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Israeli Soldiers in Indiana Get a Taste of Home
Generally, the visitors who grace the Shabbat table of Rabbi Yehoshua and Zlata Chincholker tend to be college students at Indiana University Bloomington, where the couple directs the campus Chabad House-Jewish Student Center. Last Shabbat, however, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries welcomed a different group of students–Israelis in town for disaster training.
Gan Yisroel-Parksville Poses for Camp Portrait
On Thursday afternoon, immediately preceding the gala banquet in honor of the 60th year since its founding, the entire Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY – campers, staff, and directors – gathered for the annual camp picture. Joining camp for the picture was co-founder and first head counselor of Gan Yisroel, Rabbi Moshe Lazar of Milan, Italy.
Videos: The Rebbe and 17 Tammuz
In honor of the 17th of Tammuz, JEM has assembled a collection of clips featuring the Rebbe observing the fast and discussing the meaning of the day.
CGI-Parksville Marks 60th Year with Grand Banquet
On the 16th of Tammuz, 5716 (1956), the Rebbe visited the grounds of the fledgling Camp Gan Yisroel, which had been founded that year in upstate New York. Touring the installations, the Rebbe showed great interest in every aspect of the camp.
Weekly Living Torah Video: A Rebellious High Schooler and the Rebbe
In 1976, a young high schooler in Crown Heights felt the need to push back against the expectations and strictures of life as a Lubavitcher girl. The Rebbe’s sensitivity and approach to her predicament remain as topical and incisive now as ever – truly a guide to the perplexed. Today, Mrs. Mariashi Groner is the Co-director of Lubavitch of North Carolina and the Director of Charlotte Jewish Day School.
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Eli and Brachie (nee Clapman) Friedman (Crown Heights)
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Yisroel Noach and Slava (nee Edelman) Blank (Crown Heights)
NYC Marks First Month on Record Without Fire Fatality
New York City fire officials say June was the first month in 150 years that there wasn’t a fire-related death in the city.
NYPD Begins Crackdown on Electric Scooters
The NYPD has begun a crackdown on electric bikes and the restaurants that use them, saying the use of such bikes are de facto illegal since they cannot be registered with the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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Binyamin and Sara (nee Putter) Boubili (Crown Heights)
Shabbos at the Besht: Summer – Opportunity or Challenge?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Kasriel Kastel will lead a discussion on the topic – Summer: Opportunity or Challenge?
‘Britain’s Schindler’ Dies at 106
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106.
Soul Strings Beckon, A Conductor Follows
When Israel Edelson, a rising conductor under the tutelage of legendary maestro Leonard Bernstein, arrived in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights, some 30 years ago, he was searching for a something. He found it in Chasidic melodies, known as niggunim, that were sung around the Shabbat table at the home of Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying L’chaim with the elder Chassidim sitting behind him at a Farbrengen in the early 1970s.
Letter & Spirit: Establishing a Kollel in Ireland
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe to the chief rabbi of Ireland in 1981, in which he addresses the specific communal matter of establishing a kollel. 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 Economically Battered Greece, Rabbinic Students Offer Comfort to Jewish Community
As Greece faces closed banks, looming bankruptcy and possible expulsion from the Eurozone, Chabad has dispatched a pair of “Roving Rabbis” to bring hope, comfort and support to Jewish communities large and small.
