One of the most damaging trends in today’s educational environment is the relentless push for absolute uniformity. This pressure contradicts one of the most foundational principles of Torah: “Shiv’im Panim LaTorah” — the seventy legitimate faces of Torah (Bamidbar Rabbah 13:15).
Late Saturday night, June 20th, a single-engine Piper PA-28 Cherokee carrying three young men went down in a wooded area near a residential neighborhood in Bowie, Maryland, killing all three aboard. In the hours and days that followed, a network of Chabad shluchim under the auspices of Chabad of Maryland and Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan together with partner organizations worked quietly — and urgently — to ensure the victims received the dignity, respect, and Jewish care that halacha demands.
Berke and Rivka (nee Lubin) Wolff from Odessa, Ukraine had a baby girl!
Last week Kollel Anash of Crown Heights had the honor of hosting a shiur by Rabbi Yitzchok Hanoka on Pas and Bishul Akum. Rabbi Hanoka serves as a senior Mashgiach for the OK kashrus.
Organized by the Torah Center as part of its annual programming, the evening brought together community members for reflection, personal stories, music, and renewed connection to the Rebbe’s enduring guidance.
Performances featured solos and duets (with siblings or friends) and also included a special new Mamesh Music band which was formed, to IY”H continue into next year.
If organizations or leaders choose to ignore the will of the community and continue acting independently of the body elected to represent it, residents of the Kehilla will ultimately vote with their actions—and those leaders will have no one to blame but themselves.
The Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) confirmed the incident began at approximately 11:35 a.m. The shooting unfolded near Decarie Boulevard and Westbury Avenue, an area with a large Jewish and Chabad population and several community institutions, including Beth Rivkah Academy, Chai Center, MADA, Vaad Ha’ir, and Yagdil Torah.
Ari Engel (Denver, CO) to Lieba Scheinberger (Coral Springs, FL) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva – Small Hall
Baruch Hashem, in the past decade it has become possible for people from around the world to travel to his resting place in Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, with full hospitality arrangements in place. This year as well, a full hachnasas orchim program will be in place from Sunday, 19 Menachem Av, through Tuesday, 21 Menachem Av.
In his online fundraising campaigns, Sabassi claimed to be raising funds to provide humanitarian aid to people in Gaza; however, Sabassi was actually raising funds for Hamas. Sabassi and a co-conspirator joked privately that they should name the fundraiser after Hamas’s al-Qassam Brigades, before agreeing to use Sabassi’s Ikram.
Registration is now open for the 12th annual Gold Star Teachers’ Training Course, returning this summer in Crown Heights.
New York City Emergency Management (NYCEM) has issued a travel advisory for Monday, June 22. The National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts rain developing late Monday morning and becoming moderate to heavy, with thunderstorms possible Monday afternoon and again late Monday night into early Tuesday.
The evening marked the culmination of months of intense study, during which participants mastered hundreds of pages of Inyonei Geulah and Moshiach.
Gad Benharrous (Paris, France) to Hanni Zerbib (Bonneuil sur Marne, France)
Jews have lived in Pensacola a while — they built Florida’s first synagogue here in 1876. But in all that time, the city never had a mikvah. The closest was a three-hour round trip to Destin, or even further to Mobile, Alabama.
The Annual Grand Mishnayos B’al Peh Ceremony of the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva took place last Sunday. 160 Talmidim proudly sat on the bleachers celebrating their achievements in learning lines, Prokim and Mesechtos of Mishnayos and Tanya B’al Peh.
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