In light of the situation in The Land of Israel in recent days, and following the Rebbe’s call during the 1967 War to add in Mitzvos – specifically reaching out and putting on Tefillin with Jews who would otherwise not, Bochurim from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ headed out this Friday to Rutgers University to do Mivtzoim with the newly formed “Rutgers Jewish Outreach” – a program of Chabad of New Jersey.
R’ Pinchas Rieber is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Mrs. Baila Rieber, OBM, at 640 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shachris: 9:30
Mincha: Shkia
Maariv: Tzeis
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
This video, a tribute to Mr. Sami (Shmuel) Rohr, was shown at the International Conference of Shluchim, 2012. The clip begins with an address by Mr. Rohr to the Conference in 2006, which touches on the two themes of the 2012 Conference — 200 years from the Alter Rebbe’s passing and 70 years from the writing of the Hayom Yom.
The students of RAP (Rabbi Avtzon’s Program) in Jerusalem joined together to Farbreng in honor of their fellow soldiers who are currently fighting for the security of the Holy Land, many of whom are their close friends and relatives.
A Grad rocket fired from Gaza at noon on Saturday tore through a 10-story building in the center of Ashdod that houses a Chabad synagogue, which less than an hour earlier had been packed with congregants.
Yehoshua Horvitz (Tzfat, Kiryat Malachi, Israel) and Mushky (bas R’ Zalman) Hertzel (Crown Heights)
Hundreds of Chassidim of all stripes gathered at Yeshivas Toras Emes in Jerusalem to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Kislev – the day the Rebbe returned home after suffering a heart attack in 1977. The gathering was also an opportunity to mourn the three lives lost that morning in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nachlat Har Chabad.
Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has visited Chabad’s Our Big Kitchen in Sydney, Australia.
Shmuel and Rivki (nee Procel) Karnowsky (Melbourne, Australia)
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With sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Isaac Sokel, OBM, of Boro Park, NY. R’ Isaac is survived by his wife, Mrs. Sarah Sokel, and daughter, Mrs. Hindy Borenstein of Poughkeepsie, NY.
Moshe and Esther Leah (nee Flinkenstein) Teldon (Crown Heights)
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A fire at the Chabad Russian Center of Thornhill Woods at 8808 Bathurst St. has rendered it unusable and destroyed its makeshift basement shul.
This morning, congregants arrived in 770 to find that the area surrounding the Bimah (platform were the Torah is read) was completely trashed, heaped with garbage and desecrated.
Shmuly and Chavi (nee Grunblatt) Geisinsky
555 Crown St. [corner Albany AVe.] Apt. 3C
Shmuel and Henna (nee Haber) Kopel
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Eli and Shterni Lando
Bais Eliezer Yitzchok, 394 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.]
Yossi and Nechama Dina (nee Keller) Saacks
935 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
