In what way was Moshe like Hashem, regarding the pain of the Jews? How is this reflected in The Rebbe’s leadership? How can we – ordinary people – emulate this? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Va’eira.
“It was most apparent in the first impression what kind of mensch this young man was,” Rabbi Hirschy Zarchi, director of Chabad at Harvard, said of former student Jared Kushner. One night during his freshman year, after spending a few hours with him studying Tanya, Kushner saw it had snowed outside, asked for a shovel and cleared the sidewalk in front of the house, Zarchi related to the JTA.
When they were cleaning up after the bris, one of the house helpers came over and informed them that an expensive piece of silver is missing, saying, evidently one of our guests couldn’t contain themselves.
The federal judge who sentenced Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin to 27 years in prison has denied a petition seeking a new sentencing hearing that could lead to an earlier release for the 57 year old father of ten.
Shmuli (ben R’ Yisroel) Wilhelm (Crown Heights) and Chaya Vita Zeiler (Israel)
Jason Greenblatt, Donald Trump’s Appointee as the United States Special Representative for International Negotiations, tweeted this photo of Shliach Rabbi Shua Hecht and an assisting bochur koshering the kitchen in his new D.C. residence. “Now I can eat!” he tweeted.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Berel Levin, Chief Librarian of Agudas Chassidei Chabad, will lead a discussion on the topic: Chof Daled Teves – The Life of the Alter Rebbe.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe after a yechidus klolis in the 1980s.
This week, as we read in the Parsha about Golus Mitzrayim, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the question of horoscopes, and whether a Jew is allowed to consult with one, being that Egypt was steeped in these practices. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
The Rebbes of Pupa and Vien, both Chasidic communities based in Williamsburg, visited the near-complete Chabad Center of Palm Springs, California, while vacationing there.
It was “not a coincidence” that new President Donald Trump’s media troubles surged last Saturday — when his Orthodox Jewish son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner was observing Shabbat — a source close to the Trump family told Vanity Fair.
“NOW the world is dark, but soon to be bright for us.” When she wrote those words in late 2015, Thalia Hakin, who was tragically killed last Friday in the attack in Melbourne’s Bourke Street Mall, could not have imagined just how dark the world would soon become for her family, her community and, indeed, the whole of Melbourne and Australia.
Artist Zrey Li painted this mural in Montreal, Canada, teachings the Seven Nohaide Laws to passersby in the French language.
Hershel and Chaya (nee Kozak) Goldstein (Monsey, NY)
Yoel Eidelman (Crown Heights) and Devorah Leah Sternberg (Connecticut)
Chabad on Campus Shluchos from across the U.S. and Canada enjoyed three days of relaxation and rejuvenation in sunny Florida at the Ashreinu Society Annual Retreat. The winter break getaway took place at the Hyatt Coconut Point Resort, in Bonita Springs, Florida.
