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)
Effie Shaw (Monsey, NY) and Rassy Hott (Monsey, NY)
Avrumi Engel (Montreal, Canada) and Leah Polter (Monsey, NY)
A demonstration will be held today, Wednesday, outside the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan at 4:30pm. The aim of the gathering is to demand action from the Israeli government to protect its people, and to show solidarity with our brothers and sisters in Israel who are suffering under a wave of Palestinian terror attacks.
Mrs. Sara Chazan is sitting Shiva after the passing of her sister, Marsha Jampolsky, OBM, at 734 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] until Tuesday morning. Visiting hours are from 10:00am to 1:00pm, and from 4:00pm to 10:00pm. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem […]
Shmuel and Chaya (nee Mishulovin) Super (Crown Heights)
The Kinus Vaad is pleased to announce that Rabbi Shloime Chein, Shliach and director of the Chabad Student Center at University of California in S. Cruz, CA has been selected to deliver the keynote address at the upcoming Kinus Hashluchim Gala Banquet 5776/2015.
After Shachris at the Marina Roscha Chabad synagogue in Moscow, Russia, the congregants took bundles of five Aravos and banged them on the ground five times, concluding the Hoshanos prayers that are recited each day of Sukkos.
What do the Jewish business people in Chengdu, China, and the inmates in the Federal Correction Facility in Danbury, Conn., have in common? Come Simchat Torah, they’ll be among the 16 communities to be dancing with newly refurbished Torah scrolls that just arrived to their congregations via the Beis Yisroel Torah Gemach.
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