“There’s a great debate raging in Lubavitch these days, and Boruch Hashem, it’s not about shidduchim, tuition costs, Meshichism, or shluchim’s territorial claims,” writes blogger Hirshel Tzig. Rather, the debate in question is over the proper way to put on one’s Talis according to Chabad custom.
In the French city of Pau, located near the border with Spain at the foothills of the Pyrenees, a brand-new state-of-the-art Mikvah was dedicated yesterday, Sunday, November 2nd.
In conjunction with the siyum Sefer Torah that the Mangel family is making this Tuesday, the 11th of Cheshvan, in honor of Rabbi Nissan Mangel’s birthday, l’arichas yomim v’shonim tovim for him and the entire family, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Avtzon relates the following story about a siyum Sefer Torah:
About three months ago, Rabbi Yosef Raksin of Crown Heights left his daughter’s home in North Miami Beach, FL, on his way to Shul Shabbos morning. He never arrived.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday, November 4, for Election Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Every year, following Sukkos, Chabad of Rechavia in Jerusalem organizes a community-wide Kiddush Levana celebration, in compliance with the Rebbe’s directives on Parashat Noach, 1992.
After years of digging through the files of the KGB—the communist state security agency formerly known as the NKVD—a mass grave with over a dozen Chabad-Lubavitch followers murdered at the hands of the Soviets in 1928, was located and marked with tombstone last week.
On Friday, the Australian Minister for Children and Early Childhood Development, Wendy Lovell, and Member Parliament for Bentleigh Elizabeth Miller joined families and Jewish community leaders at Bentleigh East’s Beis Menachem Community Centre to announce a $515,000 upgrade to the co-located Gan Gabi and Rivki Early Learning Centre.
Shmuel Cohen (Lakewood, NJ) and Basha Rochel Bongart (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Tuesday night at Bais Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
During his speech before the volunteers participating in the annual Masa Israel internship program, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu invoked the Lubavitcher Rebbe in his plea that upon returning to their countries of origin that they defend the state of Israel.
Sholom Dov Ber (Berry) and Gitty (nee Losh) Blachman (Monsey, NY)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 41, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Stinginess, Parents’ Obligation, Favoritism, Children Hurt by the System, The Politics of Kashrus, Peer Pressure, The Rebbe’s Igros (Pt. 2) and More.
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.
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