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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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.
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.
Chaim and Dina Seewald (Crown Heights)
The Brooklyn district attorney, facing a wave of public criticism about his handling of abuse allegations in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community, on Thursday charged four men with attempting to silence an accuser by offering her and her boyfriend a $500,000 bribe, and threatening her boyfriend’s business.
The students of Yeshivas Lubavitch of Manchester, UK do Mivtzoim, reach out to Jews of all backgrounds and inspire hundreds, following the vision of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
This Sunday, 4th of Tammuz, at 4:00pm, family and friends will join together at Shain’s Shul (390 Kingston Ave.) to begin a Sefer Torah in honor and memory of Mrs. Itta Feiga Spitezki, OBM, in conjunction with her tenth yahrtzeit. Mrs. Spitezki was a longtime Shlucha of the Rebbe in Brussels, Belgium.
Avraham Yosef and Simcha (nee Korchowsky) Baez
701 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] Apt. 6F
Moshe and Mushka Rubin
821 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Dov Tzvi and Orly Barnett
845 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Levi and Chayala Wilhelm
25 Balfour Pl. [between Empire Blvd. and Lefferts Ave.]
Sholomke and Mushka (nee Greenberg) Nagar
The Schapiro families will be completing the writing of a Sefer Torah in memory of their distinguished parents, Rabbi Lipa and Mrs. Chana Schapiro, and their beloved brother Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, OBM.
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Rabbi Y. Y. Yeruslavsky, chief Rabbi of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, on his way to spend Shabbos at the Ohel, davened Shachris at Beis Eliezer Yitzchok in Crown Heights this morning. The Shul’s rov, Rabbi D. Y. Levi, honored Rabbi Yeruslavsky with the opportunity to deliver the daily shiur on Shulchan Aruch after davening.
Anash of Los Angeles gathered at Cheder Menachem, the Chabad Elementary boys’ school, for their 8th annual Chayolei Tzivos Hashem Grand Expo.
This Shabbos at the Besht, in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, several lecturers will lead discussions on a variety of topics. On Friday evening Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman, Rabbi of the Besht, will deliver a special lecture. Rabbi Chaim Shuchat will lecture at 9:00am Shabbos morning, as well as at 8:00pm following mincha. Guest speaker Rabbi Mendel Lipskier, Shliach in Sherman Oaks, CA, will lead a large farbrengen on Shabbos afternoon after Shachris.
The first few hundred copies of a fascinating new biography of the Tzemach Tzedek, written by Rabbi Sholom D. Avtzon, have arrived in Crown Heights bookstores today.
This Shabbos, in honor of GImmel Tammuz, many Shuls in Crown Heights will be hosting a Farbrengen with a special guest who will give words of inspiration. Following is a list of 40 Crown Heights Shuls that will be hosting such an event on Shabbos afternoon.
After sponsoring the recent Siyum Hashas at Chovevei Torah, prominent Crown Heights attorney Rabbi Shimon Aharon Rosenfeld has once again rewarded excellent learning in the Chovevei Torah Zal. While most bochurim in the yeshiva have completed and mastered the entire Mesichta Kiddushin, Mendy Ross, Shaya Spielman and Shaya Zirkind were selected to be put through a complete and thorough testing of the entire 82 blatt meshichta memorized and all at one time.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Shlomo Bogart (Sharon, MA) and Chana Rosa Petrikovsky (Great Neck, NY), which took place at Eshel in Crown Heights.
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