Wednesday was another eventful day at the RNC, and the lineup of speakers was nearly mind numbing.
A shipment of a brand new reprint of all the Alter Rebbe’s Maamarim, In honor of the 200th anniversary of the Alter Rebbe’s passing, is packed and loaded onto a container in Israel.
“Your newspaper recently began to include chasidic teachings. If you are now providing the laymen with regular doses of chasidus, perhaps it’s also time to provide the yeshivah students with regular study sessions in chasidus. Many important innovations have been introduced in our generation, for when new ‘illnesses’ arise, new ‘medicines’ must be administered.” 4 Adar II, 5741 (1981).
Hundreds of supporters – most of whom were backpackers themselves at one time or another – gathered at the Diamond Theater in Ramat Gan, Israel, to pay tribute to the Kathmandu Chabad House that has provided a home away from home for the thousands of Jewish travelers who annually make their way through the Himalayan Mountains.
Zalman and Chani (nee Klein) Schapiro
1582 Carroll St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Schneur Zalman and Mushkie (nee Bronstein) Borenstein
37 Balfour Place
Nechemia and Rivky Tenenbaum
Rabbi Shain’s Shul, 390 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.]
Zalman and Chani (nee Klein) Schapiro
1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Shloimy and Tzirel (nee Weiss) Baitch
884 East New York Ave. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.]
Levi and Estee (nee Ettelson) Capland
Chevra Ahavas Yisroel, 1349 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
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A Bolivian court denied bail Thursday morning to Jacob Ostreicher, a Borough Park, Brooklyn resident who has been incarcerated without formal charges for more than a year. The bail hearing lasted nine grueling hours and was spread over two days while Jacob’s mother, a Holocaust survivor, sat through the entire process in the Bolivian courtroom along with her daughter, Jacob’s sister, both weeping uncontrollably.
Nechemia and Rivky Tenenbaum (Crown Heights)
This Shabbos at the Besht Rabbi Chaim Miller will lead a discussion on the topic: Mystical insights to make your Rosh Hashanah inspiring.
Lubavitch of Scotland has launched an ad trailer for the coming month to remind people about the upcoming Yommim Tovim and of the activities of Lubavitch. They have also mounted two very large banners at busy intersections in the community, wishing people a shona tova and giving the dates of the Yomimim Tovim.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique photo of the Rebbe entering 770 to Daven Mincha in the winter of 1986.
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The highly acclaimed Jewish study program for women does it again! After ranking second in the top nonprofits empowering women by GreatNonprofits and GuideStar in 2010, it now ranked among the top 10 NYC non-profit volunteering opportunities.
In an interview with Tablet Magazine, Joshua Bolten, 58, the second Jewish chief of staff in the history of the White House, offers a rare glimpse into the presidency of George W. Bush.
An Israeli military court in Jaffa has extended the incarceration of Devorah Leah C., a Lubavitcher newlywed who was detained while trying to verify her draft exemptions en route to Crown Heights for Tishrei, by 24 days.
The Algemeiner Editor’s Club hosted famed CBS journalist Jere Van Dyk at its first annual Summer Party. Van Dyk, who was captured by the Taliban near the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan for 45 days in 2008, spoke of his experiences and the life lessons that he has gleaned from them.
Rabbi Manis Barash and son Mendy do Mivtzoim on the streets of Prague. The famed 13th century Alt-Noy Shul, where the Maharal prayed, is seen in the background.
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Sometimes, Benjamin Rosenthal thinks about leaving the small town of Indianola, Mississippi, population 11,000, where he spent most of his life.
It was thirty years since they stepped foot in the Yeshiva of Petropolis, Brazil that had created their Jewish base for so many years to come. During that period so much had changed in their lives, but their love for the yeshiva continues until this very day.
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