While he was mayor of Burlington, Vermont, U.S. presidential candidate Bernie Sanders defended Chabad of Vermont’s public menorah, one of the first politicians in the country to do so. He later declared the Rebbe’s birthday, Yud aleph Nissan, as Education Day, which the Rebbe personally thanked him for in a letter.
Rabbi Yehoshua B. (Josh) Gordon, who passed away on Monday at the age of 66, speaks of the Rebbe’s directive to him and and his wife as they first set out on their Shlichus to the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles, CA, in a video filmed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project.
A Lubavitcher man in his 30s was stabbed in the back by an African-American man on the corner of Empire Blvd. and Kingston Avenue in Crown Heights. The attacker fled the scene and is at large. The public is asked to please say Tehillim for Yehuda Leib ben Rivkah Alta.
A Jerusalem court issued a verdict ordering a young Lubavitcher woman to pay some 75,000 shekels after she was sued by her prospective groom for cancelling their wedding just over 2 weeks before it was set to take place.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Terumah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we find strength to overcome the challenges of exile?
Yosef Yitzchok Raichik (Crown Heights) and Chana Steinmetz (S. Paulo, Brazil)
The University of Illinois has indefinitely suspended a softball player and suspended a men’s gymnast for their parts in vandalizing a Menorah in front of the Chabad Center. This was the third time the menorah had been vandalized this year.
When was the last time you had your dryer vent cleaned? Lint and debris can build up in your clothes dryer duct causing your dryer to exhaust at less than optimum efficiency. This creates potentially hazardous conditions including carbon monoxide intrusion and the possibility for fires.
Osher and Itty (nee Barber) Broh (Crown Heights)
Jedidiah Murphy has spent the last 15 years on death row in Livingston, Texas. Like all of the men in the Polunsky Unit, he’s been convicted of terrible crimes. On Oct. 4, 2000, high on cocaine, he shot and killed a 79-year-old woman, stole her car, and used her credit cards to purchase alcohol and cigarettes. Less than a year later, at the age of 25, he was sentenced to death.
Over the next 5 weeks all 6 Pre-1A classes will be having their Siddur parties in the main ballroom, together with their parents and extended family members.
Crown Heights accountant and financial adviser Asher Lieblich recently published a book titled “The Gift of Wealth,” whose theme is time-tested strategies to build, protect, and preserve wealth. He recently hosted a book-launch event and seminar, followed by a question-and-answer session, which was attended by 150 members of the community.
A 30-year-old Israeli man was moderately wounded in a terror stabbing Tuesday evening at the entrance to the Nave Daniel settlement in the West Bank’s Gush Etzion bloc.
At the wedding of Yossi Bukiet and Rivka Inglis in Boca Raton yesterday, the Chosson’s uncle, Jewish singing star Shlomo Simcha Sufrin, accompanied by other members of the Sufrin family, performed a soul-stirring rendition of the songs ‘Im Eshkocheich Yerushalayim’ and ‘Mi Adir.’
Another round of snow is on the way to the Tri-State area for Wednesday morning. The AccuWeather forecast is calling for a coating to two inches of snow for most of the region, with the higher amounts expected on the south shore of Long Island.
The Admor of Biala Lenchna davens at the Ohel of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe and the Rebbe in Queens, accompanied by a small entourage of his Chassidim.
Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson is back with his latest comedy sketch: Chaim Yisrael is new the newest member of the synagogue and is honored with Hagbah (the lifting of the Torah after its reading). What could possibly go wrong?
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