Friendship Circle Takes Families With Special Needs on First-Time Visit to Israel
The looks on their faces—on the kids’ faces—reflected in their parents’ eyes, that’s what it’s all about. That’s what it’s always about.
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Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rochel Leah Andrusier, 36, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden and very untimely passing of Rochel Leah Andrusier OBM, daughter of Laibel and Fraida Andrusier in Crown Heights. She was 36 years old.
Baby Girl!
Sholly and Dena (nee Krafchik) Brown (London, England)
Baby Boy!
Levi and Shainy (nee Perl) Benjaminson (Los Angeles, CA)
Weekly Living Torah Video: Moshiach – Pipe Dream or Reality?
The Rebbe constantly insisted on yearning for and demanding Moshiach’s coming, refusing to make peace with an imperfect world. As we begin the mourning period for the holy temple in “The Nine Days” JEM presents a short video collage on this theme.
Shabbos at the Besht: The Nine Days and Tisha B’av in Halacha
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Berel Levin will lead a discussion on the topic – The nine days and Tisha B’av in Halacha.
Rabbi Sender and Sarah Gordon with the Ambassador.
Israeli Ambassador to Canada Thanks Shliach
Israel’s Ambassador to Canada, His Excellency Rafael Barak, thanked Chabad Shliach to Ottawa, Rabbi Sender Gordon and the coordinators and volunteers of Israel Connect for their contribution to Israel. In a touching letter, the ambassador explains how a nation is built of many individual contributions, and how the Israel Connect program is providing the building blocks to build a better country.
Bakery Bandit Takes Bites out of Danishes
A sweet-toothed thief helped himself to bites out of a few danishes in Albany Bakery and ran out of the store; when he was confronted by Shomrim, he helped himself to a bite of one of the volunteers too.
Source: Jonathan Pollard to be Released
The U.S. Department of Justice is seriously considering the release of Jonathan Pollard later on this year, a source with knowledge of the matter revealed to The Algemeiner on Friday.
Over 400 Chabad Centers to Screen New JLI Documentary on Tisha B’Av
This Tisha B’Av, over 400 Chabad Houses worldwide will be screening JLI’s new documentary, With My Whole Broken Heart, produced by The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI); written and directed by the noted Michael Kigel, producer of the popular Messages TV series, and produced by Yisroel Silman.
Picture of the Day: Work Begins on Oholei Torah Gym
Young students at Oholei Torah Day Camp watch as trucks pour cement for the foundation of the new Oholei Torah Gym. Complete gym renovations are graciously sponsored by Mr. and Mrs. Yoseph Yitzchok and Batsheva Popack.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during a Farbrengen in the early 1970s.
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Berel and Chanie (nee Procel) Majesky (Crown Heights)
Letter & Spirit: Jewish Approach to Tragedy
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in a timely message for the nine days, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he reflects on the recent tragedy of the holocaust and those earlier ones – our horrific slavery in Egypt, as witnessed by Moshe Rebbeinu, and the destruction of the Second Bais Hamikdash, as witnessed by Yirmiyahu and others – and how to view the suffering of the righteous and the prospering of the wicked. 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.
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Movement to Halt Expansion of Bungalows in Upstate NY Underway
In response to the increasing number of Orthodox Jews frequenting bungalows in Fallsburg, NY, during the summer months, the town has passed new zoning regulations to make it less inviting for families, reports The Jewish Week.
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