The Holocaust Survivors Club at Century Village in Boca Raton, Florida, had a special treat at its monthly meeting in October when 10 local college students from the Chabad Student Center visited their meeting.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present an in-depth letter from the Rebbe on the purpose of challenges from G-d. 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.
A company with multiple other facilities is opening a new urgent care center in Crown Heights, with over 20 exam rooms, x-ray machines and a wide range of services which will be available for patient needs. CrownHeights.info got an exclusive sneak peek inside the new center.
Every seat of the 1000-person capacity banquet-hall of the Conejo Valley’s Hyatt Westlake Hotel was filled as renowned author, commentator and radio talk-show personality, Dennis Prager, took to the podium to address the topic “In Search of America’s Moral Compass – on Domestic and Global Issues,” as part of the Conejo Jewish Academy’s ongoing lecture series on current issues of the day.
In the works for over 14 years, Chabad House Publications announced the release of the much-anticipated Synagogue Edition of the Kehot Publication Society Chumash.
Shmuli and Toby (nee Tenenbaum) Lewis (Crown Heights)
In light of the current dire situation in the Holy Land, Jewish singing superstar Mordechai Ben David has released a soul-stirring new single, featuring the words beseeching the almighty ‘Nekom Nikmas dam Avodecho Hashofuch’ (Avenge the blood of your servants that was spilled). The song is available for free download via a link in the extended article.
Recently, as they exited their vehicle to engage the Palestinian rock throwers attacking them, a group of Israeli Defense Forces soldiers were run over by a Palestinian car that came out of the darkness headed straight toward them at a high rate of speed.
Yackov Shmuel Golomb (Sheffield, UK) and Messody Ezagui (Palm Beach Gardens, FL)
As the Kinus HaShluchim is just a few weeks away, the Oholei Torah Archive Office is pleased to share the second video in a series of highlights from the alumni reunions held over the past 20 years.
Levi Wilansky (Portland, ME) and Hindy Naparstek (Myrtle Beach, SC)
The holy city of Chevron was the scene of two separate knife attacks against Israeli security forces this morning, Thursday, resulting in the shooting deaths of both Palestinian terrorists.
The Charedi Mishpacha newspaper created a social media firestorm on Thursday after it published an opinion article in which the first paragraph, printed in Arabic and in Hebrew, asked that since members of the Charedi public do not go up to the Temple Mount “could you please stop murdering us.”
Motti and Devorah Leah (nee Clapman) Cohen (Crown Heights)
Longtime district manager of Brooklyn Community Board 9 Pearl Miles was ousted yesterday, and she has since filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, claiming he and others schemed to discriminate against her based on her age.
Mr. Elimelech Leiman was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his Jerusalem home in May of 2011.
Shoshana Michel, 59, started playing piano when she was just a child. A door-to-door salesman for a local music studio came by and asked if anyone in the house wanted to take music lessons. She started on the accordion at the age of 7, and then moved on to piano shortly after.
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