Photo Gallery: CGI Montreal ‘Section C’ Group Portrait
Campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-Montreal’s ‘Section C’ program posed in front of the camp’s ‘770’ for a group portrait.
Campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-Montreal’s ‘Section C’ program posed in front of the camp’s ‘770’ for a group portrait.
Shmuel and Chana (nee Chayempour) Aber (Crown Heights)
Lazar Krintzman (Los Angeles, CA) and Chani Bergovoy (Chicago, IL)
Oholei Torah’s Gan Menacham preschool posed for a group portrait outside their school on Eastern Parkway.
Avraham Fried performed at a concert in Israel last week with ‘Buba Myses’ – the Jewish puppet band.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Menachem Mendel Kripor, an infant only one month old. Menachem was the child of Rabbi and Mrs. Ofer Kripor, Shluchim of the Rebbe in Cusco, Peru.
Hundreds of Rabbanim, Shluchim, Anash and Bochurim, and thousands of children, celebrated the completion of the fifth Sefer Torah for Jewish Children at the Kosel today. The Sefer Torah’s letters were purchased by Jewish children throughout the world, following the directives of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, of blessed memory.
The video shows Muslim students on the University of California’s Irvine campus in February 2010 shouting anti-Israel epithets at guest speaker Michael Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.
Over 1,000 men turned out for a barbecue supporting the vital work of the Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society, which provides assistance in the form of medical insurance and doctor referrals for those diagnosed with yenem machlah. The event took place in Flatbush on the closed-off E. 22nd Street and Avenue I, in front of the home of Pinny and Yaffa Rand, who hosted the event.
About one thousand visitors and members of the Kiryat Arba community in Israel joined the dedication of the new Beis Chaya Mushka House, Tuesday, August 7. Perched in the Judean Hills overlooking the Cave of the Patriarchs, it will be the center of activities hosted by Rabbi Rafael and Mushka Brod, new emissaries to the Kiryat Arba-Hebron area. The Brods will be the fourth couple to serve the area, and will focus on youth activities as well as Torah classes.
If Max Zwain had to describe his trip to Israel in one word, he would choose “amazing.”
Two months ago, Miriam Leichtling’s parents lost their jobs within a week of each other. For several months, Leichtling, a New York designer who has led several organized trips to Israel, had been agonizing over how to scrape together enough money to send her parents, ages 66 and 71, to Israel. But the cost of airfare for three – normally starting at about $1,000 per ticket, with a layover — was prohibitive.
Yossele and Miriam Bryna (nee Steinmetz) Shuchat (Crown Heights)
Mr. Shmuel (Sami) Rohr, renowned philanthropist and patriarch of the Rohr family, passed away Sunday, August 5. He was was 86. Mr. Rohr, through the Rohr Family Foundation, spearheaded a renaissance of Jewish life and literacy in Jewish communities and on university campuses around the world. Today the Rohr family name is synonymous with Jewish education and outreach.
The bochurim of the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ traveled to the Rebbe’s resting place in Queens, in honor of the Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe’s father. Returning to Brooklyn, they took a tour of the Aguch library in 770, hearing all about the life of Reb Levik, and seeing his Torah writings, which were smuggled out of the Soviet Union by his wife, Rebbetzin Chana.
In honor of Chof Av, Yahrtzeit of the Rebbe’s father Reb Levik, the Rebbe’s house at 1304 President St. will be open for Ma’ariv, tonight, Tuesday, at 9:00pm.
The new Chabad center of Cote St. Luc in Montreal is near completion. The ceramic tiles from China for the lower level are due any day now, and a permanent Aron Kodesh for the main sanctuary upstairs will be ready soon, by Rosh Hashanah, IY”H; but 11 Torahs are in place, and for all intents and purposes, the tiles and the Aron amount to finishing touches.