A few weeks ago the My Encounter team received a lead to interview an 80-year old woman who received a fascinating letter from the Rebbe in Adar I, 1951 – just 5 weeks after the Rebbe assumed the mantle of leadership of the Chabad Lubavitch Movement on 10 Shevat.
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In our Torah portion we find what might be considered one of the most perplexing statements made in the entire Torah. What I am referring to is the very last verse of our Parsha, Beshalach, Chapter 17, Verse 16: “And He [G-d] said, For there is a hand on the throne of the Eternal, [that there shall be] a war for the Lord against Amalek from generation to generation.”
Nearly 48 hours after the disappearance of a sixteen year old Massachusetts teen, community members have joined police in an organized search for the missing 11th grader. UPDATE: He has been found!
Nine-year-old Dina Harrison is excited. Once a year, she and her classmates at Beth Rivkah Academy in Montreal, Canada, board yellow school buses and ride to a nursing facility or seniors’ residence, where they play mitzvah-themed games, sing Jewish songs and socialize over light refreshments with people old enough to be their great-grandparents.
In response to the great need and demand for applying Chassidus – the inner-soul dimension of Torah – to our personal and emotional lives, the Meaningful Life Center is launching MyLife, a new series of question and answer videos featuring Rabbi Simon Jacobson, addressing anything and everything on your minds and in your hearts—from the perspective of Torah and Chabad Chassidus.
This Shabbos, Yud Shevat, marks the 100th yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneerson (1834-1914), namesake of Bais Rivkah, the Chabad-Lubavitch flagship girls’ school.
Living the Legacy of the Rebbe and the Rav is an evening showcasing the special relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Y. B. Soloveitchik, which will be hosted by the Chabad Club of Yeshiva University.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Yaakov Shmuelevitz, OBM, Shliach to Beit Shean, Israel, at the age of 50.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Shmuel Yitzchok Stettin, OBM, of Montreal, Canada.
Surveillance video obtained by CrownHeights.info shows an African-American male entering the Bnos Menachem school bus and leaving with a pair of Tefilin.
Levi Weingarten (Flint, MI) and Fraidy Tiechtel (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Today marks the culmination of nearly a year of study for countless individuals around the globe – the completion of the Rambam’s codification of Jewish law.
A Siyum HaRambam was held at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens last night, which was attended by several dozen members of Anash.
Two London Shuls affected by similar tragedies joined together for an evening of Chizuk: Beis Shmuel, affectionately known as ‘Reb Chuna’s’ and Heichal Menachem, the local Anash Shul in Golders Green.
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.
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