The official representatives of the Chabad/Lubavitch community in Israel have joined calls by other leading religious and political figures against the surrender of Israeli territory to the Palestinian Authority.
After publishing a video last week of the Rebbe’s visit to Camp Gan Israel in Swan Lake, NY in 1960, we obtained more footage of the Rebbe’s visit that summer – and life around camp in general.
What do you get when three rabbis and a self-described “Chassidic feminist” share the stage? Some pretty frank and entertaining discussions.
Yosef and Sarah (nee Frisch) Shidler (Crown Heights)
Chabad activists have taken three synagogues on wheels on a journey into Siberia and central Russia.
Newly elected Knesset Member Benjamin Netanyahu visits the Rebbe: “I had much satisfaction from your first speech in the Knesset. Continue along this approach, for it is the best path to avoid war. You will have to struggle with 119 others in the Knesset, but surely you won’t be intimidated, because G-d is on this side.”
A letter was released by an anonymous group (purportedly) comprised of Chabad Rabbonim in Eretz Yisroel, urging Lubavitchers not to purchase Gemaras or other Seforim from the popular Oz Vehadar Publications.
A unique rabbi has turned Tuesdays in Santa Monica’s Ocean Park into something special for the homeless and needy. For the past three years, Rabbi Boruch S. Cunin of Chabad House in West Lost Angeles has walked the park, giving food to those in need, and offering encouragement.
A tradition which began in the summer of 5736 (1976) took on new heights this past Shabbos at the Rebbe’s Ohel.
Yehuda and Sarah (nee Spangenth
Avrami Cohen (Pittsburgh, PA) and Kayla Elshevich (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Sunday (Aug. 4th) at Chevras Ahavas Yisroel
306 Albany Ave. [between Eastern Pkwy. and Lincoln Pl.]
“When my classmates asked me what religion I am, I made them guess,” Luca Koo, 15 from Budapest, Hungary says. “They went through the whole list before I told them I’m Jewish.”
New York City’s crackdown on big, sugary sodas is staying on ice. An appeals court ruled Tuesday that the city’s Board of Health exceeded its legal authority and acted unconstitutionally when it tried to put a size limit on soft drinks served in city restaurants.
The Alter Rebbe’s Niggun (Preceded by the Hachona Niggun and followed by a rendition of ‘Nye Zhurite’) was performed by the Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Israel Edelson, at a Colel Chabad Dinner in New York.
Counselors, learning teachers and General Staff enjoyed a delicious ‘staff appreciation barbecue’ on Sunday night at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
Mendy Bercovitz (Miami Beach, FL) and Esther Leah Witkes (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chabad Rabbi and emissary to Dagestan, Rabbi Ovadia Isakov, who was shot and critically wounded last week by a Muslim terrorist and flown to Israel for medical care, has been moved from the Intensive Care Unit at Beilinson Hospital in Petach Tikva to a regular hospital ward.
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