The Chofetz Chaim than asked, are you feeling any pull in the heart to the ways of chassidim? Once again the young man replied, “No.” So why are you asking this question, inquired the Chofetz Chaim.
According to the Jewish calendar, a second month of Adar is added in a leap-year. While Purim is usually celebrated in Adar, during a leap-year it is postponed until the second Adar, and we mark Purim Katan – “the small Purim” in the first month.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a collection of unique photos of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha in the late 1960s.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tzvi Rimler, Maggid Shiur emeritus for Yagdil Torah and Mashgiach for the OK, will lead a discussion on the topic – Highlights of the halachos of kaddish.
Hailing from Kiev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kherson, nearly 70 children recently gathered in the idyllic countryside near Zhitomir, Ukraine for an action-packed, inspirational shabbaton, coordinated by CKids and Rabbis Goodman and Glick of Chabad Kiev, together with Shiurei Torah Lubavitch – Dnepropetrovsk. Back in the United States, 20 children from the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region took part in their own CKids shabbaton hosted by the Cohens of Mainline, PA that same week, and 25 boys from across the Dallas, Texas area joined the Dubrawskys and Naparsteks of Chabad of Dallas for a unique Shabbos experience just one week later.
She’s only 14, but earlier this month, Estee Ackerman became a member of a very exclusive club when the Shabbat-observant teen participated in the U.S. Olympic Trials.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he gives interesting insights into the mitzovos in general, the mitzvah of taharas ha’mishpacha in particular and into the fascinating concept of the retroactive impact of a resolution to observe the Torah and mitzvos. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Berel Thaler (Los Angeles, CA) and Nechama Kendall (Montreal, Canada)
West Africa will open the doors to its very first state-of-the-art mikveh in late spring 2016. Launched at the initiative of Rabbi Israel and Haya Uzan, Chabad representatives to Abuja, capital of Nigeria, construction began in late January. The ritual bath will also serve residents and visitors in the country’s most populated city, Lagos, 339 miles from Abuja.
Lubavitcher Chosid and pro-Israel activist Dovid Efune, Editor-in-Chief of the Algemeiner Journal, sits down for an exclusive interview with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Young activists and entrepreneurs from the Jewish community met for the first time with Assemblywoman Diana Richardson, who represents Crown Heights in the New York State Assembly. Among the topics discussed were affordable housing, traffic and the recent stabbing of a young Jewish man.
Leibi Brikman, the newly married young man who was stabbed last week in broad daylight in the heart of Crown Heights, was getting ready to be released from Kings County Hospital, when things turned sour and his lung collapsed again. He was transferred by Hatzalah to NYU Hospital and underwent yet another procedure.
Close to 2,000 people gathered in Paris last night for an evening of salute and support for the Beis Lubavitch Educational Institute, under the leadership of Rabbi Mendel Azimov.
Though Mrs. Rivky M. always looked forward to attending the Kinus Hashluchos and usually returned home uplifted, she often felt “a bit of a disconnect.” Living with her family on shlichus in a small South American town, “many of the ideas that are shared do not apply to me,” she says. “Our challenges are unique and not usually addressed and, having no sisters or relatives who come in for the Kinus, I often feel like the odd one out.”
Two Palestinians armed with knives entered a supermarket near Jerusalem in the West Bank and stabbed two Israeli civilians, killing one and wounding the other, before they were shot and wounded by an Israeli bystander.
Shua and Elkie Piekarski (Crown Heights)
Moshe Banda (Boro Park, NY) and Tsivia Berkes (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
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