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Moshe and Sarah Chanah (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
Vandalism No Match for UCLA Student’s Jewish Pride
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.
Chassidus Essay Contest Offers $10k Prize
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.
Weekly Letter: Why Tragedies and Suffering?
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.
Weekly JLI Video: A Lesson in Rebuke
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
Weekly Story: Changing the Perspective
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.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe giving children coins to give tzedakah.
Shabbos at the Besht: Dancing and Clapping on Shabbos
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avrohom Eliyohu Wudowsky will lead a discussion on the topic: Dancing and Clapping on Shabbos.
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Noach and Dina (nee Elberg) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
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Mendel and Mussie (nee Futerfas) Korf (Miami Beach, Fl)
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Mayer and Sara Wayden (Crown Heights)
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Yossi and Mushka Overlander (Crown Heights)
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Yankele and Hudi (nee Levin) Bistritsky (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Zalmen Levin (Crown Heights) and Simi (bas Mendel) Lew (Stanmore, England)
New Engagement!
Mendel Weinbaum (London, England) and Chana Drukier (New Haven, Ct)
New Engagement!
Yankel (ben Shua) Raskin (Crown Heights) and Mushka (bas Chaim OBM) New (Melbourne, Australia)
Shloshim Held for R’ Michoel Behrman OBM
Family, friends and acquaintances gathered Wednesday evening to mark the Sholoshim [thirty days] since the passing of R’ Michoel Behrman OBM, who was among the first of the Baalei Teshuva movement who came to Crown Heights.
