Shabbos at the Besht: Chai Elul
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the JLI, will lead a discussion on the topic of Chai Elul.
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Letter: Our Miraculous Wedding
The following letter was sent to CrownHeights.info by Refael and Sarah (nee Procaccia) Cohen, whose wedding – set to take place Thursday night, September 4th – had to be rescheduled for Friday morning after the groom was denied entry into the United States and sent back to Brazil by Customs and Border Protection. As promised, the full story of their ordeal and ultimate triumph are presented to our readers.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at a children’s rally, circa 1969.
Hawaiian Island Gets First Ever Sefer Torah
It’s not every day that a new Torah arrives on Kauai. In fact, it is something that has never happened before, at least not until recently, said Gani Kauai Rabbi Michoel Goldman.
TGI
Gratitude Is Good for the Soul; and the Body Too
“Do not all men desire happiness?” This rhetorical question was posed by Socrates to his students. The response was unanimous: “There is no one who does not!”
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov - Jax, FL
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Gittel Hershkowitz (Crown Heights)
Twin Boys!
Sholom Ber and Elie (nee Hoffman) Estrin (Raleigh, NC)
The Sholom Zochor will be at 400 Forest Hills Rd. Sandy Springs, GA.
Typical scene on the streets of Donetsk, Ukraine.
Hundreds of Jewish Families Stuck in Ukraine War-Zone for High Holidays
Hundreds of Jewish families are staying in the flashpoint eastern Ukraine cities of Donetsk and Mariupol and will spend Rosh Hashanah there. The families are hoping for an extended calm after the signing of a cease-fire agreement reached last week between Ukrainian troops and pro-Russian militias, said the chief rabbi of Donetsk, Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski.
JTA
Video: Senator Ted Cruz Booed for Pro-Israel Remarks
Last night, at a gathering with Arab Christians, U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was booed for saying “Christians have no greater ally than Israel,” and “Those who hate Israel hate America. Those who hate Jews hate Christians.”
Letter & Spirit: The Danger of Concessions
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the dangers of giving liberated land back to Israel’s enemies. 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.
Rabbi Michoel and Sarah Katsenelenbogen with their children. Young Moshe is seated between his parents.
Remembering Reb Moshe Katsenelenbogen, 83, OBM
Moshe Katsenelenbogen, or Reb Maishke, as he was later known, was born on the 11th of Nissan in 1931 in Gzhatsk, in the former Soviet Union, to Rabbi Michoel and Sarah Katsenelenbogen, the youngest of five children.
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Devorah Leah (nee Hertz) Kotlarsky (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 1568 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
New Engagement!
Mendel (ben R’ Dovid Shraga) Polter (Oak Park, MI) and Kayla Brikman (Crown Heights)
L’chaim tonight, Thursday, at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Aves.]
Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik
Chabad Rabbi Named One of CSU’s 6 Best Teachers
Donning a long beard and a kippa on the crown of his head, Colorado State University’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelik is not the type of philosophy teacher one would expect to walk into a classroom, joking with students in a thick Australian accent.
The Collegian
BC Women Join Together for ‘Mega Challah Bake’
120 women from across the greater Vancouver area gathered on Wednesday evening, September 10th, for a ‘Community Mega Challah Bake’ at the Lubavitch Centre.
Hallandale Holds Siyum on ‘Hemshech Ayin Beis’
After over three years of daily weekday study of the famous Hemshech 5672 (Ayin Beis) from the Rebbe Rashab, his longest series of discourses (144 Maamorim), a Siyum of the second part of Ayin Beis was held Friday, 10 Elul, in Congregation Levi Yitzchok-Lubavitch in Hallandale Beach, Florida, the Headquarters of Chabad of South Broward.
by Yehudah Obermeyer
New Engagement!
Yisroel Jacobs (Amersfoort, Netherlands) and Nechama Berger (London, UK)
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