Baby Girl!
Mendy and Brocha (nee Serebryanski) Wilschanski (Crown Heights)
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Shmueli Ungar Releases “Mach A Bracha” Music Video
It’s to get blessed! Shmueli Ungar’s “Mach A Bracha” is now a major music video production. A video celebrates the story of making a bracha. Every day, from when we wake up, till we go to bed, we have the opportunity to make blessings.
Laws and Customs: Elul
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Picture of the Day: Inner Perspectives at Almaty
Inner Perspectives, the first work in English on the teachings of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, is placed on his resting place in Almaty, Kazahkstan.
JLI Parsha Video: Your True Worth
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. Here is this week’s video for Parshas Re’eh.
Son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Celebrates Bar Mitzvah 71
Robert Meeropol was only six years old when, in 1953, his parents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by the US government as spies for the Soviet Union. Yesterday at age 71, he took part in an ancient Jewish ritual when he put on Tefillin for the first time, something that Jewish boys usually do when they turn 13 at their bar mitzvah.
Weekly Story: Mezuzah and Shabbos
In my correspondence, I try not to pry as Malka is extremely private. After Tishrei last year, I was informed that a shliach and Rov in his community used her story in his drosha on Yom Kippur. When I informed her of this, she inquired, “What did he see so special about my story?”
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe encouraging children to sing following a rally.
Shabbos at the Besht: Shlichus at a Liberal College
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shlomo Elkan, a Co-Director and Rabbi of Chabad at Oberlin College in Ohio, will lead a discussion on the topic of Shlichus at one of America’s most liberal colleges.
Weekly Letter: The Rebbe’s Shidduch Advice
Having just celebrated the joyous day of Tu B’Av, we present a letter from the Rebbe with detailed and clear advice regarding a shidduch. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
From Valley to Mountaintop, Parenting Insights from the Parasha
As very devoted parents we would love to sacrifice ourselves for the sake of our children on the ‘altar’ of unconditional love. However, did we ever establish any goal plan and schedule of a structured program to follow, so we can maintain our relationships with them and keep a safe balance in achieving our target?
Shliach: Universities Must Oppose the Immoral and Dangerous BDS Movement
Stanford Shliach Rabbi Dov Greenberg authored an essay published in the National Review decrying “immoral and dangerous BDS movement” following an incident in which pro-Israel students were threatened with violence.
Here’s My Story: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!
I am a businessman, an industrialist. And the story I have to tell here is how my family – despite the indisputable logic of the naysayers and despite our own finely-honed business sense – invested in a textile business in Israel, knowing it would be a losing proposition. We thought of it as a charitable donation, a short-term loss, because there was no way this business was going to survive long-term.
New Engagement!
Bentzy Zirkind (Montreal, Canada) and Leah (bas Chaim) Miller (Crown Heights)
Kehot Releases Book of Reb Levi Yitzchoks Teachings
Coinciding with anniversary of the passing of R. Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the father of the Rebbe, Kehot Publication Society has just released “An Inner Perspective,” a book based on his Kabbalistic writings. Inline with the Rebbes request that his teachings be studied on the yohrtziet Kehot released one essay here, in the Extended Article.
Video: How can we Receive the Greatest Blessings?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Eikev. This week he answers the question: How can we receive the greatest blessings? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
New Engagement!
Dovid Grossbaum (Indiana) and Chani Vogel (England)
