New Engagement!
Yisroel Noach Rabiski (Toronto, Canada) and Aidela Moskowitz (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
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Mystical City’s Newest Yeshiva Adds Creative Touch
Every Friday, Chabad-Lubavitch yeshiva students across the globe head out of their study halls and take to the streets for pre-Sabbath interactions with locals: On the lookout for Jewish passersby, tourists and shopkeepers, they help men don the prayer boxes known as tefillin, hand out Sabbath candles to women, and answer questions about Judaism to anyone who asks.
New Engagement!
Shimmy Gerlitzky (Crown Heights) and Itty Fellig (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Sunday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St. [between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Bill Passed to Make Kindergarten Mandatory in NYC
Kindergarten would become mandatory for all 5-year-olds in New York City under a bill passed this week by state lawmakers.
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Op-Ed: Preventing Child Abuse at Summer Camp
In the next few days, our children will pack up their clothes, bedding and favorite pillows and head off to summer camp. Most will return home with wonderful memories of new friends and fun filled days. Some will return home with devastating memories that will last a lifetime – memories of being abused.
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Shluchim Meet with Washington D.C. Officials
Congressional leaders and top Obama administration officials met with representatives of Chabad-Lubavitch, lead by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov.
Muslim Brotherhood Wins Egyptian Presidency
Mohamed Morsi, a member of the Muslim Brotherhood – of which Hamas is an offshoot, was declared the new president of Egypt on Sunday, following the first democratic election in Egypt’s history.
Elie Wiesel, one of the most passionate Jewish voices of our time, enjoyed an enduring correspondence and personal relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An avid student, a sought after teacher, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel is the author of numerous related books, among them the bestselling Night, the first in a trilogy about his life in the concentration camps. Recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Wiesel, a professor at Boston University, spoke with Baila Olidort.
In Conversation with Nobel Prize Winner Elie Wiesel
Elie Wiesel, one of the most passionate Jewish voices of our time, enjoyed an enduring correspondence and personal relationship with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. An avid student, a sought after teacher, survivor of Auschwitz and Buchenwald, Wiesel is the author of numerous related books, among them the bestselling Night, the first in a trilogy about his life in the concentration camps. Recipient of many literary awards and honorary degrees, Mr. Wiesel, a professor at Boston University, spoke with Baila Olidort.
91-Year-Old Puts on Teffilin for First Time
Junior Shluchim Shaina and Dovid Gutnick went along with their father to give out Shabbos candles and put on teffilin with other Jews in honor of Gimmel Tammuz in Boca Raton, FL. One man they met was 91 years old, and had never put on teffilin before, so they celebrated his Bar-Mitzvah right in the middle of Costco!
From the day he first met the Rebbe in 1959, Reb Zalmon Jaffe, OBM, dedicated his life to use every opportunity to make the Rebbe happy and to serve as the Rebbe’s Public-Relations man in England.
Personal Correspondence Between the Rebbe and Reb Zalmon Jaffe Published Online
From the day he first met the Rebbe in 1959, Reb Zalmon Jaffe, OBM, dedicated his life to use every opportunity to make the Rebbe happy and to serve as the Rebbe’s Public-Relations man in England.
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Video: When the Rebbe Diffused My Tantrum
Rabbi Yizchok Schochet of London’s Mill Hill Synagogue talks about the weekly custom of his father, Rabbi Jacob Immanuel Schochet, to place his hands upon his head and bless him, and why this caused him to throw a tantrum in the Rebbe’s room as a little boy.
Two Chabad rabbis encountered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and asked him to “protect Jewish people living in Turkey,” according to Turkish state-run news agency Anatolia.
Turkish Prime Minister: Jews Safe in My Country
Two Chabad rabbis encountered Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at the Rio+20 UN Conference on Sustainable Development, and asked him to “protect Jewish people living in Turkey,” according to Turkish state-run news agency Anatolia.
In addition to each individual's personal Pan that they would write and read at the graveside of our Rebbe, it is a custom, practiced for many years, for everyone to get together and write a ‘general’ Pan, signed by all participating Chassidim. The Pan was read at the Rebbe's Tziyun by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov with tears and a cracked voice.
Photos: Pan Kloli Read at the Ohel
In addition to each individual’s personal Pan that they would write and read at the graveside of our Rebbe, it is a custom, practiced for many years, for everyone to get together and write a ‘general’ Pan, signed by all participating Chassidim. The Pan was read at the Rebbe’s Tziyun by Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov with tears and a cracked voice.
