Shabbos at the Besht: Why Do We Blow the Shofar Twice?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner will lead a discussion on the topic – Tekios meyushov or me’umad: Why do we blow the shofar twice?
‘Yaldei’ Hosts their 8th Regional Retreat in S. Diego
This summer, Yaldei hosted its 8th Regional Parent Respite Program. West Coast Shluchim gathered in sunny San Diego for three days of educational seminars, recreational activities and time to bond with other shluchim raising children with special needs.
Video: Shliach Blows Shofar at Dodgers Stadium
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Dodgers held a Jewish Community Day at Dodgers Stadium. Before the first pitch Shliach Rabbi Yossi Mintz blew Shofar in front of the gathering crowd.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during davening at a children’s rally in 1987.
Picture of the Day: Kvutzeh 5775 Group Photo
Bochurim of ‘Kvutzeh 5775’ who have been studying in 770 over the past year posed for a group photo yesterday.
Yaldei Hashluchim Recharge at Mini Camps
Hundreds of Yaldey Hashluchim from all over Europe and Ukraine enjoyed min camps throughout the summer with help from MyShliach and Merkos Suite 302.
Rabbi Leibel Fine, co-director of Chabad Dollard in Canada, has a tradition of blowing the shofar for the homebound on Rosh Hashanah.
Chabad Brings Sound of the Shofar to the Homebound
Allan Sheff “will never forget” when Rabbi Leibel Fine came to his doorstep with a shofar in hand. “It was the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and I wasn’t feeling well and hadn’t been able to attend synagogue. That afternoon there was a knock at the door, and there was Leibel, who’d recently arrived with his wife, Chana, to establish a Chabad House.
Baby Boy!
Moshe and Miriam Silver (Crown Heights
NYPD Reports Lowest Summer Shootings in 20 Years
The New York City Police Department is saying this has been the safest summer in over 20 years.
Photo: Leisah Woldoff / Arizona Jewish News.
Picture of the Day: Phoenix Cheder Gets New Home
Rabbi Zalman Levertov, founder and director of Chabad of Arizona, hangs one of the mezuzahs at the new building of Cheder Lubavitch of Arizona, accompanied by the school’s third-grade class.
Photos: Ukraine Shluchim Gather in Dnepropetrovsk
The team of Chabad Shluchim operating in the Eastern European nation of Ukraine, which is currently embroiled in a war with Russian-backed separatists in the east, gathered in the city of Dnepropetrovsk for a regional Kinus to share ideas and inspiration. The kinus was hosted by Shliach and chief rabbi of the city Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, and was attended by Merkos vice-chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.
Photo: Yeshiva World News.
5 American Bochurim Escape Arab Lynching
A car with five American Yeshiva Bochrim narrowly escaped a lynching this afternoon, after they got lost on their way to the Me’aras Hamchpela in Chevron and ended up in an Arab neighborhood.
In the Ancient City of Hebron, Chabad Center Celebrates a Special Bar Mitzvah: Its Own
It’s impossible to know how many bar mitzvahs have been celebrated in this most ancient of Jewish cities in the last 3,700 years since the patriarch Abraham purchased his family’s burial plot here. It’s just as difficult to determine how many Chassidic celebrations and milestones have been marked since the second Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe—Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the Mittler Rebbe—purchased property in this holy city more than 200 years ago.
L-R Rabbi Perl discussing this project with Gary S. Shapiro, Nassau County Police Deputy Inspector, Commanding Officer, Community Affairs.
Chabad of Mineola: ‘Thank You Police!’
With the recent scourge of Police personnel being attacked around the country, Chabad of Mineola, NY, has launched a new ‘Thank You Police Officer’ project.
Here’s My Story: Machine vs. Mystic
Dr. Les Rosenthal practices dentistry in Encino, California. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in September of 2011. His story was featured on a Glimpse through the Veil, Volume 1.
Laws and Customs: Week of Selichos, Pruzbul
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the week of Selichos, including Erev Rosh Hashana and Pruzbul, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
From Days Gone By: Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, 1930s
Sunday marked the 118th anniversary of the founding of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch Russia. In this photo, students of the Yeshiva study and converse in front of its home in Otwock, Poland, where it relocated after the Previous Rebbe was expelled from Russia in 1927. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
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