Chasidic singing star Avraham Fried sings his classic ‘Tanya’ while visiting the Sha’ar family tonight, Motzei Shabbos, to comfort them on the loss of their 16-year-old son, Gilad, OBM, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists along with two of his friends.
Yehoshua and Rivky Botnick (Ottawa, Canada)
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski was on vacation with his family in Scottsboro, Alabama when he made a startling discovery while browsing through a store that sells unclaimed airline baggage – seven pairs of Tefilin on sale for just $45 dollars each. The return of two of those pairs – which once belonged to Reb Dovid Malka, OBM, of Crown Heights, and which he gave to his oldest grandson for his Bar Mitzvah shortly before he passed away last fall – is an amazing tale of Hashgacha Protis.
A car burglar on the prowl at 6:00am was apprehended by a group of Shomrim volunteers, following a phone call to their hotline.
In this New York Times feature video, a few of the tens of thousands of pilgrims who flocked to his gravesite on the 20th anniversary of his passing are interviewed.
Hundreds of Jews packed into the Sea Breeze Jewish Center in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn for an evening of reflection and inspiration on the day of Gimel Tamuz. In addition to the inspiring messages by the speakers, they were moved by the songs of the Rebbe and a film commemorating his life’s work.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rosh Kollel of 770 Montgomery, will lead a discussion on the topic – “Can a Machlokes be healthy?”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe clapping at a Farbrengen in the mid 1980s.
Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY commemorated Gimmel Tammuz with the appropriate Hachonos in Camp and a visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens. The trip culminated with a lebedike fabrengen in Crown Heights.
If you didn’t know that the Torah had a sense of humor, you probably missed the narrative at the center of this week’s Parsha – the legendary tale of two highly influential leaders, Balak and Bilaam who rapidly slipped from grace and glory into the depth of shame and depravity.
A group of Lubavitch girls living under the Stalin regime in the Soviet Union pose for a photograph, circa late 1930s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Yitzy and Malka (nee Silberberg) Bluming (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to a filmmaker regarding the depiction of biblical figures in film and other media. 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.
In commemoration of Rebbe’s 20th Yahrtzeit, the Jewish Museum of Berlin, in cooperation with the city’s Chabad Jewish Educational Center, hosted an evening of inspiration with Rabbi Joseph Telushkin, author of a biography on the Rebbe that has joined the New York Times Bestsellers list.
Hundreds of members of the Crown Heights community gathered this afternoon to pay their last respects to veteran California Shliach Rabbi Yosef Loschak, OBM, director of Chabad of S. Barbara, who passed away Tuesday at the age of 62.
On Tuesday, Gimmel Tammuz, campers and staff at Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY spent the early hours of the day on their respective preparations in anticipation of a trip to the Ohel.
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