Visiting Rome for the wedding of a nephew, Rabbi Chezki and Chani Lifshitz – who are Shluchim in Kathmandu, Nepal – toured the ancient ruins of the city on Friday afternoon when a man dressed as a roman called out to them and asked if they had Tefillin.
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A special women’s event was held in Jerusalem last Monday in honor of the 20th anniversary of Gimmel Tammuz. In attendance were famous Israeli musicians Eviatar Banai and Michi Yosefi.
A 23-year-old African-American man was stabbed to death on Utica Avenue in Crown Heights early Shabbos morning.
Moishe and Sarale (nee Naparstek) Orimland (Ventnor, NJ)
After decades of being served by “Roving Rabbis”—rabbinical students sent by Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters to traverse the state each summer—Mississippi is poised to become the 49th state in the union to have its own full-time Chabad presence.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Batsheva Kalmanson OBM, wife of the Mashpiah Rabbi Yekutiel Dov Kalmanson OBM. Levaya times added.
Chasidic singing star Avraham Fried sings his classic ‘Tanya’ while visiting the Sha’ar family tonight, Motzei Shabbos, to comfort them on the loss of their 16-year-old son, Gilad, OBM, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists along with two of his friends.
Yehoshua and Rivky Botnick (Ottawa, Canada)
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski was on vacation with his family in Scottsboro, Alabama when he made a startling discovery while browsing through a store that sells unclaimed airline baggage – seven pairs of Tefilin on sale for just $45 dollars each. The return of two of those pairs – which once belonged to Reb Dovid Malka, OBM, of Crown Heights, and which he gave to his oldest grandson for his Bar Mitzvah shortly before he passed away last fall – is an amazing tale of Hashgacha Protis.
A car burglar on the prowl at 6:00am was apprehended by a group of Shomrim volunteers, following a phone call to their hotline.
In this New York Times feature video, a few of the tens of thousands of pilgrims who flocked to his gravesite on the 20th anniversary of his passing are interviewed.
Hundreds of Jews packed into the Sea Breeze Jewish Center in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn for an evening of reflection and inspiration on the day of Gimel Tamuz. In addition to the inspiring messages by the speakers, they were moved by the songs of the Rebbe and a film commemorating his life’s work.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner, Rosh Kollel of 770 Montgomery, will lead a discussion on the topic – “Can a Machlokes be healthy?”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe clapping at a Farbrengen in the mid 1980s.
Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY commemorated Gimmel Tammuz with the appropriate Hachonos in Camp and a visit to the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens. The trip culminated with a lebedike fabrengen in Crown Heights.
If you didn’t know that the Torah had a sense of humor, you probably missed the narrative at the center of this week’s Parsha – the legendary tale of two highly influential leaders, Balak and Bilaam who rapidly slipped from grace and glory into the depth of shame and depravity.
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