A letter overflowing with hate and venom against the Chabad community was published by the Riverdale Press yesterday. Written by Patty Goldstein, the letter questioned the decision of a local councilman to give a $5,000 grant to a Chabad Center. The writer objects to this grant because Chabad is “a vile, racist, Jewish supremacist organization.”
A designer of the National September 11th Memorial & Museum is gathering chilling historical artifacts for Brooklyn’s first Holocaust museum.
Members of Anash farbrenged in honor of the Rebbe’s father’s Yahrtzeit, the 20th of Av, in the central Chabad Shul in Montreal. The farbrengen lasted until the wee hours of the morning.
Marking Chof Av, Camp Gan Israel of Parksville, NY made the two hour trip from upstate New York back to the city to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel and daven Mincha in 770.
Campers enjoy their sixth week at Lubavitch Day Camp in Monsey, NY.
With the school year fast approaching, buying all the necessary school supplies and books can be financially overwhelming for some families. But thanks to the help of Kiryat Malachi resident Ephraim Mor and the Israeli city’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yeruslavsky, Georgian-immigrant families in the southern town received new backpacks filled with notebooks and writing utensils.
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.
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