Baby Boy!
Zalmi and Esti Katz (Crown Heights)

Lubavitcher Principal Receives Prestigious Award
Among three principals to receive a prestigious award for outstanding Jewish education was the Lubavitcher principal of the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California. Rabbi Yisroel Baruch Sufrin received the Covenant Award at a ceremony in Washington, DC.

Last Minute Preparations Before Kinus Hashluchim
Less then 24 hours remain before the Kinus Hashluchim Haolami will commence, bringing Shluchim from around the world together for the weekend long conference.

Video: How Carefully Must We Avoid Gossip?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How carefully must we avoid gossip?

Letter & Spirit: The Role of a Shliach
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he clarifies what is – and is not – the role of a Shliach. 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.

From Days Gone By: First Children’s Kinus, 1994
Children attending the first ever Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim, in the fall of 1994, pose with their counselors for a group portrait in front of 770. Can you identify anyone in the photo?

Muslims Join Kristallnacht Memorial in Berlin
In a departure from convention, a group of Muslims youth participated at a memorial in Berlin marking the 76th year of Kristallnacht. Also known as the “Night of Broken Glass” for the glass storefronts of Jewish businesses and synagogues that were shattered and smashed on November 9 and 10th in 1938, Kristallnacht foretold the coming Holocaust.
New Engagement!
Levi Dubov (Montreal/Jerusalem) and Shaina Botnick (Ottawa, Canada)
New Enagement!
Mendel Mishulovin (Detroit, MI) and Yocheved Hecht (San Francisco, CA)
Baby Girl!
Bentzi and Rochie Sudak (London, England)

Video: ‘Na Nach Bus’ Comes to 770
An unusual-looking school bus decked in ‘Na Nach’ stickers and paint and blasting joyous music made a surprise visit to 770 Eastern Parkway last night, and caught the attention of many curious bystanders.
Baby Boy!
Chanochie and Mushkie (nee Bruk) Deitsch (Crown Heights)

Shabbaton Attendee Arrested for Scaling Bridge
Yonathan Souid, 23, a Jewish college student from France who arrived in New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton in Crown Heights last weekend, was arrested by the NYPD for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge for a photo shoot.

Chasidic Jew Attacked in Brooklyn Subway Station
The attack of a Chasidic man in a Brooklyn subway station is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD.

New Shluchim to Ukraine
24 years ago, in the summer of 1990, 8-month-old Mendel joined his parents, Rabbi Moishe and Miriam Moskovitz, as one of the first families of Shluchim to the Soviet Union as communism began to fall. They moved to Kharkov, which was then part of the USSR, as Shluchim of the Rebbe to a Jewish community that had just gotten back its Shul from the government.

Photos: Kinus Welcome Bags Ready
With barely 30 hours left until the start of the International Kinus Hashluchim, thousands of ‘welcome bags’ have been prepared by Merkos and are ready to be distributed to the Shluchim upon registration.

4 Killed in Brutal Terrorist Attack in Har Nof Shul
Two Palestinian terrorists stormed into the Kehilat Yaakov Shul in Har Nof, Jerusalem armed with meat cleavers and guns and went on a bloody rampage – killed four and injuring many more. Three of the victims were U.S. citizens and a fourth was British.