On Friday afternoon, just a few yards away from the Hyper Chacher supermarket in Paris where almost two dozen people were being held hostage by an Islamic terrorist, a Lubavitcher Chosid was standing with a pair of Tefilin, offering worried and tense Jews the opportunity to pray for those trapped inside.
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The four Jewish men who were brutally murdered by an Islamic terrorist while shopping Friday morning in a kosher supermarket in Paris will be laid to rest in Jerusalem this coming week. Yoav Hattab, 21, had just returned home from a visit to Israel, Yohan Cohen, 20, saved a 3-year-old when he fought the terrorist, Philippe Braham, 45, always wanted to make aliyah and Francois-Michel Saada, 64, lived for his family’s happiness; these are the four lives lost in the Friday attack.
If you remember your forbear, the Alter Rebbe, by acting in a way that makes him proud, he will remember you in return.
Alexander (ben Yoske) Levin and Shaindy Gruenberg (Minnesota/Israel)
Explosions and gunshots rang out and smoke rose from Hyper Cacher – the kosher supermarket in Paris where a gunman working in tandem with the two Charlie Hebdo attackers held several hostages. French special forces stormed the building and killed the hostage taker. Images show several hostages – more than the 5 or 6 reported – escaping alive from the supermarket. Sadly, French media have confirmed that 4 of the hostages were killed.
Yossi Grosh (Crown Heights) and Shayna (bas Chaim) Goldberg (Toronto, Canada)
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended immediately for the remainder of Friday, January 9, to facilitate snow removal. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
Nearly 500 participants attended what was billed as a “Historic Evening,” featuring an open discussion with the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Dovid Baruch Lau Shlita, on the topic of “Israel and American Jewry.”
On the eve of the beginning of Oholei Torah’s 60th year to its founding the entire managing board of directors visited the Rebbe’s Ohel Thursday evening. This Shabbos, 19 Teves, marks the beginning of Oholei Torah’s Shnas HaShishim, Educational Institute […]
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during davening in the early 1990s.
Two separate hostage situations are currently unfolding in France. The first is in central Paris in the heart of the Jewish community, where 5 hostages were reportedly taken inside a Kosher supermarket – Hyper Cacher. The lone hostage-taker is said to be wielding two AK-47 rifles, and is believed to be the gunman who killed a female police officer in Paris yesterday.
Yossi Smoller (San Diego, CA) to Ita Adelist (Melbourne, Australia)
Refoel (Rafi) Stein (Flatbush, NY) and Tova Lea Steinmetz (Monsey, NY)
Shui Kastel (Sydney, Australia) and Sheva Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe to an individual who questioned Chabad’s involvement – or lack thereof – in various politically-connected activities in Israel. 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.
New York state’s requirement that children be vaccinated in order to attend state-funded schools does not violate parents’ religious rights under the U.S. Constitution, a federal appeals court said Wednesday.
Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar will not be forgotten. In so many ways, the worldwide Jewish community has made it a point over the last six months to remember the names and the lives of these three Israeli teenagers kidnapped and murdered by terrorists in June.
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