A week before Shavuos, brothers Yair, Nechemia and Rachamim Ladayev, all three active members of the Chabad community in France, arrived in Zhitomir in western Ukraine to facilitate the distribution of Tefilin and Mezuzos.
Two Jewish teenagers were moderately wounded in a stabbing attack on the first night of Shavuos (Motzei Shabbos) on their way to the Kotel. The attack occurred in the area of Sha’ar Shechem in the old city of Jerusalem.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe getting an Aliyah in 1987.
Yitzy and Miriam (nee Eber) Seabag (Passaic, NJ)
Yossi and Chanie (nee Bruchstat) Cousin (Crown Heights)
Levi and Chaya (nee Tifenbrun) Levitin (Crown Heights)
Aron Meir and Rosy Nechama (nee Michaan) Shloush (S. Paulo, Brazil)
This year we celebrate the 60-year anniversary of the first Tahalucha, which took place on Shvuos 5715/1955.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 25, for Shavuos. Parking meter regulations are also suspended due to Memorial Day.
On the first night of Shavuos at the Besht, three renowned lecturers will lead discussions in Torah: 12:15am – Rabbi Chaim Schochet – How do we integrate into our lives the Rebbe’s bracha of kabolas hatorah bsimcha ub’pnimiyus? 1:15am – Rabbi Sholom Dovid Geisinsky – The significance of Shavous in a Shnas Hashmita. 2:15am – Rabbi Zalman Goldberg – Matan Torah for Egyptians.
On Sunday, the first day of Shavuos, there will be various minyonim for Krias Hatorah – Aseres Hadibros around Crown Heights, which were arranged for women and children who could not make it to Shul during Shachris.
Mendy and Sarah (nee Glick) Korf (Crown Heights)
The Supreme Court of the State of Michigan on Wednesday handed down a ruling in which they dismissed a lawsuit brought by the head Shliach of the state, Rabbi Berel Shemtov, against the Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, led by Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg.
Israel’s chief rabbinate updated the design of its official logo in which the Ten Commandments will now be depicted in a square rather than the familiar rounded shape. The change comes in time for Shavuot, the holiday that celebrates the revelation at Sinai with the Ten Commandments and the Torah. This year, Shavuot falls on Sunday and Monday (May 24th 25th).
25 after the first Kinus of all the Chabad Shluchim of Europe, which took place in the crumbling Soviet Union, the Shluchim of the European continent will once again gather for an historic Kinus.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of Shavuos, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the concept of Na’aseh V’nishma with yet another perspective: the doing/Na’aseh brings to greater understanding/Nishma. 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.
A 46-year-old man was the victim of a ‘strong-arm robbery’ Wednesday night. Three suspects stole $1,280 in cash, a laptop and the victim’s SUV on Bedford Avenue.
