Rabbi Gershon Overlander, Director of the Chabad House of Hendon in London, UK, launched his own little campaign against the BDS movement (the “Boycott Divestment and Sanctions” movement against Israel), with a creative bumper sticker that reads: BSD we’ll beat BDS!
The wave of Palestinian terror continues, as another three stabbing attacks occurred in Israel today, following three similar attacks that occurred yesterday.
Update: Fourth stabbing attack today occurs in Afula.
David and Shoshana Levi (Coral Springs, FL)
Joe Davidovitz is a philanthropist and property developer in Johannesburg, South Africa. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in August of 2014.
Yisroel and Vita (nee Zeiler) New (Jerusalem, Israel)
Levi (ben Kasriel) Sudak (Crown Heights) and Tzaity (bas Shmuel) Marasow (Crown Heights)
Investigators now say that the Saturday explosion in an apartment building in Borough Park that left two people dead might have been intentional.
At a State Department Briefing with Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner, an AP journalist called out the Obama Administration for its blatant hypocrisy: Last year, the Administration called Israel’s shelling of a terrorist-harboring school in Gaza “appalling” and “disgraceful,” yet they refused to condemn with similar language an American bombing of an Afghan hospital they accused of harboring Taliban insurgents.
Mendush and Mushky (nee Wilhelm) Naparstek (Lausanne, Switzerland)
This year, for the second year in a row, Pesichas Haaron for the daytime Hakafos at Empire Shtiebel in Crown Heights was ‘sold’ to the children in exchange for Mishnayos Baal Peh. Unlike last year, when it was sold for a mere 100 Mishnayos shared by 3 boys (33 Mishanyos each), this year the boys kept bidding until it reached the staggering amouint of 1,000 Mishnayos baal Peh!
The Vaad Hashluchim to Eretz Hakodesh has released a statement calling on Chabad Chassidim worldwide to dedicate their Farbrengens this Shabbos Bereishis to one of their veteran members – Rabbi Aaron Eliezer ben Rivkah Tseitlin, who is battling a malignant tumor and is in dire need of a Refuah Sheleimah.
Benzion and Chaya Mushka (nee Yarmush) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
In the third such attack today, a Palestinian terrorist stabbed a 25-year-old Lubavitcher man from Kfar Chabad in the central Israeli city of Petach Tikvah.
A wave of terror has hit Israel today, with four attacks having occurred just by midday – leaving many fearing that a third Palestinian uprising – or ‘Intifada’ – has begun. In one incident, a quick-thinking Chabad boy saved an untold number of civilian lives by shutting an armed terrorist out of his apartment building.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to name the city’s Municipal Building after early 90’s mayor David Dinkins raised some eyebrows over at the New York Post on Friday.
A grand Simchas Beis Hashoeva celebration was held at Chabad-Ontario headquarters in the Thornhill area of Toronto, attended by hundreds of revelers who danced joyously until the late hours of the night.
Shimon Tewel (Crown Heights) and Hadas Horovitz (N. Miami Beach, FL)
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