When Robert Rubinstein, a Toronto businessman, had to fulfill the dying wish of a Hungarian Christian woman, he reached out to the Chabad rabbi in Budapest. He was holding the proceeds of the sale of two properties intended for Hungary’s Jews.
Eliyahu Sasson (Princeton, NJ) and Leah Hazdan (Johannesburg, South Africa)
L’chaim today, Tuesday, at 1428 President St.
[between Kingston and Albany Aves.] at 5:00pm
The four Jewish men who were killed on Friday, victims of the terrorist attack on the Hyper Cacher grocery store in Paris before the start of Shabbat, were laid to rest today in Israel.
The Ruderman Family Foundation (RFF) has put $1 million that will go towards the establishment of a partnership with Chabad-Lubavitch in order to create a culture of inclusion for people with disabilities within some 4,200 Jewish communities worldwide.
On Sunday evening, thousands gathered at the world-famous Avery Fischer-Lincoln Center in Manhattan for an evening of Jewish music, the proceeds of which benefited HASC, an organization dedicated to helping children with special needs and their families.
Under heavy security, the Lubavitch community of Paris and many others gathered yesterday, the Yahrtzeit of the Rambam, to celebrate the annual completion of his magnum opus – the Mishneh Torah.
In honor of the 4th Yahrtzeit of Reb Zev Volf Greenglass, OBM, beloved Mashpia for many decades in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Montreal, a Melave Malka and Farbrengen was held this past Motzei Shabbos in the Yeshiva’s main study hall.
Levi Partouche (Montpelier, France) and Sarah Ross (Matawan, NJ)
Mendy Markowitz (Monsey, NY) and Esther Eidelman (Brunoy, France)
A memorial ceremony was held this afternoon outside the French Cultural Centre, the “Alliance Francaise,” in Australia’s Capital city to pay tribute to those killed and injured in the recent terror attacks in Paris.
Simcha Friedman and Yoni Eliav present a medley of niggunim titled “Shluchei HaRebbe Ashreinu,” in honor of the regional Kinus Hashluchim for Eretz Yisroel currently taking place in Tveria. These beloved and cherished niggunim have been sung by Shluchim and Anash the world over for years, in Yiddish, English and Hebrew.
Boruch (Bryan) Conboy (Long Island, NY) and Daniella Bernard (Los Angeles, CA)
L’chaim Motzei Shabbos, January 17, at 1486 Carroll St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] at 8:30pm.
On Motzei Shabbos, the students of Bnos Chomesh and their mothers braved the cold for an evening of appreciation at the school’s Third Annual Mother and Daughter Melave Malka.
At the million-man demonstration in Paris against Islamic terrorism yesterday, one elderly man – a survivor of the Holocaust – stood holding a small sign with a striking message in Yiddish: ‘Mir Zeinen Do’ (we are here).
Yisroel and Henna (nee Shapiro) Shomer (Crown Heights)
In the aftermath of the terror attack and hostage crisis that gripped the world Friday, students of Cheder Lubavitch in Paris were greeted by a squadron of French soldiers guarding their school from any would-be attackers, r”l.
After The Times Herald Record editor Barry Lewis wrote an editorial about how much he missed rugalach after the upstate seasonal kosher bakeries closed, Chabad of Orange County’s Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston decided that hosting a Kosher Rugalach Workshop would be a good idea. So did Lewis.
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