London Yeshiva Marks Completion of Maseches Gittin
It was a full house for the the 33rd annual Siyum at Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch-London, which celebrated the completion of Mesechtas Gittin by a number of its Talmidim.
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JEM Introduces WhatsApp Series on Parenting
This Monday, JEM will be starting a 10-part series over WhatsApp on the topic of parenting. The videos will be sent to the over 7,000 subscribers of their daily videos broadcasts.
Twin Sisters, Married to Twin Brothers, Give Birth 20 Minutes Apart
In what is being reported as a “first in the world”, two Orthodox-Jewish twin sisters in Israel, who are married to twin brothers, gave birth to girls 20 minutes apart.
Crown Heights Teen’s Uplifting Poem Goes Viral
A Crown Heights teen, 11th grader Chanie Gorkin, is getting credit for writing an uplifting poem that has been getting a lot of attention on social media in the United States and especially the United Kingdom.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during the distribution of dollars in the large Shul of 770, taken in the early 1990s.
Baby Girl!
Yanky and Melissa Laine (Crown Heights)
Letter & Spirit: The Cause of the Churban
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of Tisha B’av, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza and how it explains the reason for the churban Bais Hamikdash. From the cause of the problem, says the Rebbe, we can learn the solution. 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.
Photos: CGI-Montreal Enjoys Grand Trip to Theme Park
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal enjoyed the first month’s grand trip to La Ronde, an amusement park in Quebec.
Brooklyn Jews Increasingly Turning to Self-Defense
Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews are arming themselves with potentially deadly weapons – their own bodies: CBS2 reports that a growing number of religious Jews are taking self-defense classes in martial arts with Sensai Steve Issak who developed and teaches a course he calls Shima Juijitsu.
Brunoy Mesivta Celebrates Completion of Masechta
The Mesivta division of Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France, gathered together Monday for a Kinus Torah, celebrating the completion of Maseches Brochos, which the students diligently studied throughout the year.
Sam Jurkowicz and Menachem Light at the Brooklyn headquarters of Buggy.
Op-Ed: Uber’s Victory Against De Blasio a Win For All Entrepreneurs
Writing for Forbes, Crown Heights entrepreneur Zalmi Duchman explains why Uber’s victory over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is a victory for all entrepreneurs, and brings as an example a new successful startup by two fellow Crown Heightsers – Menachem Light and Sam Jurkovitz – to illustrate his point.
Injured IDF Soldiers Experience Eight Days in Canada
Six IDF soldiers who were injured during last summer’s incursion into Gaza experienced Canada as part of an eight-day trip co-sponsored and organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler (Crown Heights)
Laws and Customs: Shabbos Chazon and Tishah B’Av
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Shabbos Chazon and Tishah B’Av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Video: Thousands Protest Iran Deal in Times Square
Thousands of protesters packed into Times Square Wednesday evening to demand that Congress vote down the proposed U.S. deal with Iran.
Here’s My Story: Deeper Than Psychoanalysis
Rabbi Azriel Chaikin has been the Rebbe’s emissary in Morocco, Scandinavia, Belgium and Ukraine since 1955. He was interviewed three times in JEM’s My Encounter Studio, once in 2010 and twice in 2015.
Women Front, Center of Budapest’s Budding Jewish Community
When Kata Nádas, 31, a Hungarian Jew, first began attending Chabad programs at sixteen, her parents were concerned. Their associations with Judaism were all dark: more than a half a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the assistance of local Hungarians, and anti-Semitism was on the rise in the country.
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