In a Sicha delivered during the first Lebanon War in 1982, the Rebbe said that the best possible protection for an IDF soldier is to have a letter written in a Sefer Torah on his behalf. (Subtitles in Hebrew.)
Cheskel and Bayla (nee Sandman) Edelman (New Haven, CT)
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Matos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one create peace?
For the first time this season, the Health Department has detected West Nile virus in New York City mosquitoes.
The bunk of counselor Mendy Herson (today director of Chabad of Basking Ridge, NJ) poses for a group portrait at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY, summer of 1983. Can you identify any of the campers?
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Montreal, Canada were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds despite the rainy weather.
Records show that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to dramatically cut the number of unnecessary tickets given out to New Yorkers is falling a bit short, and that the total number of summonses issued over the first five months of 2014 is up from 2013.
During a recent conference for European rabbis, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar greeted a 102-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor, who informed him that he had not put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah in 1926! The chief rabbi immediately helped the man put on Tefilin and say a prayer, which the man did with tears in his eyes.
Two Israelis were wounded following a barrage of rocket and mortar fire, one of whom succumbed to his wounds. The victim, Dror Chanin, 37, was at the Erez Crossing delivering food and cheer to soldiers when a barrage of rockets and mortars rained down and critically wounding him.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Lake Worth, Florida were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
Last night, on the eve of the fast of 17 Tammuz and the three week period of mourning during which music is prohibited, singing star Benny Friedman performed a lively concert for the students of the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Yoav and Lital (nee Zeluff) Ben Yoav (London, UK)
With Hamas rockets still being hurled at Israel for the seventh straight day, Israelis found something to cheer about as Yarin Levy, a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured yesterday in a rocket attack in Ashkelon regained consciousness this morning.
A Jewish woman doctor from New York is claiming “hate crime” after an eavesdropping Palestinian woman had her booted from her flight home from Palm Beach.
The campers of Mechane Mamosh (AKA Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp) went Friday to do Mivtza Tefilin with fellow Jews for the sake of the security of Eretz Yisroel.
Paris, the city of light: the city of love. The city of quaint, the city of chic. The city of Kristallnacht. Only no German this time: Arabic, and Arabic-infused French. And technically it’s not nacht, it’s in broad daylight. And no black-and-white reel-to-reel; it’s as full-colored as the thingamajig you’re reading this on.
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