In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in regards to the success of Shidduchim. 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.
On Motzei Shabbos, the 15th of Cheshvan (November 8), there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12 featuring an entertaining storyteller, a raffle and an amazing program. Buses will leave 770 at 6:30pm and return at 8:30pm. Transportation will cost $3.
Congregation Beth Israel of Malden, Massachusetts, an Orthodox Union synagogue led by Rabbi Yitzchak Zev Rabinowitz, recently dedicated a beautiful new Mikvah, which was built to the strict and costly standards of the Rebbe Rashab – namely, a Bor Al Gabei Bor.
For its second year in a row, the Friendship Circle of South Bay, California under the auspices of Chabad of Redondo Beach, raised over $1 Million with over 11,000 attending its annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk. The walk was organized in partnership with the Sketchers Foundation and Nickelodeon.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftaly Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic – A survey of the Rebbe’s commentary on the famous Vayera story with the Rebbe Rashab.
Sholomke and Chani (nee Posner) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Yoel and Elisheva (nee Kaplan) Gansburg (Tzfat, Israel)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe during a Yud Aleph Nissan Farbrengen, circa 1975. Next to the Rebbe is a pile of many birthday gifts he received.
Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. There was some anticipation as they waited to hear who among their teachers would be awarded the Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Award.
After a packed house the past three years, Breslover musician Yosef Karduner is returning to Crown Heights for a fourth performance. Also performing is Yishai Lapidot and Yellow Red Sky.
Mendel and Dvora (nee Maister) Lakein (Crown Heights)
Exclusive: Rabbi Ariel Mashash, leader of one of Paris’s large Jewish communities and son of the late Chief Rabbi of Paris Rabbi David Mashash OBM, visited Lubavitch World Headquarters, the Rebbes library and the Ohel.
This was a car break-in the likes of which Shomrim never experienced before. A man was apprehended after smashing the window of a minivan, only police later discovered that he had the owner’s permission to do so.
Zalmy Refson (Leeds, UK) and Zelly Ceitlin (Montreal, Canada)
Two years ago, four people were injured in a firebombing of a Kosher supermarket located in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Paris. Recently the arsonist, a 27-year-old ambulance driver, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.
