Music Video: Don’t Let It Get You Down
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.
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A Single Father, A Tireless Fellow Shliach, An Unimaginable Struggle
Photos: Aliya Bakes Challah for ‘The Shabbos Project’
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
Weekly Living Torah Video: Practically Speaking
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.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing Kos Shel Bracha after Yom Tov, 1969.
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Shloimie and Tzirel Baitch (Crown Heights)
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Mendel and Gutey (nee Brashevitzky) Engel (Crown Heights)
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Sholem and Miriam (nee Minsky) Kapelushnik (Crown Heights)
Please Say Tehillim for..
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, New Jersey
New Jersey Locales Get First Jewish Center
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.
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Moshe and Chanie (nee Metal) Levin (Los Angeles, CA)
Letter & Spirit: Do the Non-Jews Really Hate Us?
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.
Has Ebola Arrived in NYC?
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.
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Saadia and Nechama (nee Kupfer) Pewzner (Bronx, NY)
Rabbi Schochet Issues Clarification on Telushkin Ban
Rabbi Gershon Elisha Schochet, Av Beis Din of Toronto, released today a second letter in response to a general misunderstanding of his first letter, in which he espoused a Halachic prohibition on promoting the book of Rabbi Joseph Telushkin.
Japanese Photographer Documents Chasidic Life in Crown Heights
The path to New York almost always comes with one story or another. In the case of Chie Nishio, it turns out to be a photographic one.
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Ari Raskin (Melbourne, Australia) and Rivky Krasnianski (Montreal, Canada)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
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