For its second year in a row, the Friendship Circle of South Bay, California under the auspices of Chabad of Redondo Beach, raised over $1 Million with over 11,000 attending its annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk. The walk was organized in partnership with the Sketchers Foundation and Nickelodeon.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftaly Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic – A survey of the Rebbe’s commentary on the famous Vayera story with the Rebbe Rashab.
Sholomke and Chani (nee Posner) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Yoel and Elisheva (nee Kaplan) Gansburg (Tzfat, Israel)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe during a Yud Aleph Nissan Farbrengen, circa 1975. Next to the Rebbe is a pile of many birthday gifts he received.
Teachers and students at the Cheder Menachem day school in Los Angeles were called for an assembly on Monday. There was some anticipation as they waited to hear who among their teachers would be awarded the Milken Family Foundation Jewish Educator Award.
After a packed house the past three years, Breslover musician Yosef Karduner is returning to Crown Heights for a fourth performance. Also performing is Yishai Lapidot and Yellow Red Sky.
Mendel and Dvora (nee Maister) Lakein (Crown Heights)
Exclusive: Rabbi Ariel Mashash, leader of one of Paris’s large Jewish communities and son of the late Chief Rabbi of Paris Rabbi David Mashash OBM, visited Lubavitch World Headquarters, the Rebbes library and the Ohel.
This was a car break-in the likes of which Shomrim never experienced before. A man was apprehended after smashing the window of a minivan, only police later discovered that he had the owner’s permission to do so.
Zalmy Refson (Leeds, UK) and Zelly Ceitlin (Montreal, Canada)
Two years ago, four people were injured in a firebombing of a Kosher supermarket located in a predominately Jewish neighborhood in Paris. Recently the arsonist, a 27-year-old ambulance driver, was convicted and sentenced to four years in prison.
As heavy rocket and artillery fire pounded the eastern Ukrainian city of Donetsk last week, teachers at the city’s Ohr Avner Jewish Day School rushed their students into a room in the building’s center, where they silently waited for the barrage to end. Classes were dismissed early that day, and the 20 children in attendance—a small fraction of the amount the school had before the war—were sent home for the rest of the week.
In some significant way, the opening this month of a kollel, a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city was graced by distinguished rabbis. It is yet another of many signs of the recent rise of Jewish life in Germany, much of it due to the Chabad centers—nearly 20 of them—across the country.
The Elementary School boys of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami have made history, and for a very good cause.
