For the second year in its history, the Australian National Menorah was lit in the Parliament of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, on the eight day of Chanukah, the festival of lights. The event was organized by Chabad-ACT.
Fourteen people were mildly poisoned by a toxic substance that was applied to the keypad of an electronic lock of a synagogue south of Paris.
“To stay or to go?” was the question that puzzled organizers of the International CTeen Shabbaton ever since the conclusion of last year’s Shabbaton.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
Levi Ainsworth (Melbourne, Australia) and Toby Bartfield (Coral Springs, FL)
Yisroel Dovid Pekkar (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chaya Faigy Levilev (Crown Heights)
Anash and Bochurim gathered at Beis Rivka Campus Chomesh for the annual Central Hey Teves Farbrengen. One highlight of the evening was a riveting speech by Nat Lewin, one of the lawyers who helped secure a victory in the Seforim case.
Shmulie and Raizy (nee Gottleib) Margolin (Cleavland, OH)
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, as we read in this week’s Parsha about the descent of Yaakov to Mitzrayim and the beginning of our first golus, we present an in-depth letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the “why” of personal challenges, as well as the communal challenges of our people, as experienced in golus. 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.
One of the Rebbes instructions marking Hey Teves was the encouragement to buy Seforim. Honoring this Kehot has been hosting a sale, marking down Seforim by as much as 50% off. Hundreds have been taking advantage in person, with thousands around the world placing their orders by phone or online.
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street held today their annual Hey Teves Seforim fare. There were over 100 titles available ranging from classic children’s books to new stories to books in Yiddish and Hebrew and a large assortment of Seforim.
Celebrating a chassideshe Yom Tov in a most appropriate manner was the goal of the PTA, as they held their 12th annual Hey Teves Book Fair.
The townspeople of Zhitomir were not all that pleased. “This sefer is much too overpriced,” they declared. “A sefer of this size is never sold for even close to such a sum!”
Binyomin and Estee Steinmetz (Thornhill, Ontario)
More than 250 people gathered outside of Shoprite Mall in Liberty, NY, on Motzei Shabbos, December 12th, the seventh night of Chanukah, for the historic lighting of a grand Chanukah Menorah.
In honor of Hey Teves, noted attorney Nat Lewin, who served as one of the lawyers in the federal court case over ownership of the library, spoke to a crowd of Beis Rivka high school students and related some of the story as he witnessed it.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Vayigash. This week Rabbi Benny answers the questions: When Joseph reveals himself to his brothers, him and Benjamin embrace and weep together, because they each foresaw the other’s future suffering and destruction… But why weep for the other guy when they should have each just wept for themselves?
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