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Letter & Spirit: Making Humans More Human, Jews More Jewish
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he emphasizes the obligation and duty of all of us, not only Rabbis, to spread the name of G-d and bring all people to worship him, in the spirit of Avraham Avinu’s life. 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.
Video: ‘Nazi School’ Under Investigation in Germany
A school district in Germany has caused quite the media stir this week after images of students saluting with Hitler-like mustaches surfaced in an influential publication. RT News interviewed Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel, Chabad Shliach to Berlin, for his perspective on the incident.
Shomrim Gives Safety Tips for Halloween Eve
The American holiday of Halloween will take place tonight, Friday. While in most areas the holiday is celebrated by children dressing up in costumes and receiving candy, in Crown Heights many hoodlums have customarily celebrated the occasion by throwing eggs at and attacking Jewish residents on the streets of the neighborhood. In light of this situation, Shomrim has released a detailed PSA on what steps should be taken to remain safe throughout the ‘holiday.’
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe touching the Mezuzah as he goes from his office to Daven Maariv.
Shabbos at the Besht: A Hard Day’s Work
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Baruch Jacobson will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘A hard day’s work, according to Chassidus.’
Picture of the Day: Offensive Guard’s Yomtov Mitzvah
On a trip to Manhattan during Chol Hamoed Sukkos, Moshe Koniarski took his Lulav set so he could do Mivtzoim as well. He did not anticipate meeting Geoff Schwartz, a Jewish football player on the New York Giants, who gladly performed the Mitzvah, and told Moshe he had fasted on Yom Kippur as well.
New Engagement!
Shmuly Shechter (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Chana Bracha Eichenstein (Crown Heights)
Video of Bochurim Dancing in Airport Goes Viral in Italy
An Italian journalist who arrived in Ben Gurion Airport captured the moment students of Yeshivas Toras Emes of Jerusalem welcomed their fellow students who were returning from spending Tishrei in New York with joyous singing and dancing in the midst of the busy terminal.
Baby Girl!
Shlomo and Devorah (nee Brenner) Elkan (Oberlin, OH)
Subway Fares to Go Up Again This Winter
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority plans to raise subway and bus fares by 4 percent in March, MTA Chairman and CEO Tom Prendergast said yesterday, Wednesday.
Dispute Leads to Seforim Piling Up in 770
For a few days now, a sorry sight has welcomed all who enter the main Shul of 770: hundreds of Seforim piled high on tables and benches, while the shelves where they belong remain bare.
Video: Young Orchestra Plays Chassidic Symphony
Mamesh Music, a Crown Heights-based music school where children learn to play various instruments, performs the classic Niggun ‘Hoshia Es Amecha,’ led by the school’s founder Zalman Negin.
Found: Home of Chabad Yeshiva in Otwock, Poland
A rookie researcher from S. Paulo, Brazil, made it her goal to locate the once glorious building of the Lubavitch Yeshivah school, known as Tomchei Tmimim, in Otwock, Poland.
Campaign to ‘Add Light’ in Murdered Toddler’s Memory
In the wake of the death of 3-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun in a terror attack on Jerusalem’s Light Rail, volunteers of the Chabad Terror Victims Project paid a Shiva call to her family. At the Shiva, an idea was born: a new campaign for world Jewry to ‘Add Light’ in little Chaya’s memory.
New Engagement!
Levi Raichik (Los Angeles, CA) and Chanee Greenberg (Solon, OH)
Drunk Drivers Who Collided on Eastern Parkway Charged in Passenger’s Death
The first time two Brooklyn men ever met was when their cars crashed into each other over two months ago. Yesterday, Wednesday, they were both standing at the same defense table in a rare case in which two drivers are charged together for the death of a single passenger.
