Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation Saturday to lower New York City’s speed limit from 30 mph to 25 mph, saying slowing down will cut down on pedestrian and motorist deaths. The new limit is expected to go into effect in three months, once the city approves its own law formalizing it.
Shuly Labkowsi, the daughter of Reb Yosef Raksin HYD, spoke out on Motzai Shabbos, calling the murder of her father a hate crime and demanded that police investigate it as such.
As the summer comes to a close, a select group of Talmidim at the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ traveled to the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens to give thanks for an incredible summer and to share with the Rebbe their accomplishments.
Members of the Chabad community were out in force at a large solidarity rally in support of Israel outside Parliament house in Melbourne, Sunday 14 Av 5744. The rally attracted over 2,000 people, numerous politicians and other community leaders.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Tzivia Zaklos, a beloved educator and veteran member of the Lubavitch community in Montreal, Canada. She was 57 years old.
Yissachar and Tamar Izak (Crown Heights)
A Lubavitcher was seriously injured in a ATV crash in the Evergreen Estates bungalow colony in Loch Sheldrake, NY. The man, who was riding the vehicle with his daughter, was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center and is listed in critical condition. Please say Tehillim for Tzvi Hersh ben Guttel.
“The verse ‘Honor G-d with your property,’ can also be read as ‘Honor G-d with your voice.’ This is especially appropriate for a cantor such as yourself,” says the Rebbe to Cantor Joseph Malovany of the Fifth Avenue Synagogue.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. How much more so a video. Chabad Terror Victims Project continues its visits to the IDF soldiers wounded in the Gaza war, and will do so for as long as they are needed, no matter how long that may be. They bring them Chitases, special treats and iPads, and the comfort of their caring and concern. This short video demonstrates, as nothing else can, the emotional impact such visits have on these great heroes of Israel.
The following story was told by noted author and photographer Rabbi Bentzion Elisha, which describes a miraculous experience he had while traveling on Merkos Shlichus as a Bochur. It appears in a book he published, titled 18 Frames of Being.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Mendel Feldman, Gabbai of Empire Shtiebel, will lead a discussion on the topic of the Mitzvah of Tzitzis.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he answers the age-old and universal question – why do good people suffer? 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.
After 72 hours of ‘ceasefire,’ at 8:00am this morning, the sounds of air raid sirens, civilians scrambling to safe areas and rockets exploding were heard throughout Ashkelon. By 2:00pm, over 50 rockets had landed in the area.
What a difference a week can make. Last Shabbos was Shabbos Chazon, the height of the three week period of mourning. On Shabbos Chazon we read the third of the three Haftora’s of rebuke, in which the prophet Yishayahu forewarns about the impending disaster that was about to befall the Jewish people as a result of their sins.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe after Mincha at a children’s rally, circa mid-1970s.
Yankel and Mushky (nee Blank) Pressman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 888 Montgomery St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] Apt. #A5
Danny and Mushki Denburg (Johannesburg, South Africa)
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