In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, as we read in this week’s Parsha about the enslavement of the Jews in Egypt, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the state and nature of the land of Egypt – in the time of Yaakov and Yosef and today. 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.
Grab this perfect InfoDeal!
Koonie Astronaut Portable Stroller Fan
Baby-Safe Clip-on with Detachable Flexible Tripod
Rechargeable Battery-Operated, 3-Speeds
270° Rotation – Ideal for Car Seats, Cribs, Treadmills
DEAL PRICE: $5.48 (66% OFF)
ORIGINAL PRICE: $15.99
Grab The Deal Through Amazon: Click Here
This Motzai Shabbos, men and women are invited to join Hatzalah of Crown Heights for a Melava Malka, featuring a hot buffet and wine tasting, alongside a health symposium and entertainment by Benshimon Orchestra and singing sensation Eli Marcus. Also, a $500-value Garmen Forerunner 920XT sports-watch and a $200-value case of assorted fine wines will be raffled off among those in attendance.
Yossi and Rivky (nee Paris) Horowitz (Crown Heights)
Zushe and Chaya (nee Aizenman) Wilmowsky (Crown Heights)
Palestinian incitement uses the very same anti-Semitic motives used by Nazi propaganda in the dark 1930s. This incitement is translated into actual terror attacks against Jews. 24 people have been slaughtered in terror attacks against Israelis in the current wave of Palestinian violence.
Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the leading haredi authorities on Jewish law, instructed members of the United Hatzalah paramedic organization not to treat injured terrorists in a meeting Thursday.
WhatsApp, a messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered outages in parts of Europe, America and Canada for a short period on Thursday, leaving people unable to send or receive messages.
Like many young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbis, Rabbi Mendel Jacobs grew up watching and learning how to serve a Jewish community directly from his parents, who have run a Jewish pre-school in Cleveland for many years.
An app that can differentiate between a variety of crying sounds made by babies has been developed by Taiwanese researchers.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Friday, January 1, for New Year’s.
Sholom Kanevsky (Crown Heights) and Sari Flint (Crown Heights)
A Palestinian terrorist rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem.
In honor of its 60th year campaign, we present to our readers a selection of six never-released-before pictures of Oholei Torah, taken in the 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
Rabbi Zev Segal (1917–2008) served for 33 years as the rabbi of the Young Israel of Newark. He held various leadership positions with the Rabbinical Council of America, including that of president from 1968 to 1971. After his retirement from the rabbinate, he devoted most of his time to working for Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in May of 2007.
Police are investigating an unprovoked assault on an Orthodox-Jewish student of Medgar Evers college in Crown Heights as a possible hate crime.
According to a Wall Street Journal report, the United States spied on Israeli officials during Iranian nuclear talks, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. According to the report appearing on Tuesday, the National Security Agency was instructed to monitor the Israelis during the sensitive talks, highlighting the extent of mistrust that exists between Washington and Jerusalem.
Talented Rabbis and CPDs (Co-Program Directors) Levi Druin and Lavi Klein are at the forefront of Wayz, Darchai Menachem’s revolutionary Enrichment Program. In honor of this year’s Hakhel theme, the dedicated CPDs have chosen unity-themed projects to enhance the students’ Jewish pride.
1
