As Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touched down in India for a five-day visit, he was greeted by India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the tarmac where the two embraced and exchanged hopes that the visit will further strengthen the ties of the two country’s.
Moshe and Sarah Chanah (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
A mezuzah will again go up on the doorpost of the Undergraduate Students Association Council at the University of California-Los Angeles, after having been forcibly ripped off multiple times in the past few years. It will be rededicated next week in the presence of a group of onlookers that the student and a campus rabbi are attracting in response to the act of vandalism.
In honor of the Alter Rebbe’s 205th yahrzeit on 24 Teves, the Meaningful Life Center has launched the Fourth Annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay Contest, awarding $10,000 to the winning essay which applies a concept in Chassidus to solve a contemporary life issue or challenge.
In a letter to The Rebbe, a person laments the tragedies and suffering – such as the holocaust – that have befallen the Jewish people. The Rebbes response is a lesson on perspectives. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Va’eira is titled A Lesson in Rebuke
In a farbrengen with some friends, the topic of how two people can be doing the exact same action, but being that their perspective is different, everything about it is completely different. This act of a person changing their perspective is perhaps one of the initial levels of ishapcha, turning something around and utilizing it for holiness.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe giving children coins to give tzedakah.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avrohom Eliyohu Wudowsky will lead a discussion on the topic: Dancing and Clapping on Shabbos.
Noach and Dina (nee Elberg) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Mussie (nee Futerfas) Korf (Miami Beach, Fl)
Mayer and Sara Wayden (Crown Heights)
Yossi and Mushka Overlander (Crown Heights)
Yankele and Hudi (nee Levin) Bistritsky (Crown Heights)
Zalmen Levin (Crown Heights) and Simi (bas Mendel) Lew (Stanmore, England)
Mendel Weinbaum (London, England) and Chana Drukier (New Haven, Ct)
Yankel (ben Shua) Raskin (Crown Heights) and Mushka (bas Chaim OBM) New (Melbourne, Australia)
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