School may not be in session, but summertime is busy at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) in Longmeadow, MA. LYA organizes a Sizzlin’ Summer Barbecue for the community that grows bigger and better each summer. At the barbecue, people of all ages and from different segments of the community attend, and LYA staff take advantage of the opportunity to shmooze with them.
Chabad.org is once again proud to partner with the NCFJE, which has been broadcasting live siyumim on the radio for over thirty years, to bring you live broadcasts of daily siyumim for the nine days.
Yanky Stambler (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Mushky Duchman (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Moshe Wiener, author of the Sefer Hadras Ponim Zokon on the Halachic prohibition of cutting one’s beard, send us the following letter from the Rebbe to the directors of a summer camp who asked whether it was okay to hire a staff-member who cut his beard.
A shocking and shameful incident has shaken up the Chabad community in Be’er Sheva, Israel: A sign bearing the name of a street named after the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, was vandalized by unknown perpetrators.
The Andrusier family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their daughter and sister, Rochel Leah, OBM, at 619 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]. Men’s hours: Beginning with Shacharis at 7:30am until 12:00pm, and from 3:00pm until 1 hour after Maariv (Bizmano). […]
Statements given by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond at the beginning of their recent meeting demonstrate the sharp divide between the two countries on the nuclear deal with Iran.
Although the ‘Nine Days’ are days of mourning for the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh, The Rebbe instructed that we find ways to increase in happiness in acceptable ways. Camp Gan Israel in Parksville New York brought the Twin from France to entertain the campers
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.
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.
Sholly and Dena (nee Krafchik) Brown (London, England)
Levi and Shainy (nee Perl) Benjaminson (Los Angeles, CA)
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.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Berel Levin will lead a discussion on the topic – The nine days and Tisha B’av in Halacha.
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.
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.
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