JETS (The Jewish Educational Trade School) in Granada Hills, California, has completed its 11th successful school year and the JETS staff, students, and families are left with good memories, life lessons, and Chassidishe values learned and lived together.
A Potential terrorist attack on a light rail train in Central Jerusalem was averted thanks to alert security personal. A Palestinian man in his 20’s was taken into custody.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Mr. Dovid Richler OBM of Toronto, Canada, a philanthropist who help build Shuls and Mikvaos in Montreal and Toronto and was the first student in Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Montreal. He was 88 years old.
Yisroel Dovid Wolff (Chicago, IL) and Estie (bas R’ Dovid) Feldman (Crown Heights)
A crew of men robbing neighborhood businesses at gunpoint hit up two more spots in Crown Heights, bringing the total number of stick-ups in one week to five, police said.
Rabbi David Hill headed the National Council of Young Israel from 1961 to 1965. Responding to a request from Prime Minister Golda Meir, he established Operation Lifeline, an organization to help provide assistance for Soviet Jewry. In turning to many Jewish leaders for help, he had a series of meetings with the Rebbe. It was during one of these meetings, that he received the information that he was seeking.
Jewish students and alumni at the University of Southern California (USC) expressed shock and rallied around the Chabad Jewish center after an overnight burglary earlier this week. Dozens of supportive messages were posted on social media, while benefactors immediately contributed several thousand dollars to help recoup the damage.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avraham Lerner will lead a discussion on the topic – Medicine on Shabbos.
Mrs. Chaya Magalnic is sitting Shiva after the passing of her brother of blessed memory at 728 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.] until Wednesday morning. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
With five months to go, the Vaad HaKinus met to discuss details of the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim 5777.
Oscar boarded the train in Boston and was joined by his brother in Springfield and they went to Washington. After dropping off their belongings in a hotel, they went to the Supreme Court building. Entering the building Oscar was immediately recognized by the receptionist who said, “Oscar it is so nice to see you, what brings you here this time?” Oscar replied, “I must see Justice Brandeis immediately.”
“We will not let this affect us, we will not let fear affect or damage the life of our community, just as France will not let fear of terrorism change it,” Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Pinson, Chabad Emissary to Nice, told the JTA on Friday. He reiterated that Shabbos services will proceed as planned.
Summer camps from across South Florida joined together for an annual camp unity day event, which was held in the Dezer Car Museum. Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network of Florida organized two incredible programs, one for the girls and one for the boys’ camps.
Four camp counselors of Chabad of Nice were at the scene at the time of the horrific terror attack Thursday night, and were unharmed in what the local Shliach describes as a “miracle.”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe visiting Camp Gan Yisroel in the Catskills in the 1950s.
This week we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the very fundamental principle of the na’asse before the nishma, a concept which is emphasized when learning Parshas Chukas – accepting all Mitzvos as Chukim, with Kabbolas Ol first and only afterwards studying their significance and reasoning. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
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