabad Lobbies for Disability Services on Capitol Hill
Jewish communities and leaders from across the United States, including those from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, participated in the seventh annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Over 1,000 Attend Concert Evening Benefitting KSCVK
Over 1,000 men packed the Oholei Torah ballroom to enjoy an evening which included a lavish buffet, and a rocking concert featuring Mordechai Ben David and Simcha Friedman – who made his singing debut in the United States – in an event benefiting Keren Simchas Chosson VeKallah and the vital work they do in helping families make weddings.
Join Worldwide Farbrengen for Tu B’Shvat
Every year since 5731 the Rebbe would conduct a Farbrengen to celebrate Chamishah Asar BiShevat. Just in time for this year’s festival, JEM has released the Rebbe’s Farbrengen of 15 Shevat 5741 (1981). Fully restored and subtitled in 6 languages, the 3 hour Farbregen is now accessible to all.
Baby Boy!
Chanoch and Cherrie (nee Sputz) Bistritzky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Levi Groner (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Rochel Nagel (Crown Heights)
Weekly Thought: We Sing; What Else Is There to Do?
B’nei Yisrael sang Az Yashir back then, are the details still relevant today? What are the eternal lessons from this song for our Emunah in hashem? How can we as Chassidim be inspired from the messages of this great song? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Beshalach.
New Engagement!
Eliyahu Sapochkinsky (Westlake, CA) and Shayna Alevsky (New York, NY)
CTeen Shabbaton: The Countdown Begins
It’s that time of year again; The CTeen International Shabbaton, the largest youth Shabbaton in the country, is less than three weeks away. What began nine years ago with forty-teens has expanded to 1,516 set to arrive this year, iy’h. When calculated with chaperones, and staff, the number jumps to a whopping 2,034 participants, making this the largest Shabbaton to be hosted in Crown Heights to date.
New JEM WhatsApp Series for 22 Shevat
On 22 Shevat 5748, the Rebbe’s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka passed away. The Rebbetzin devoted her entire life to the Rebbe and his Chassidim, but her modesty meant that only when the Rebbe began to publicly speak about her, did many begin to appreciate her true greatness. After her passing, the Rebbe urged Chassidim to apply these lessons in their own lives.
Weekly Story: You Merited to Witness It
After introducing himself, Reb Mordechai handed to the Rebbe the letters that he was given by the chassidim in New York. The Rebbe picked up the letters and Reb Mordechai began trembling. He noticed that the color of the Rebbe’s face was constantly changing from letter to letter. This was a phenomenon that he had never witnessed by any of the other numerous Tzaddikim he had been in contact with and he recognized that this was a different kind of reading that he had witnessed until now by others.
Picture of the Day: Melbourne, Australia
Students of the Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne (YG) put on Tefilin with a fellow Jew amidst an anti-Israel protest in the city center.
Shabbos at the Besht: Zmanim in Halacha
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yisroel Fried, Shliach of the Rebbe to the Upper West Side, will lead a discussion on the topic: Zmanim in Halacha.
Governor Pulls Chasidic Man’s Car Out of Snowy Ditch
A Chasidic man from Williamsburg got first class service today when his car got stuck on a Westchester roadway, with Governor Andrew Cuomo himself pulling the stranded motorist out of a snowy ditch.
Horrifying Holocaust Graffiti Targets Jewish Student
Officials are investigating after a Jewish student at the University of Minnesota discovered horrifying anti-Semitic drawings on the white board in his dorm room. According to Rabbi Yitzi Steiner, co-director of the Chabad U of M, this is the second anti-Semitic incident in two weeks.
