New Engagement!
Mendy Hildeshaim (Crown Heights) and Mushky Fellig (Montreal, Canada)
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New Engagement!
Moshe Chayim Silverstein (Crown Heights) and Sarah Nessah Isaac (Los Angeles, CA)
Gett-Refuser Awarded 100,000 Shekels
A rabbinical court in Israel granted 100,000 shekels to Haifa resident who refused a Gett for 14 years.
Video: Should One Rely 100% on G-d?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shelach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Are we supposed to rely 100% on G-d?
From Days Gone By: Beis Rivka, Mid 1980s
A classroom-full of girls study diligently in this 30-year-old photo from Beis Rivka, taken in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Twin Boys!
Shmaya and Rivkah (nee Stosgofsky) Krinsky (Crown Heights)
Senator Lieberman Menachem Avel the Klein Family
Former Connecticut United States Senator Joseph Lieberman was menachem avel the Klein family earlier today, who is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Rabbi Binyomin Klein OBM, one the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s trusted secretaries.
5-6th Graders Rewarded for Mishnayos Baal Peh
This year, Oholei Torah’s 5th and 6th grades took their Mishnayos Ba’al Peh program to a whole new level, with a grand Chalukas HaPrasim, distribution of awards, which took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom. Over 350 parents, grandparents and friends joined as the talmidim walked off the stage with Seforim, some of them heavier than the talmidim themselves!
Video: Emotional Bar Mitzvah for 89-Year-Old Survivor
A Holocaust survivor who referred to himself as only a ‘half-Jew’ – since he never had a Bar Mitzvah – while speaking to a group of 8th grade boys from a Chicago-area Chabad school, ended up having an impromptu Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Skokie Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
Video: What You Must Know Before Sending Your Kids to Camp
In the coming weeks, thousands of parents in our community will send their children to overnight camp. For most, this will be a thrilling experience with wonderful friendships and memories to last a lifetime.
Montreal Chabad Distributes Water at Tour de L’ile
Last Sunday was Montreal’s annual “tour de l’Ile” cycling event, where over 25,000 bikers traversed the island of Montreal in three routes that all started at the corner of Parc and Mont-Royal.
Info to Be Menachem Avel Shaul Family
Brothers Zelig and Naftali Shaul are sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, R’ Yisroel Shaul, OBM, at 1103 Sterling Place [corner Kingston Ave.] Apt. #1B, until Sunday morning. Shacharis at 8:00; Mincha at 7:30 – Wednesday and Thursday; Maariv bizmana […]
Chabad Rabbi Inspired South Carolina’s Anti BDS Law
South Carolina passed a historic bill into law that will make businesses think twice before boycotting Israel. Although the law, signed by the state’s Governor Nikki Haley, does not mention Israel as the recent one passed by the state of Illinois does, it will in fact make the state sever ties with companies that boycott Israel.
A Remarkable Legacy Continues at ULY
Rabbi Yossi Simpson, principal of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown Street, greeted students from Grades 1- 4 for a special commemoration. For the 12th consecutive year, the yeshiva students memorized thousands of lines of Tanya in memory of a special neshoma, Bat Sheva Kanelsky, OBM, who passed away 65 days after birth, on the 10th of Adar, 2003.
Oholei Torah Zal Poses for Group Portrait
The students of Oholei Torah Zal gathered in front of 770 for a group portrait, along with the Yeshiva’s faculty.
New Girls’ High School to Open in Jerusalem
How many parents struggle to find the “right” school for their daughters? One that takes into account every girl’s unique strengths as well as acknowledging their challenges, be they academic, spiritual, or social? A school that does not force a girl into a box, but rather, builds the box around the girls? A school where quiet girls are acknowledged, rewarded and appreciated as much as the “ra-ra” GO types.
