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Moshe Angyalfi (Leeds, England) and Toby Wilansky (Montreal, Canada)
Berel Schildkraut (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Mussie Alpern (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
“Our Talmudic scholar in Israel”—that’s how Bernie and Joan Levine of Kansas City referred to their son, according to friend and neighbor Rabbi Yitzchak “Itche” Itkin, co-director of Chabad on the Plaza in Missouri.
Pictures from the wedding of Leibel Hackner (Crown Heights) and Sharon Sinclair (Sydney, Australia), which took place last Thursday night at the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
An Israeli tourist visiting Pittsburgh came across a couple of young Lubavitcher Bochurim doing Mivtzoim last Friday afternoon. Their warmth, sincerity and joy touched the man, who filmed the encounter and posted the videos to his Facebook page under the title “Ashreinu Sheyesh Lanu Am Kazeh” (How lucky we are to have a nation like this).
Renowned Chabad lecturer and writer Rabbi Yossi Jacobson was the keynote speaker at an honorary dinner hosted by the Telshe Yeshiva in Cleveland, Ohio.
Nine American and Israeli victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks have demanded a compensation of $688 million from the Pakistan-based perpetrators of the terror assault, including the chiefs of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
Yochanan Lowen, 36, a former member of the Montreal Chasidic community, is suing the Quebec government for not rigorously enforcing its educational curriculum standards on private Chasidic schools, whom he calls ‘illegal’ and blames for his ‘substandard’ education.
Shaya and Rachel (nee Dank) Feldman (Montreal, Canada)
Isaac Rosenfeld (Los Angeles, CA) and Mima Vanounou (Los Angeles, CA)
Zalmi and Esti Katz (Crown Heights)
Among three principals to receive a prestigious award for outstanding Jewish education was the Lubavitcher principal of the Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy in Beverly Hills, California. Rabbi Yisroel Baruch Sufrin received the Covenant Award at a ceremony in Washington, DC.
Less then 24 hours remain before the Kinus Hashluchim Haolami will commence, bringing Shluchim from around the world together for the weekend long conference.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How carefully must we avoid gossip?
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he clarifies what is – and is not – the role of a Shliach. 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.
Children attending the first ever Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim, in the fall of 1994, pose with their counselors for a group portrait in front of 770. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
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