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Florida Shliach Sues Deutsche Bank for $3 Billion
The Wertheim Trust for Jewish Education, a non-profit that was formed by Rabbi Aron Lieberman, director of Chabad of Greater Ft. Lauderdale, is suing Deutsche Bank, saying they are the rightful heirs to the assets of what was one of pre-war Germany’s wealthiest families. Their estimates put the amount of the assets in question at $3 billion.
Friendship Circle Girls Enjoy Zumba Recital
A winter Motzei Shabbos may seem to drag on and on, but for a group of young woman with special needs, it never seemed long enough: The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s Young Adult Division (Girls) recently completed a 9 week ZUMBA fitness workshop. Under the direction of Mushki Tenenbaum and Zumba instructor Numi Perla, 40 girls got together every Saturday evening for sixty minutes of ‘non-stop’ dance and exercise.
Picture of the Day: Letters Give Light
Chasidic Artist Yitzchok Moully’s latest masterpiece is an engraved rendering of the first page of Tanya, with letters that give off a shining light. “When we learn the Tanya we reveal the hidden light; the letters of the Tanya are the source of the light,” the artist says.
Chabad Delegation is Menachem Avel Belzer Rebbe
A delegation of Chabad Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel arrived at the home of the Belzer Rebbe, Rabbi Yissachar Dov Rokeach, to offer condolences to him after the passing of his mother, Mrs. Miriam Glick, the Bilgoray Rebbetzin, OBM.
New Caledonia: 91st Country/Territory with Chabad
The temperature is in the mid-80s right now in New Caledonia. The sun beckons, the sea sparkles, and the Jewish community . . . well, it’s small. An estimated 250 Jews live in this archipelago in the Southwest Pacific out of a total population of about 268,000. It is the 91st country/territory to have a Chabad center.
Weekly JLI Video: A Lesson in Rebuke
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Va’era is titled: A Lesson in Rebuke.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Yanky Hillel, 17, OBM
With great sadness, shock and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Meir Yaakov Yosef (Yanky) Hillel OBM, of Montreal, Canada, who had been bravely battling an illness. He was 17 years old.
California Shliach Curates Unique Judaica Collection
When Cupertino, California representative Rabbi Reuven Goldstein visited New York’s Morgan Museum in 2010, he saw an original Mishneh Torah, written in Maimonides’s own hand. The rabbi, who has always been interested in Jewish history, was inspired to start a collection of old Jewish books. His first piece was the Soncino Talmud from the year 1515, the first Talmud to be printed.
Video: Smartphone Blindness
In a video that aims to impart an important lesson, a man walks down a Jerusalem Street with a walking stick to help him navigate, but he isn’t blind in the conventional sense.
Video: One Crazy Weekend
With over a thousand students from around the world in attendance, the Chabad on Campus Shabbaton last month in Crown Heights was an amazing weekend full of learning, inspiration, and excitement. Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson was on hand to document the experience.
Frum Man Assaulted for Using Smartphone
Monsey resident 29-year-old Refael Koenig was beaten for using his iPhone to record a Spring Valley chasenah he was attending last week, Channel 12 News reported.
Video: A Chasidic Dance with Alex Jones
A group of Lubavitcher Trump supporters from Crown Heights was present at the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. this past Friday. While there, they bumped into fiery conservative radio commentator Alex Jones of Info Wars, who joined them for a brief Chasidic dance.
NYC to Pay Up to $75 Million for Bogus Summonses
New York City has agreed to pay up to $75 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that accused police officers of writing at least 900,000 summonses for offenses like trespassing, disorderly conduct and urinating in public that were later dismissed because of legal insufficiency.
Boruch Dayan Ho’emes: Reb Sholom Ber Gorelik, 75, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Sholom Ber Gorelik, OBM, veteran Chosid and prominent member of the community of Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel. He was 75 years old.
Video: How to Know When You Are Truly Free
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’era. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you know when you are truly free?
