With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Mendel Cotlar of Houston, TX. He passed away this morning after many years of living with Glycogen Storage Disease. He was 13 years old, having just celebrated his Bar Mitzvah last month.
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Carrying forward the legacy of Reb Shmuel Moshe Hakohen Benjamin A”H
Being that today is the 13th of Tishrei, the Rebbe Maharash’s yahrtzeit, JEM compiled a collection of videos in which the Rebbe describes what we can learn from his life and legacy.
In this photo collection from Lubavitch Archives, one of the very first ‘sukkah mobiles’ can be seen on the streets of College Park, Maryland. The photos were taken on Chol Hamoed Sukkos, circa 1970.
In honor of Yud Gimmel Tishrei, the yahrzeit of the Rebbe Maharash we asked Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon, the author of the acclaimed Rebbeim Biography Series if he can share with us some insights into the life of the Rebbe Maharash. He graciously agreed to give us an unedited portion of his upcoming biography on the Rebbe Maharash.
Mesivta Lubavitch of Monsey has now completed its first month of the new zman with, Boruch Hashem, much success. The zal is filled with the sounds of twenty bochurim, joined by the Talmidei Hashluchim, learning, davening, farbrenging and growing in Chassidishkeit.
Studying at the University of Vermont, Rabbi Fishel Jacobs, who had not yet become observant, met R’ Hershel Backman, OBM, during the holiday of Sukkos. He writes about this meeting, which led to a Jewish revival in the town, which has one of the oldest synagogues in the United States.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman received beautiful sets of Arba Minim from a Chabad delegation, including the latter’s longtime acquaintance, Rabbi Levi Edri.
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Mrs. Brana Shaina Deitsch, OBM, wife of R’ Mordecai Deitsch of New Haven, Connecticut. She was 72 years old. Levaya times and Shivah info added.
Moishy and Rivky (nee Lepkivker) Goldman (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada)
At a busy mall in the Israeli city of Netanya, hundreds turned out to celebrate the inauguration of a synagogue in memory of Lt. Hadar Goldin and Oron Shaul, two Israeli soldiers killed in the recent Gaza war.
While much of the focus during the month of Tishrei is on the guests, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim has not forgotten the local Bochurim who are currently in bein hazmanim. A special panel of distinguished speakers gave some 500 attendees a walk through – in English – of the years of Sukkos and Simchas Torah with the Rebbe.
This past Sunday, a Shloshim gathering was held for Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, OBM, wife of Reb Michoel Teitelbaum, founders of the Moisad Chinuch Oholei Torah, in the East Flatbush Kindergarten. Despite the busy time of year, a large crowd of over 150 people attended.
Yoel and Chevy (nee Gurary) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
Records compiled over the summer show an 18.9% upswing in tickets issues to New York City businesses from the same period last year, despite Mayor Bill de Blasio’s campaign promise to back-off and cut the city’s small business owners a break.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Sukkos (up to – but not including – Hoshanah Rabbah), including the laws of building a Sukkah, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Look for Levi Duchman on a bike. Not just any bike, though. The 21-year-old Chabad yeshivah student in Brooklyn, N.Y., is riding around on a modified pedi-cab—an adult-sized, three-wheeled cycle (a tricycle, really) that instead of having a set of seats in the back attaches to various holiday accoutrements.
Algemeiner Editor-in-Chief Dovid Efune sat down with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday, just hours after the PM’s meeting with President Obama at the White House and days after his blistering address to the United Nations.
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