Hundreds of Jews of all colors and stripes gathered Sunday evening in the holy city of Tzfas to mark Gimmel Tammuz with a show of unity. The event was organized by the Rebbe’s Shliach to Tzfas, Rabbi Chaim Kaplan.
Tonight, marks twenty years since the passing of our dear Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory. For the benefit of our readers we have put together Minhogei Yom Hilulah, Davening times in the Rebbes House, Ohel bus schedule, and the central Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen times in the Extended Article.
In Honor of Gimmel Tammuz Rabbi Yoel Kahn presents a special edition of his weekly Chassidus webcast, The Chassidic Perspective, titled “Hiskashrus Today – Part 2“.
In anticipation of Gimmel Tammuz, marking 20 years since the Rebbe’s passing, the Jewish community of Moscow, Russia gathered at the Marina Roscha Synagogue for a ‘Day of the Rebbe.’
While an airplane waited on the tarmac at JFK airport to take him back to the Holy Land, Israeli Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau paid a visit to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel tonight, a visit he was expecting to make tomorrow, on the 20th Anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Etta Devora Morozow OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights and the wife of the Mashpiah Rabbi Sholom Morozow OBM. She was 78.
The Creative Soul, a Crown Heights art gallery, is hosting a unique show titled ‘This Is My Rebbe,’ marking the 20th anniversary of the Rebbe’s passing on Gimmel Tammuz.
Arik Denebeim (Palm Springs, CA) and Chaya (bas R’ Shloime) Friedman (Crown Heights)
At least 21 people were shot across New York City over the weekend, one of the bloodiest for the city in recent years. The shootings took place in all of the city’s five boroughs: Nine people were shot in Brooklyn, five in Manhattan, five in the Bronx, one in Queens and one on Staten Island, police said.
A livery taxi cab went up in flames on Empire Boulevard near Albany Avenue this afternoon, setting a moving truck partially-filled with a Crown Heights resident’s possessions ablaze as well.
140 Chabad educators from around the world posed for a group photo at the annual Kinus Hamechanchim, which is taking place today in Danbury, Connecticut. The conference, which is being held today and tomorrow, is organized by the Merkos Chinuch Office under the leadership of Rabbi Nochum Kaplan.
Senior members of Agudas Harabonim met yesterday with newly-appointed chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Israel Rabbi David Lau in the New York office of Rabbi Moshe Feinstein, OBM. Among those present were Crown Heights Rabbis Moshe Bogomilsky and Noach Fox, both members of the Agudah.
At around 12:30 EST today, we received the devastating news that the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teens – Eyal Yifrach, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Frankel, 16 – were found by soldiers of the IDF in Chalchul, a Palestinian town about 1km north of Chevron. All three were killed by their captors, r”l.
On Thursday, 28 Sivan, Rabbi Levi Feldman and his team of dedicated staff, with the onset of staff training, took the first step of embarking on a summer-long mission to give the talmidim of Yeshivas Kayitz Tannersville the most safe, fantastic, and exuberant summer experience.
A crowd of over 500 people from across the Greater Boston area turned out for an Evening of Inspiration marking the 20th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz. Over 20 Shluchim gathered with their communities at the Taj Boston overlooking the Public Garden.
On Sunday, hundreds of Crown Heights residents spent their day off work on Governor’s Island, a recently-opened recreation area on the East River. One of our readers captured this photo of a Chabad family learning Chitas together on one of the island’s benches.
Shmuly and Itta (nee Denburg) Wolvovsky (Crown Heights)
