With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Yaacov Shlomo Matisyahu Pelin, at the young age of 32. He is survived by his mother, Chaya, and his brothers, Levi and Mendy. The funeral, burial and Shiva will take place in Jerusalem.
In honor of the 22nd Yahrtzeit of Rabbi J. J. Hecht, OBM, we present this vintage collection of photos of him directing a rally of summer camp children in front of the Rebbe in August of 1979. Photos from the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov.
Lecha Anu Shirah – A beautiful new musical composition by Choni Grunblatt.
Didi Reichner (Jerusalem, Israel) and Rachel Feld (Berkeley, CA)
A massive sinkhole opened up in Brooklyn on Wednesday, nearly swallowing a parked car and causing a giant headache for city workers, who plan to work through the weekend to repair it.
Eliezer Shaw (London, UK) and Chaya Wolfe (Phoenix, AZ)
In the shadow of a skyline dominated by the General Motors Renaissance Center across the narrow Detroit River, the small, public University of Windsor draws close to 15,000 students from locations throughout Canada to the quiet and unassuming city of Windsor. Located on the border, it occupies a swath of Ontario locals point out is the only part of Canada that lies south of the United States and was once a source of prohibition-busting smugglers and black market liquor.
CGI Bat-Mitzvah Experience (B-ME) campers spent a whirlwind weekend in the Chabad enclave of Crown Heights in Brooklyn, NY where they toured a slew of local attractions and significant locations including the Rebbe’s home, office and shul.
Tire thieves strike again – five days later. An SUV parked on Lefferts Avenue was the latest victim of the tire thieves. Once again, all four tires and rims were removed and the vehicle was left on two cinder-blocks.
Yanky and Ahuva (nee Rivkin) Borenstein (Crown Heights)
Mayor Mike Bloomberg is famous for attempting to curb the city’s smoking, soda, and greasy food habits with legislation, but New Yorkers are now wondering whether Bloomberg has set his next target on a different vice: alcohol.
Campers enjoy their Fifth week at Lubavitch Day Camp in Monsey, NY.
An exquisitely detailed exhibition, depicting various Jewish holidays in both different times and places, has been drawing large crowds in Borough Park since its arrival from Israel three weeks ago.
Binyomin Lieblich (Crown Heights) and Zahava Shagalov (California / Crown Heights)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
On Yud Tes Kislev, 5743 — 1982, the Rebbe conducted his umpteenth Siyum Hashas. An excerpt.
Famed Chazzan Bentzion Miller and family sing the Alter Rebbe’s Avinu Malkeinu at a Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow, Poland.
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has been assailed for saying at a fundraiser in Jerusalem that “culture” plays a large part in Israel’s superior “economic vitality” over the Palestinians, just as it does “between other countries that are near or next to each other. Chile and Ecuador, Mexico and the United States.” For this commonsensical statement of the obvious, he has been pilloried, not least by the Palestinian Authority’s Saeb Erekat, who described his remarks as “racist.”
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