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Tzviki Raksin (Crown Heights) and Elky Fetter (Melbourne, Australia)
L’Chaim Thursday at Chovevei Torah
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Video: Shliach Holds ‘Moment of Inspiration’
Before Pesach, Chabad of Oxnard Director and Port Hueneme Police Chaplain Rabbi Dov Muchnik lead a “moment of inspiration” to the Board of Ventura County Supervisors on at the Ventura Government Center. He followed that by the Pledge of Allegiance.
Audio: Savage Attacks Bris Milah
Nationally syndicated radio talk show host Michael Savage took on the topic of metzitza b’peh in his Savage Nation program yesterday, devoting the entire program to the practice.
Sefer HaMaamarim Published in Spanish
In honor of Yud Alef Nissan, the Rebbe’s 111 birthday, Editorial Kehot Lubavitch Sudamericana has released the first volume of Chassidic Discourses in Spanish introducing the learning of Maamorim in a clear and self explanatory Shiur-Type edition for the Latin-American community around the world.
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Sender and Rochel Tema (nee Weiser) Lustig (Atlanta, GA)
Firebug Sets 13 Mezuzos on Fire in Williamsburg
On a day when the world remembered the millions who died in the Holocaust, a dozen Jewish residents of a Brooklyn apartment building had religious objects torched by a hate-filled vandal.
Photos: Putting up the ‘Moshiach’ Sign on Kingston
A group of people put up a sign on Kingston and President last night, coinciding with the date the Rebbe said the Sicha on Chof Ches Nissan “Do All That You Can to Bring Moshiach”.
Picture of the Day: Reb Itche and Reb Pinyeh
A reader has shared this photo of Reb Itche Springer and Reb Pinyeh Korf at the wedding of Shmuel and Nechama Namirovski in 1992. Reb Itche is seen in the photo reciting a Brocho of the Sheva Brachos.
Army Presentation Lumps Many Religions with Extremists
In a story appearing in London’s Daily Mail a photo of terrorist Osama Bin Laden appeared side by side with that of Rabbi Sholom Mendel Simpson, one of the Rebbes secrataries, along with the caption ‘spot the religious extremist’. The disturbing and offensive likening of the two came in a story about a U.S. Army Reserve presentation which lumped many different religious groups into the ‘extremist’ category.
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Yankele and Schani (nee Rappoport) Klausner (Zurich, Switzerland)
CH Coworking Space Offers Community Members Creative Edge
On a recent, unusually cool Spring afternoon, the energy of up-and-coming Crown Heights entrepreneurs fills the CHYE Workspace. Two business partners finalize the plans for their new start-up on a bank of couches near the entrance, while the clack of fingers of others fills the room. Near the back, a writer and designer stand, cups of coffee in hand, discussing potential partnership opportunities.
Hundreds Attend the Levaya of R. Lipa Dubrawsky OBM
Hundreds partook in the Levaya of Rabbi Lipa Dubrawsky OBM, Shliach in Vancouver, BC with many Shluchim in attendance.
Thatcher Recalls the Rebbe and his Exemplary Leadership
Today came the saddening news of the passing of Margaret Thatcher first female British Prime Minster, known as the ‘Iron Lady’ for her staunch conservative stand. She came to know of the Rebbe during her tenure as the Minister of Education and to greatly admire him, she recalled the Rebbes exemplary leadership in an interview.
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22 Years to the Sicha – “Do All That You Can”
Today, Chof Ches Nissan marks 22 years to the Sicha the Rebbe said unexpectedly in 5751 after returning from the Ohel. With great pain the Rebbe said declared “that all that I have done… it is up to you to do all that you can to bring Moshiach down here…” AD MOSAI?!
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Ahron and Chaya (nee Angyalfi) Blasberg (Crown Heights)
Picture of the Day: The Flying Rabbi
Taking advantage of the warm Florida weather, “The Flying Rabbi” Rabbi Joshua Runyan, an FAA accredited Gold Seal flight instructor and editor at Chabad.org, puts on tefillin with a passenger after learning that he’s Jewish, and together they celebrated the first ever “bar mitzvah” at Brooksville Airport, near Tampa.
