Viznitzer Rebbe Makes Special Visit to 770
The Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager Shlita, made a special visit to 770 – the Lubavitch World Headquarters, a first since Gimmel Tammuz.
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Armory and Marine Terminal Get Makeovers
Months of preparation are culminating in this final stretch of round-the-clock hustle and bustle as the untiring Kinus staff puts the finishing touches to what will be the largest International Kinus Hashluchim ever yet.
Photos: Levaya of Mrs. Sara Deren OBM
Dozens of friends and relatives of Mrs. Sara Deren (nee Cohen) OBM, who passed away suddenly this morning, gathered in front of 770 on Monday night to partake in her Levaya. From there the procession made its way to John F. Kennedy International Airport on its way to Israel.
After BDS Debate Win, Dershowitz Addresses Oxford Chabad Society
On Sunday, 1st of November, Professor Alan Dershowitz addressed a full-capacity hall of Jewish students at the Oxford Chabad Society after having successfully debated the BDS movement at the Oxford Union. The much-anticipated events were well attended; a full chamber of 250 people at the union, and around 200 at the Chabad society.
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Eliyahu and Chumi (nee Bukiet) Andrusier (Crown Heights)
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Dovi and Chana (nee Cohen) Lesches (Crown Heights)
Video: How Do You Know When Something Is Holy?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you know when something is Holy?
From Days Gone By: Kinus Hashluchim, 1990
Several Shluchim gather for a seminar at the International Kinus Hashluchim in 1990. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Friendship Circle Walk Raises $1.4 Million
The Friendship Circle of South Bay in Los Angeles, founded and directed by Rabbi Yossi Mintz, raised a whopping $1.4 million during its 7th annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, which is sponsored by Skechers.
Reb Isser Lubecki (left) with Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, OBM.
Deaf Yeshiva Student Completes Whole Talmud
Rabbi Isser Lubecki, now married and serving as a Chabad Shliach in Paris, France, will make a stopover in Toronto on his way to the Kinus Hashluchim in New York this year. The purpose of this stopover is to pay a visit to his former Yeshiva, Nefesh Dovid – a Yeshiva that caters to Bochurim who are deaf – where he will make a Siyum on the entire Shas in front of his beaming former teachers and classmates.
Music Video: Chevron, City of Mine
Rabbi Shmuel Kopel, originally from Crown Heights, recently moved to Tzfas, Israel, to perform Shlichus there. In honor of the upcoming “Shabbat Chevron” weekend, which coincides every year with Parshas Chayei Sarah – in which Avraham purchased the Me’aras Hamachpelah – he composed, recorded and filmed this music video about the holy city of our forefathers.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Tuesday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 3, for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
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Yehuda and Sarah (nee Spangenthal) Dukes (Crown Heights)
Four Israelis Wounded in Two Stabbing Attacks Today
A Palestinian terrorist wounded three Israelis in a stabbing attack in Rishon Letzion, and a 71-year-old Israeli man was stabbed in Netanya today in a non-ending wave of Palestinian violence that broke out over a month ago.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Sara Deren, 38, OBM
With great shock and deep pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Mrs. Sara (nee Cohen) Deren, OBM, wife of Shliach Rabbi Mendy Deren, OBM, who passed away five years ago. She was 38 years old, just one month shy of her 39th birthday.
Chabad Now Operates in Record 86 Countries
The annual global conference of Chabad emissaries, or shluchim, will begin at week’s end in New York City. About 3,500 shluchim are expected to take part, and to discuss matters at the center of Jewish life worldwide.
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Shmuly and Sara Leah (nee Spielman) Shuchat (Crown Heights)
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