The Canadian town of Windsor, located in southern Ontario across the river from Detroit, marked the first baby born in the year 2015 – a healthy baby boy born to local Chabad Shluchim Rabbi Sholom and Rivka Galperin.
Following the passing yesterday of former governor of New York Mario Cuomo, father of current governor Andrew Cuomo, we present a video of the senior governor’s encounter with the Rebbe, which took place in October of 1990.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Chaim Steinhauser, OBM, of Crown Heights. He was 69 years old.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during davening in the early 1970s.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rosh Kollel of 770 Montgomery, will lead a discussion on the topic – Does a non-Jew receive a reward for doing Mitzvos?
Shmulie and Esty (nee Kaminker) Slavin (Crown Heights)
Chana Sudak (Edgware, England) and Eliezer Tunk (Edgware, England)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present an intriguing letter from the Rebbe in which he makes a connection between tefillin, oil and gas exploration in the Land of Israel and a teaching of the Baal Shem Tov. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Following the passing two weeks ago of Rebbetzin Charna Kolodny, OBM, wife of Reb Yitzchok Kolodny, OBM – who said to be the first American student to enroll in Tomchei Temimim and grow a beard, we present a series of photos from the first years of Lubavitch in Crown Heights, in the early 1940s, which were shared with us by their descendents.
Produced on behalf of the Jewish outreach organization Oorah, this music video by Shmuel and Bentzion Marcus of 8th Day explores the well-known adage of a sage of the Mishnah – Nochum Ish Gam Zu – that everything that happens is for the best.
While many schoolchildren have these two weeks off for winter vacation, the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held its own annual Winter Camp children with special needs.
Moshe Laniado (Myrtle Beach, SC) and Sara Baila Shapiro (San Diego, CA)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday, at 724 Eastern Parkway
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Recently the world’s Jewish news outlets reported on the “adoption” of an Orthodox boy by Argentina’s president, ostensibly to prevent him from becoming a werewolf. Interestingly, Rabbi Mendel Kaplan dedicated two classes to this topic in his weekly class that airs on Jewish.tv.
In honor of the fast of Asara B’Teves, commemorating the day Jerusalem was placed under siege before the ultimate destruction of the temple, we present a video of the Rebbe getting an Aliya and reading the Haftorah on this day in 5748 (1988).
Sholom Domnitz (Manchester, England) and Shaina Krafchik (Leeds, England)
Mrs. Leah Arkush has been a Shlucha in Birmingham, England, since 1974. She was interviewed in JEM’s My Encounter studio in Brooklyn, New York, in April of 2014.
One of the participants of an annual trip of the Chabad Brazilian Organization ‘Espaco K’ (‘space’ in Portuguese) put on Tefillin in front of the Taj Mahal in the City of Agra, India. The place is considered as one of the wonders of the world, and attracts millions of tourist each year.
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