New construction of a supermarket in the Polish-border town of Brest, formerly known as Brisk, today a part of Belarus, has left residents horrified, as the project has unearthed that many of the town’s homes and structures were built using recycled Jewish headstones left over from WWII.
Yossi Dalfin (North Bay Village, FL) and Geulah Malka Hecht (Brentwood, CA)
Rabbi Shmuel Marcus, Chabad emissary to Los Alamitos, California is driving very, very carefully. In the back seat of his car is a box with over a dozen 32 ounce containers of fresh, hot chicken soup wrapped in hot pink bags, and he does not want them to spill as he navigates an unfamiliar part of town. The homemade soup was just cooked by Marcus’s wife, Bluma, at their Chabad House, and the rabbi is on his way to personally deliver the containers, one by one, to elderly community members, shut-ins and families in crisis.
Jewish revival in the former Soviet Union continued last week with the dedication of yet another Jewish Center in the in city of Krasnodar. In a spectacular event, the building dedication began with the completion of a new Sefer Torah, followed by dancing in the city streets and a lavish meal in the new Center.
Srulik and Mushka (nee Dahan) Hartman (Crown Heights)
Berel and Rivky (nee Shemtov) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Berel and Brocha (nee Katz) Lerman (Crown Heights)
Chaim and Chaya Mushka (nee Korf) Stern (Miami Beach, FL)
Like rising dough, the attendee list for Chabad of Georgia’s “Mega Challah Bake” just kept growing—so much so that organizers had to find a new location to accommodate the huge crowd of more than 1,000 women on Wednesday night.
Shmaryohu and Huvy (nee Levitansky) Hackner (Crown Heights)
“In Eretz Yisroel, the prayers for rain begin on the seventh of Cheshvan. May we have the type of rain which brings blessings in tow, especially the blessing of the final redemption,” said the Rebbe to Rabbi Dov Berel Lipel on 7 Cheshvan, 5750 (November 5, 1989).
Sholom Ber and Libby (nee Slavin) Klein (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he emphasizes the obligation and duty of all of us, not only Rabbis, to spread the name of G-d and bring all people to worship him, in the spirit of Avraham Avinu’s life. 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.
A school district in Germany has caused quite the media stir this week after images of students saluting with Hitler-like mustaches surfaced in an influential publication. RT News interviewed Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel, Chabad Shliach to Berlin, for his perspective on the incident.
The American holiday of Halloween will take place tonight, Friday. While in most areas the holiday is celebrated by children dressing up in costumes and receiving candy, in Crown Heights many hoodlums have customarily celebrated the occasion by throwing eggs at and attacking Jewish residents on the streets of the neighborhood. In light of this situation, Shomrim has released a detailed PSA on what steps should be taken to remain safe throughout the ‘holiday.’
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe touching the Mezuzah as he goes from his office to Daven Maariv.
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