Baby Boy!
Berel and Sara (nee Cohen) Nagel (Crown Heights)
Weekly Story: Whose Accomplishment Is It?
In the beginning of this weeks parsha, the Torah instructs us that the first born son is to receive a double portion. Then the possuk states, this applies even if the man had two wives and by both of them their first child was a boy. However, the man loves the second wife more than the first and he desires to bequeath the double portion to the son of the wife he loves over the firstborn of his first wife.
Shluchim to the U.S. Southern Region Hold Kinus
On Sunday, 17 Menachem Av, Chabad of Greensboro hosted a kinus for the Southern Region. Shluchim traveled from Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas.
Parasha: Who has more Freedom than a Bird?
If only we would have a greater clarity of the blessings, with which we wish to be blessed this upcoming year, we would just have had some closer experience in sensing them, wouldn’t we then be able to create the proper environment for the fulfillment of these blessings?
Timely Tales: Tree Talk
JLI presents its unique new two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. Tree Talk: How to bless someone who has everything.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe clapping during a farbrengen.
Video: “If you could Save Somebody… How could you not do it?”
In a heart-rending and emotional video Rabbi Nosson Blumes of Crown Heights shares his story of being lead to make a great personal sacrifice – donating his kidney, to save the life of another. “If you could save somebody, save a family from such a tragedy… how could you not do it?” he asks.
Shabbos at the Besht: the Rebbe’s Tefillin Campaign
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yitzchok Tsap, the video director at JEM, responsible for weekly Living Torah content, as well as directing feature productions, will lead a deliver a behind the scenes look at the upcoming JEM film, “Armed” – the story behind the launch of the Rebbe’s Tefillin campaign.
Baby Boy!
Motti And Sarahla (nee Smoller) Hyams (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Moishy and Aidela (nee Zirkind) Pape (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Yosef and Lea (nee Karasik) Katsev (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Shmuel and Chana (nee Raskin) Karasik (Crown Heights)
Video: Why do we have to Disconnect to Re-connect?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Ki Teitzei. This week he answers the question: Why do we have to Disconnect to Re-connect? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Weekly Letter: Is doing a Mitzvah for an Ulterior Motive Hypocritical?
In preparation for Rosha Hashanah – as we make an accounting of our deeds and resolutions for improving our deeds, we present a letter in which the Rebbe encourages the writer in the actual doing of the Mitzvos, even if doing so for an ulterior motive – and explains why this is not hypocritical. Also touching upon a message for Rosh Hashanah. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
71st Precinct First to get New ‘Community Lounge’
Crown Heightses 71st police precinct will be getting a new and first of its kind “community lounge,” whose aim is to change community perception and daunting feeling of entering a police precinct. The new initiative was announced at a press conference lead by New York City’s mayor Bill DeBlasio in Crown Heights.
Photos: Smiles Abound at ULY’s First Day
Smiling Talmidim with their proud parents filled the halls at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, excited for their first day of Shnas Halimudim 5779.
