One year, around ten years after the passing of Malka’s adopted parents and her immediate decision to move as far away as one can, a rabbi showed up in her village, knocked on her door and asked if she was Jewish. “I was shocked,” says Malka, “as I thought I would never be found; but I answered truthfully, ‘Yes.’ But then I asked him, ‘How do you know?’ He told me that he has a small package containing matza for me from the Rebbe.”
The Lubavitch community of Paris gathered last night at the Beis Chaya Mushka girls’ school for a Farbrengen marking the 115th anniversary of the Rebbe’s birth, led by Rabbi Mendel Azimov and Rabbi Elchonon Marozov.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shuchat, Dayan on the Beis Din of the Union of Orthodox Rabbis of the USA and Canada, will deliver part two of his lecture on the laws and customs of Pesach: Peeling vegetables, oil or shmaltz etc.
A product that is not certified as kosher for Pesach was erroneously stocked on the shelves of The Marketplace’s Pesach store by a non-Jewish employee, CrownHeights.info has learned.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a pair of unique photos of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha after Yomtov, circa 1985.
In honor of the Rebbe’s birthday, Kehot Publication Society has released a special edition of the Rebbe’s Kapitel Tehillim for the coming year, Kapitel 116, which is excerpted from their newly-published Tehillim with commentary from the Talmud, Midrash, Kabbalah, Classic commentators and the Chasidic masters, compiled by Rabbi Yosef B. Marcus.
Yanki and Channi Hayward (Montreal, Canada)
The White House released a proclamation designating April 7, 2017 as Education and Sharing Day, U.S.A in honor of the 115th anniversary of Rebbe’s birth.
Throughout the years, the Rebbe would mark his own birthday by requesting from his followers to make new commitments in his merit. Whether it was opening a new Chabad House or resolving to lay Tefillin every day, the Rebbe’s birthday was always an opportunity for all of us to grow.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was visited today by a delegation of Chabad Chassidim, led by the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s personal secretary Rabbi Leibel Groner.
This week, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he thanks the donor of a new Aron Kodesh for 770, who personally handcrafted it from wood and gifted it in honor of the Rebbe’s 72nd birthday in 1974. The Aron Kodesh still stands in its place today, over 40 years later. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy of Massachusetts’ Early Childhood Director Lilia Luzhanskiy and LYA Kindergarten teacher Rochel Leah Kosofsky appeared on local television to demonstrate how to make holidays like Passover a fun and exciting learning experience for the entire family.
As in previous years, the New York City Department of Sanitation will be doing an extra garbage and recycling pickup on Erev Pesach in Crown Heights.
An IDF soldier was killed and another lightly wounded when a Palestinian terrorist drove into a crowded bus stop outside the town of Ofra, north of Jerusalem, this morning, Thursday.
Marking the 115th birthday of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, dozens of ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ took to the streets of New York City to spread a message of redemption and of Pesach, as a ‘gift’ to the Rebbe.
Police in Paris are investigating a 27-year-old Arab man on suspicion that he murdered his neighbor, Lucy Halimi, a 66-year-old Orthodox-Jewish woman, following a confrontation in her apartment.
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