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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.”
Shneor Zalmen and Sara (nee Reyder) Marshall (Crown Heights)
Naftoli Hertz and Rochel Leah (nee Gopin) Hildeshaim (Crown Heights)
Mendel and Racheli (nee Broderick) Levertov (Crown Heights)
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?
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.
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.
An emotional wedding took place this week in a villa in the outskirts of Vinnitza, a city in central Ukraine. Two Jewish university students, among dozens who attend the weekly ‘Stars’ program run by local Shluchim Rabbi Shaul and Chana Horowitz, were married amid much joy and celebration.
Earlier this summer, some 130 members of the Crown Heights Jewish community gathered to cheer on four intrepid entrepreneurs as they pitched their start-ups at Fund It.
In what is being billed as the first ever Chasidic wedding in Thailand, hundreds of guests – including Shluchim, travelers and members of the local Jewish community – gathered in Bangkok today for the wedding celebration of Gabi Kaltmann of Melbourne, Australia, and Mushki Kantor, daughter of Chabad Shliach to Thailand Rabbi Yosef Chaim Kantor.
During the summer months of any other year, southeastern Ukraine’s seaside city of Mariupol would draw scores of tourists to its foaming shores. Vacationing by the sea, the morya, is almost a ritual in this part of the world, and until recently, Mariupol, an important port on the northern banks of the Azov Sea, had served that purpose well.
The body of Aron Sofer, the 23 year old yeshiva bochur who went missing on Friday, has been found in the Jerusalem Forest in Ein Kerem, according to a spokesperson for Ichud Hatzalah.
The UN published several maps showing the aftermath of Operation Protective Edge. The maps mark damaged buildings with red dots scattered throughout Gaza. But this map tells only half the story: Hamas used many of these buildings – including houses, hospitals and schools – as sites to launch rockets and carry out other attacks.
Michoel and Rivky (nee Glassner) Goldin (Teaneck, NJ)
Today Rabbi Mottel and Chana Sharfstein of Crown Heights mark their 60th wedding anniversary. In honor of the occasion, CrownHeights.info presents the story of how the Rebbe guided Chana in finding her soul-mate, written by Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski of Lubavitch Archives.
On Monday evening, police officials and community leaders from Miami-Dade met with residents of the North Miami Beach Jewish community to inform them of the latest updates in the unsolved case of a Crown Heights rabbi who was shot and killed while walking to synagogue on August 9, but despite police outreach many residents remain fearful, wondering whether or not the case will ever be solved.
