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.]
A special presentation in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Rebbe’s recovery from a heart attack in 1977.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic – 70 Years of the Hayom Yom.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique newly-released photo of the Rebbe at a Lag Ba’omer parade in the Late ’60s. With special thanks to Rabbis Shmuel and Pinny Lew.
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