With anticipation builds for Sunday’s final showdown, Yesterday, 139 student finalists from around the world descended upon the Jewish Children’s Museum. They were divided up into three teams: “Yad Hachazaka” “Sefer Hamitzvos” and “Peirush Hamishnayos,” and given ID cards to match.
Bochurim enrolled in the Semicha program at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ posed for a group photo together with the schools dean Rabbi Moshe Herson and the Menahel Ruchni Rabbi Chaim Schapiro.
Shmuly And Devoree (nee Miller) Axelrod (Crown Heights)
Over 1000 men, women and children gathered in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, to partake in the Levaya of Rabbi Binyomin Klein OBM one of the Rebbe’s trusted secretaries.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yakov D. Cohen will lead a discussion on the topic: The United Nations, from the inside out.
We present the following photo gallery of the illustrious life of Reb Binyomin Klein, OBM, trusted secretary and devoted Chossid of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who passed away last night at the age of 79. The photos are courtesy of Lubavitch Archives.
The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall on Crown and Albany in Crown Heights was swarming with hundreds of boys this past Thursday evening, 17 Sivan, ready to receive their long-awaited “sefarim vouchers” that they earned this year by attending Yeshivas Erev Yehuda Kalman.
Victor Espinoza, a jockey who plans to compete in the upcoming Belmont Stakes horse race, visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens yesterday to say a prayer – and perhaps get a dose of divine intervention.
Following a tradition of 25 years, Oholei Torah Mesivta, led by Rabbi Zushe Wilhelm, had a campaign to finish the entire Mesechta of the year ba’al peh, which this year is Meseches Gittin.
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the sudden passing of Rabbi Yerachmiel Binyomin HaLevi Klein OBM one of the Rebbe’s Mazkirim. He was 79 years old. Levaya times updated in the Extended Article.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during the distribution of Kos Shel Bracha, 1987.
Berel and Shternie (nee Stock) Hassan (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he addresses a number of questions on the seeming contradiction between G-d’s omniscience and man’s free will, evolution and Aggadah on medicine. 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.
In what has become an annual tradition for Rabbi Borenstein’s seventh grade class, they all got together in the backyard of his Balfore Place home for a Siyum and a barbeque.
As Rio de Janeiro prepares to host the summer 2016 Olympics, the city’s local Jewish community is busy with its own preparations.
Chief Rabbi Zalman Zaklas announced the opening of the very first kosher restaurant in Novosibirsk, Russia. The new eatery, named “Jerusalem Cafe’” offers a well rounded menu of kosher dishes and is centrally located in the Bait Menachem Community Center.
Maychee and Shaindy (nee Cadaner) Sherr (Crown Heights)
