Hundreds of Jewish residents of the holy city of Tzfas, Israel, from all backgrounds and affiliations, gathered last night at a local Simcha hall for a grand Farbrengen marking 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz.
CrownHeights.info has obtained Never-before-seen footage of the Rebbe davening Shachris, which was filmed by the family of an Israeli boy who came to celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah in 770 in the winter of 1991.
On the last day of school, the students of Yeshivas Darchei Menachem’s Shiur Beis celebrated with two of their fellow classmates on the occasion of their completion of an entire Masechta of Gemara over the course of the year.
Israel doesn’t have a partner in peace. It doesn’t take 41 years to negotiate an understanding that we have a right not to be slaughtered. If we would have a peace partner, it should take no longer than 41 minutes to negotiate an eternal ceasefire.
When Rabbi Benjamin Blech was asked by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to go on a speaking tour in the Far East, he balked. The counsel the Rebbe gave Rabbi Blech changed his outlook on Jewish identity forever, and inspired his philosophy of a Jewish solidarity that disregards our individual differences.
Asher and Miriam (nee Newfield) Friedman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 530 Maple St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Loschak OBM, a Shliach in S. Barbra, California. He was 62 years old.
Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim packed into Beis Rivkah’s Rosa Hall in Campus Chomesh for a farbrengen in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Shlomie Litvin (Louisville, KY) and Shoshi Biggs (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Shimon Greenwald (Rechovot/Crown Heights) and Miriam Orimland (Tzfas/Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Dan Pine, a writer for the San Francisco area newspaper J Weekly, wrote the following feature article on the family of Chabad Shluchim in the Bay Area, which we share with our readers in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
With the final hours of Gimmel Tammuz approaching the lines extended as far as Francis Lewis Blvd, after tens of thousands had already made their way to visit the Ohel.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, wrote the following article on OU.org describing what he sees as the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s contribution to Torah Scholarship.
Over the past week, four large events were held in Manchester, UK in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, aimed at each individual segment of the local Jewish Community.
As the day progresses, thousands have made their way to Daven at the Rebbe’s graveside. At midday the Pan Kloli was read.
Men, women and children from throughout Israel traveled today to the homes of Eyal Yifrach, 19, from Elad; Gilad Shaar, 16, from Talmon; and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon for their funerals. The groups joined together at the Modi’in cemetery, where the boys were laid to rest side-by-side.
