The 5th annual Miami Torah Experience, directed by Rabbi Immanuel Storfer, took place in North Miami Beach, Florida from Dec. 25 to Jan. 2, with over twenty five participants from various Universities in North and South America.
Moshe and Sarah Chanah (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
For 180 young Shluchim, the ‘Shtetl’ is not merely a thing of the past, pulled from an exciting story book, but rather a living and vital part of their Shlichus.
Yossele and Miriam Bryna (nee Steinmetz) Shuchat (Las Vegas, NV)
Thousands of people around the world this week will finish learning Maimonides’ magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, which he termed a compendium of all the laws of the Torah. Learning three chapters a day, it took them the better part of the past year to plough through the 1,000-chapter monograph.
Eli and Devorah Leah (nee Kamman) Bogart (New Haven, CT)
Sholom Zochor will be at 672 Eastern Pkwy. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Chaim Sasonkin (Akron, OH) and Mushkee Raksin (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
A staunch liberal ally of newly elected mayor Bill de Blasio has been elected as New York City council speaker today.
This photo is of the first students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch in 770. It was taken shortly after the Yeshiva moved into the newly purchased Eastern Parkway building in the early 1940s.
This morning, some men who were using the Mikvah at Eliyahu Nochum Shul on Lefferts Ave. were shocked upon returning to the dressing room to find that several articles of their clothing were missing.
A school bus burst into flames on Avenue N between Coney Island Avenue and East 10th Street in Flatbush Tuesday morning, minutes after unloading the children at a nearby school. Boruch Hashem, there were no injuries.
The work of 100 men serving overseas as emissaries on behalf of Chabad will count as national service, a Knesset committee decided.
Mr. Howard Sherman is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, Nathan, OBM, at 679 Lefferts Ave. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio surrounded himself with labor leaders Monday morning, the latest choreographed show of support for his signature campaign promise to fund universal pre-kindergarten programs with a tax increase on the wealthy.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Beshalach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should one view the challenges and difficulties in doing what G-d wants?
According to Rabbi Yosef Y. Biston, the spiritual leader of the Chabad of Parkland, the regional headquarters for Chabad of North Broward and South Palm Beach, “The Chabad philosophy does not measure success in physical terms — with figures, tables, charts, graphs and numbers. We don’t keep a list — every mitzvah is a success in itself. We’re not counting. We’re doing.”
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