An encounter from over three years ago closed a circle on Shabbos afternoon for Rabbi Yisroel Bernath, a campus Shliach at the NDG & Loyola Campus in Montreal, Canada. Following Davening a women shared a story about a chance encounter she had with the Shliach which prevented her from intermarriage.
After Yinon Cohen lost his legs in an accident involving a rocket-propelled grenade, it wasn’t clear he’d ever be able to walk again, much less ski down a peak in the Rocky Mountains.
Between Two Jews: A new interview series, riffing of a similar world famous series, Moshe Karvitsky interviews one of the Twins from France.
“One minute in Auschwitz was like an entire day. A day was like a year. A month, an eternity,” wrote Roman Kent, a Holocaust survivor. Survivors have been gathering at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz, to mark the 70th anniversary of its liberation. This aerial footage, published by the BBC, shows what it looks like today.
Well over 1,000 men turned out in support of Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah for their annual auction fundraiser. The event featured a special performance by Mordechai Ben David, the Shira Choir and the Freilach band.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the very untimely passing of Mrs. Nechama Kaushansky OBM of Toronto, Canada. The nifteres‘ son and daughter passed away in the past year.
Yehuda Leib and Rendy (nee Alenick) Herz (Crown Heights)
Ellen Brody, the 49-year-old mother of three whose SUV was at the center of a fatal Metro-North train crash on Wednesday—in what is being called the worst accident in the train line’s history—is being remembered by those who knew her as a loving mother and friend, and an active and selfless community member. Five other people lost their lives in the accident.
Two cars collided in a busy Eastern Parkway intersection just before Shabbos. The crash injured five.
Louise Hager, who developed a close relationship with the Rebbe’s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, recalls speaking about her for the first time in public, and relates some important lessons the Rebbetzin taught her.
An already heated debate over possible new development rules in Crown Heights turned into a racially charged shouting match Wednesday night.
Moshe Duban (Crown Heights) and Shana Rosenblum (Montreal, Canada)
Tuesday, Feb. 3 wasn’t just any day for the Chabad.org Facebook page. For one, it was the start of 15 Shevat that evening—the New Year of the Trees. If that wasn’t enough to celebrate, that same day also made a bit of Chabad history: It counted 100,000 followers who had clicked the “Like” button.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe conversing with someone during a Farbrengen in the mid 1970s.
Pesach and Chana Burston (Monroe, NY)
Levi and Esther Leah (nee Klyne) Heller (Crown Heights)
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