The Besht, now located at 563 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], will be hosting three renowned lecturers who will inspire the congregants with words of Torah through the first night of Shavuos. The lecturers are: Rabbi Yosef Paltiel, Rabbi Chaim Miller and Rabbi Zalman Abraham.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe holding his Sefer Torah during Shachris in 770.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yochanon Halevi ben Menucha Kraindel, a Florida Shliach who has yet to come too following a procedure.
Chaim Rosenstein (Oak Park, MI) and Bassy Goldstein (Monsey, NY/Cleveland, OH)
Shalom and Aharona Lubin (Parsippany, NJ)
Students from Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles presented the Rebbe a special present in honor of his birthday on Yud Aleph Nissan. The students learned a combined 108,337 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and more. This Sunday the students were rewarded for their efforts in a special ceremony.
This charming video, produced by The Jewish Daily Forward’s Martyna Starosta, portrays the daily life of a ‘nice Jewish boy’ from Borough Park who makes his living exterminating unwanted pests from local Jewish homes.
Both Rabbi Chaim Miller and Rabbi Joseph Telushkin recently published extensive biographies on the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The two met in the Upper West Side of Manhattan to exchange copies of their respective books – and posed for the obligatory photo.
On Shabbos, unknown perpetrators set fire to a roadside Chabad house near Baqa al-Gharbiyye, an Israeli-Arab village. The attack, which coincided with the torching of a synagogue in Petach Tikvah, is suspected to be Arab retaliation for ‘price-tag’ attacks.
A most lavish affair, held in the grand ballrooms of Oholei Torah, gathered over 500 guests, parents and supporters to celebrate the 58th year of Oholei Torah. Rabbi Sholom Rosenfeld, Director of Oholei Torah, commented that the wide spectrum of honorees and guests that the Oholei Torah dinners have included help ensure the growth and expansion of the mossad.
This morning, shortly after 8:30am, a Borough Park Chesed volunteer picked up two women headed for cancer treatment in Manhattan hospitals. He was quickly pulled over by a TLC (Taxi and Limousine Commission) police officer.
In keeping with his annual tradition, Oholei Torah teacher Rabbi Levi Borenstein invited his 8th grade class to his home on Balfour Place, where they enjoyed a delicious barbecue and held a Siyum on the Gemara they learned over the course of the year.
Rabbi Yisroel Osdoba‘s fourth grade Oholei Torah students created delicious edible art-and-crafts – Har Sinai and Luchos made from candy – for the upcoming Yomtov of Shavuos.
Ava Wildstein of Westchester, New York was celebrating her Bat Mitzvah and she wanted to use this special occasion to help other children, specifically girls like her of Bat Mitzvah age.
Yesterday, Sunday, June 1st, tens of thousands of Jews from all around the tri-state area gathered in upper Manhattan to express Jewish pride and support for Israel at the annual Israel Day Parade. As wherever large numbers of Jews are present, Chabad Chassidim where there to help any Jew who wished put on Tefilin.
At yesterday’s Israel Day Parade on Manhattan’s 5th Avenue, dozens of young Chabad volunteers gave thousands of revelers the opportunity to put on Tefilin, receive Shabbos candles and sign up for JNet, among other forms of outreach.
