On Thursday night, old friends, former talimidim and family members gathered together in Empire Shteibel to celebrate the 70th birthday of renowned educator, author and Maggid-Shiur Rabbi Shmuel Heber.
Benny and Mor (nee Binder) Greenberg (Pittsburgh, PA)
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier, director of The Beis Medrash of Crown Heights, will lead a discussion on the topic: The Right Perfume for a Narcissist: Chasidus’ Perspective on Purim.
Levi and Chaya Mushka Klyne (Crown Heights)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe encouraging the singing at a Farbrengen.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Terumah is titled: The Gift of Giving.
This week, we present a letter from the Rebbe written shortly after Purim in 1951 (a little over a month after he accepted the Nesius), in which he thanks a group of students for the Shalch Manos they sent him. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehilllim for Refael Shmuel ben Orit, a 6-year-old boy who currently undergoing emergency surgery and is need of our tefillos.
There’s only one place in the world where Yiddish is an official language, and that’s the Jewish Autonomous Region in the far reaches of Siberia, Russia. Established by Stalin in the late 1920s, the region was presented as the Communist answer to the Jewish Question. But in the region’s capital of Birobidzhan, The Wall Street Journal reports, the top concern of its 3,000 Jews is kosher food.
Menachem Mendel Chanowitz (Monticello, NY) and Sheina Glazman (Riga, Latvia)
“Just when you think that CTeen can’t get any better, they pull this off,” shared Ben Bursk with a smile. The teen president from Manchester England was referring to the 9th annual International Shabbaton, organized by the Chabad Teen Network. CTeen, the fastest growing and most diverse Jewish youth organization in the world, hosted a four day event in New York, which drew in a record breaking twenty-three hundred people.
A Jewish cemetery in Rochester, New York, was vandalized, the third such incident in the United States in less than two weeks.
A Chabad of Five Towns’ 22nd Anniversary Gala Dinner, New York State Sen. Todd Kaminsky (D-Long Beach, second from left) presents a proclamation to founder and director Rabbi Zalman Wolowik (center) and to Chabad’s honorees for all their volunteer work on behalf of the community.
After Jewish cemeteries were vandalized and Jewish centers received bomb threats all across the country, a group of Florida Muslims delivered flower bouquets to a local synagogue and Jewish center, saying “it is important that we stand together.”
For more than a month, dozens of bomb threats have been called into JCCs and other Jewish institutions around the country. We’ve witnessed the overturning of tombstones in Jewish cemeteries along with other anti-Semitic acts and threats. It’s always good for parents and their kids to sit down for a discussion of the events of the day; so renowned author and educator Rabbi Tzvi Freeman compiled a list of five points to cover.
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