Weekly JLI Video: Duty with Purpose
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Behar-Bechukosai is titled: Duty with Purpose.
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1,000 Join Lag Ba’omer Parade in Detroit
Close to a thousand men, women, and children gathered together for Lag B’Omer in Oak Park, Michigan.
Jewish Unity and Pride in Europe’s Diamond Capital
This past Sunday, on Lag B’omer, the residents of ‘Europe’s center for diamonds’ – Antwerp, Belgium, were witness to a grand display of yiddishkeit in the open, a real Kiddush Hashem.
Africa Not Left Out of Lag Ba’omer Festivities
Africa was not left out of Sunday’s Lag Ba’omer festivities, as Rabbi Israel Uzan, Shliach to Abuja, the capital of the continent’s largest country, Nigeria, organized a Lag Ba’omer parade as a way for the few Jews living there to demonstrate their pride.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a Chabad supporter, circa late 1980s.
Baby Boy!
Sendy and Frumie (nee Simpson) Dubrawsky (Crown Heights)
From Days Gone By: 50 Years of Mivtza Tefilin
50 years ago, in the anxious days leading up to the outbreak of the Six-Day-War, the Lubavitcher Rebbe launched his first Mivtza (campaign) – that every Jewish male above the age of 13 should put on Tefilin, and he assured that in this merit G-d would show the Jewish people miracles. The rest is history.
Weekly Letter: Leaving the Land Fallow
This week, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he clarifies the concept of shmitta – going beyond the limited understanding of it as merely a sabbatical for the land to recoup its strength. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Boy Scout Builds a Mikvah
Rochester, N.Y. boy scout Benjy Spanjer was getting impatient. It had been nine years, and the 17-year old was more than ready to advance to the highest achievement in the boy scouts hierarchy, that of the eagle scout.
Shloshim Held for Murdered Chabad Rabbi
The Jewish community of Paris, France, gathered together Wednesday night to mark the Shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Mendel Deutsch, HYD, a former member of their community who was brutally murdered by thugs in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir.
Car Rams 23 People in Times Square; 1 Dead
A car slammed onto a busy sidewalk in Times Square about an hour ago, killing at least one person and injuring 22 others. Police say the incident is not terror related.
The Parade that Survived the Brooklyn Downpour
The rainstorm that came down upon Brooklyn on Lag B’omer did not stop the over 1,000 participants who arrived for the Parade in Kensington. They were all in high spirits and enjoyed the magnificent program.
Settler Shoots Dead Palestinian Stone Thrower
An Israeli settler opened fire when a group of Palestinians crowded around his car and pelted it with rocks in the West Bank today, Thursday. One of the rock throwers was killed.
Video: Who Knows Ten?
How do you explain and make the Aseres Hadibros relevant to your children and students? Watch how Rabbi Manis Friedman uses The Visual Aseres Hadibros Card to explain the Ten Commandments in less than ten minutes, so that even a puppet could understand.
Crowd Flocks to Learn About Rebbe on Upper East Side
Over two hundred people gathered together on Monday, at an event hosted by Kehillath Jeshurun in Manhattan, to explore the life of the Rebbe.
New Engagement!
Shmuli Zalmanov (Crown Heights) and Chana Belinow (Paris, France)
Here’s My Story: Chasid in Camouflage
Rabbi Benjamin Blech is associate professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and author of many books including, among others, Understanding Judaism, If God is Good, Why is the World So Bad, and the Idiot’s Guide to Jewish History and Culture. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in January of 2012.
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