After the passing of retired NYPD Lieutenant Abraham Kushner two years ago, his granddaughter who is active with Chabad at UNC Chapel Hill, brought a recently discovered photo of the Rebbe and Lt. Kushner to the Shluchim.
Police have arrested two of the three men suspected of viciously beating and robbing a young woman in Crown Heights earlier this month.
Simcha and Dvora (nee Branover) Begun (Crown Heights)
Oholei Torah student Chaim Mayzlesh sings this moving dedication to the much beloved bus driver of his youth, Moshe Abelsky, OBM, whose third Yahrtzeit is tomorrow.
At Crown Heights’ Aliya Center, young men were seen today preparing Challah in anticipation of ‘The Shabbos Project,’ a worldwide campaign for all Jews to keep one Shabbos, an initiative of the chief rabbinate of South Africa.
Rabbi Mordechai Gutnick relates that his father, known as a powerful orator, once confided in the Rebbe that he wonders how much he is actually accomplishing with his speeches. The Rebbe’s advice to his father is something Rabbi Gutnick still uses today.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha after Yom Tov, 1969.
Shloimie and Tzirel Baitch (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Gutey (nee Brashevitzky) Engel (Crown Heights)
Sholem and Miriam (nee Minsky) Kapelushnik (Crown Heights)
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Chaim Arye halevi ben Sara Rivka, who is suffering from Yene Machla and needs a speedy and complete recovery.
Robbinsville and Hamilton are very different townships. Situated near Trenton, one is residential, the other more of a commercial area. But both had no Jewish infrastructure. This past July Rabbi Yaakov and Chana Chaiton were appointed new Chabad representatives to the area.
Moshe and Chanie (nee Metal) Levin (Los Angeles, CA)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to a non-Jew who questioned why it is that Jews feel so strongly that the Gentiles are not well disposed toward them and even seem suspicious and fearful of non-Jews. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Today, the FDNY EMS HAZ and TAC Units transferred to Bellevue Hospital a patient who presented a fever and gastrointestinal symptoms. The patient is a health care worker who returned to the U.S. within the past 21 days from one of the three West African countries currently facing the outbreak of this virus.
Saadia and Nechama (nee Kupfer) Pewzner (Bronx, NY)
