Video: Holy Matrimonies (Part 2)

The newly-wed bride dons her Sheitel, and the Oprah Winfrey Network pays a visit to a Crown Heights wig-maker to learn how and why married Hasidic women hide their hair with a store-bought substitute.

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Video: Holy Matrimonies (Part 1)

The Oprah Winfrey Network presents a Traditional Hasidic Wedding: After knowing each other for just 4 months, Chava (nee Zviklin) and Michoel Shapiro wed in traditional Hasidic fashion, believing in time they will find the true love with each other that is only possible through the commitment of marriage.

Interview: Lubavitch Doesn’t Talk About the Holocaust

Left: Zalman Alpert. Right: Yeshiva University.

The Jewish Press’ Elliot Resnick conducted an Interview with Zalman Alpert, a Lubavitcher who is the Yeshiva University Librarian and an expert on Jewish history. Among other topics, Zalman discusses his family’s Lubavitch background, his own identity as a Lubavitcher, and the reason for Lubavitch’s relative lack of focus on the Holocaust.

Adaptive Israel Trip Forges Special Bonds

About 50 participants took part in a free Taglit-Birthright Israel tour of the Holy Land for people with special needs and provided by Mayanot.

Jesse Frankel, 21, recently returned from a trip he didn’t want to end. A participant in a Taglit-Birthright Israel project made possible as part of a partnership between trip provider Mayanot and the Friendship Circle – an international network of Chabad-Lubavitch programs that work with children and young adults with special needs – he spent 10 days touring the Holy Land with his peers.

Letter: A Child Needs Your Prayers

Photo: Jews for Judaism.

A young yeshiva boy of 15 by the name of Shneur Chaim Yitzchak Alexander ben Nechama Dina is right now in critical condition with a bacterial infection that is ravaging his body. He needs the heartfelt Tefilos of every child in Klal Yisrael!