Kehot to Reprint Reb Levik’s Manuscripts
This summer, on the 20th of Menachem-Av, Kehot will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, of blessed memory.
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Photo Gallery #2: Uforatzta in Times Square
The colorful postcard marketing the 6th Annual CTeen Shabbaton in New York showcased a “PhotoShopped” image of the shabbaton and Jewish superstar Alex Clare advertised on Manhattan’s jumbotrons and billboards. Never would the 1,000 shabbaton participants from over 110 communities around the world have dreamt that this would be a reality at the climax of the three-day shabbaton during the Havdallah ceremony in Times Square.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner, OBM, of Brighton, Massachusetts. He was an educator and was devoted to the Rebbe's Mivtzoim.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Leib Scheiner OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner, OBM, of Brighton, Massachusetts. He was an educator and was devoted to the Rebbe’s Mivtzoim.
Photos: INN, Shturem.net.
Education Minister Praises Chabad Schools
Israeli Deputy Minister of Education Avi Wortzman visited a unique school affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement last Tuesday, and came away highly impressed.
Arutz 7
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R. Tzvi Ostrozynski, 60, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Tzvi Ostrozynski, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. He was 60 years old. Update: Levaya and Shiva times added.
New Engagement!
Nachman Rivkin (Tampa, FL) and Mussi Vogel (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Tuesday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
Tanya Printed at Massive Protest Against IDF Draft
A portable Tanya printing press was on hand at the ‘Million Man Atzeres’ against the planned IDF draft of Yeshiva students that took place in Jerusalem yesterday.
Arabs Savagely Beat Young Lubavitcher in Paris
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported.
JTA
Hundreds Celebrate with Chabad of West Hempstead
On Thursday, February 13, Chabad of West Hempstead hosted their 5th annual dinner at The Garden City Hotel in Long Island.
Who Was Ari Halberstam? 20 Years Since Terror Strikes on the Brooklyn Bridge
Most of the millions of people who cross the Brooklyn Bridge every year have seen the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp signs, but many may not know who Ari Halberstam was, or why Mayor Rudolph Guiliani installed those signs in 1995.
Op-Ed: It’s Not About the Draft!
It was early 1948 and Jewish united forces in the British Mandate of Palestine mobilized against enemy armies trying to wash them from the region. The Jewish community worldwide took note. Among them was a young Rabbinical Student in Brooklyn, NY, Tzvi Hirsh Gansbourg. He had arrived in the States less than a year earlier – from the British Mandate of Palestine — to study alongside his Rabbi, the then leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneerson.
by Levi Margolin - Times of Israel
Rabbi Yosef Teitelbaum of Sherman Oaks writes the last letters of the Torah, while Rabbi Yitzchok "Yitzi" Hurwitz (right) beams with pride.
Torah a Tribute to Stricken Rabbi
Almost all of the new Torah at Chabad Jewish Center in Temecula, California was handwritten with a quill by a specially trained scribe in Jerusalem. But the inspiration for the text is the synagogue’s director, Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz.
Press-Enterprise
Chabad of Boulder Breaks Ground on New Center
Frigid outside temperatures didn’t deter more than 100 people from celebrating with Chabad Lubavitch of Boulder as they broke ground on their new Jewish Learning Center Sunday afternoon.
Boulder Jewish News
Picture of the Day: Another Generation in the Covenant
Continuing the tradition of his late grandfather Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Raskin, OBM, Rabbi Dovid Nissan Jacobs of Crown Heights performs a bris on his newborn son Sholom Dov Ber this past Friday at Beis Levi Yitzchok.
File photo: Drawing last year's winner.
Video: Camp Emunah Split the Pot Winner Drawn
Thanks to hundreds of contributions, a total of $10,119 was went into the Camp Emunah Scholarship Fund’s split the pot raffle. The lucky winner was drawn in front of the camera and was posted on YouTube late Sunday night. Winner in the Extended Article.
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