As a follow up to last week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter written by famed Orthodox Jewish author Herman Wouk to the Lubavitcher Rebbe (in response to the letter we published last week), as well as the Rebbe’s subsequent response to him. The Rebbe’s letter was written through his trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and both letters were made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
44 boys from Oholei Torah elementary school will be part of a marching band at the Lag BaOmer parade this coming Sunday. Seizing the decent weather the band marched on the streets of Crown Heights and practiced their beats.
A sharp letter regarding certain practices that have taken root in the Lubavitch community on Lag Ba’omer was released today by Rabbi Y. Y. Yeruslavsky, a leading Chabad rabbinical authority in Israel.
Yesterday, the Oholei Torah Mesivta class of Rabbi Chaim Yisroel Wilhelm enjoyed a biking trip around Brooklyn. The outing was intended to boost the Bochurim’s learning by providing them with a refreshing break from the rigors of study.
While workmen transformed the Chabad of South Broward building’s exterior from South Florida stucco to the look of Old Jerusalem, Rabbi Raphael Tennenhaus remembered the man who envisioned a Florida Jerusalem campus.
Chaim and Batsheva (nee Scott) Feldman (Hollywood, FL)
CrownHeights.info has obtained unique footage, filmed by a member of the Crown Heights community, of the Rebbe making his entrance to the Lag Ba’omer parade exactly three decades ago, in the year 1984.
Yonah and Devorah (nee Reboh) Heidings (Monsey, NY)
A 16-year-old public high school student was arrested this morning after he destroyed several gumball machines belonging to a Kingston Ave. merchant.
Hershel and Chaya Rosenbluh (Monsey, NY)
Levi and Sara (nee Piekarski) Hurwitz (Crown Heights)
This week, more than 100 Chabad shluchos in Europe are attending a rich seminar program of fascinating lectures, special shiurim, packed programs, panels, and gourmet meals. The seminar has been arranged by the “Chana” women’s organization and produced by Fleishmann Productions.
Rabbi Moshe Moscowitz, chief rabbi and Chabad Shliach to Kharkov, Ukraine, visited Mayor Gennady Kernes at the Rambam hospital in Haifa, Israel, where he is being treated after he was shot in an attempted assassination amid Ukraine’s ongoing volatility.
While appearing on Conan O’Brien‘s late night show, actress Lisa Kudro – who is Jewish – explains why Conan shouldn’t be offended that he wasn’t invited to her son’s Bar Mitzvah. “He was just having a nice time at the mall when suddenly, out of nowhere, he became a man,” thanks to a Lubavitcher Bochur doing Mivtzoim.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Bechukosai. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do we receive G-d’s blessings?
Mikhail Runkin, a 26 year old university student from Yekaterinburg Russia, was nervous. He hadn’t imagined that he’d share one of life’s intimate milestones in a public setting. But on a recent Friday night, as he celebrated Shabbat dinner with 300 students, rabbis and lecturers, including the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, Mikhail was focused on one individual, a girl he’d met only a few months earlier. Unannounced, he stood up on his chair in the middle of the meal and proposed to Shaina Katzinova. Shaina accepted, and the entire room erupted into jubilant cheering and shouts of “Mazal Tov!”
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