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Ram and Chaya Rivkah (nee Diaz) Rabins (Mexico/Toronto)

Chabad at the Shore Hosts Evening of Tribute
Chabad at the Shore held its second annual “Evening of Tribute and Inspiration” on Sunday, August 24th, at the Katz JCC in Margate, NJ.

Weekly Living Torah Video: Ceasefire – Good or Bad?
With all recent events happening in Eretz Yisroel, JEM’s Living Torah team decided to put aside their regular programming and release a series of programs presenting some of the Rebbe’s views on key issues confronting the residents and leaders in Eretz Yisroel today, as well as his encouragement to the Jews living there.

Sweden’s Jewish Leadership: We Will Stand Strong
Among the elderly at an old-age home in Gothenburg are survivors of Nazism, concentration camp inmates who were transported to Sweden on the White Buses in the spring of 1945 by the Swedish Red Cross. They were from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other German occupied countries, where they remember their childhoods in once lively Jewish communities that had been decimated.
Twins! Boy and Girl!
Shmuli and Aidy (nee Katzman) Bendet (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 680 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]

‘Shalom Aleichem’ in Memory of Slain 4-Year-Old
This Shabbos, our hearts and thoughts will turn to remembering Daniel Tregerman, OBM. This innocent four-year-old boy was killed by a mortar shell fired by Hamas at Nahal Oz, near the Gaza strip. At his funeral, his grandfather tearfully spoke of how much his little grandson loved “Shalom Aleichem” and then, in a voice cracked with pain, the grandfather slowly sang the lovely melody.
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Naftoli and Chani (nee Wolosow) Minkowitz (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 444 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]

Young Professionals Affix Mezuzahs in Support of Israel
Nic and Cat Trammell of Los Angeles just installed their very first mezuzah, as have hundreds of other young couples and singles due to an initiative of the Young Jewish Professionals of Los Angeles—a Chabad center for young adults—and has spread to more than a dozen other Chabad centers catering to young Jewish professionals from Miami to Montreal.

Shabbos at the Besht: The King Is in the Field
This Shabbos at the Besht, noted author and educator Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon will lead a discussion on the topic – Chodesh Elul: The King Is in the Field.

Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in the 1950’s leaving his office in 770 to officiate at a wedding. Like Lubavitch Archives and enjoy daily historical pictures: www.facebook.com/LubavitchArchives.

Perception or Deception? The Pious Animal Inclination
When Kaiser Wilhelm sought to invade Belgium, he was reminded of the signed treaty agreements, of which his actions would be in blatant violation. Dourly brushing the matter aside the Kaiser declared: “We shall take Belgium! As for the treaties? We can trust the philosophers to supply the necessary explanations.”
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Shneor Zalmen and Sara (nee Reyder) Marshall (Crown Heights)
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Naftoli Hertz and Rochel Leah (nee Gopin) Hildeshaim (Crown Heights)
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Mendel and Racheli (nee Broderick) Levertov (Crown Heights)

Video: Our True Qualities
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shoftim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What are our true qualities?

Letter & Spirit: Depression vs. Bitterness
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the difference between negative feelings that are productive, and those that are destructive. 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.

Jewish Driver Saved from Mob After Striking Black Child
On Tuesday evening, Shomrim received an urgent call that a heated dispute had broken out between a large crowd of African-Americans and a few Jews, and that the situation was deteriorating and rapidly descending into chaos.