Ron Hirsch, the man accused of detonating a pipe bomb last spring at the Chabad House Lubavitch of Santa Monica, is awaiting a psychiatric evaluation that a judge will use to determine whether to force Hirsch to take medication.
Aryeh and Mushka (nee Azimov) Prus (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Lipa Schmeltzer cracks a good-natured joke about what you get when you mix Chabad and Breslov.
The summer season is here in full force. Sunshine, heat, humidity, and power outages don’t always make for an ideal blend. This is the time when tempers flare, and actions boil over towards regrettable.
On the eve of Gimmel Tammuz, JEM released its newest film, Faithful and Fortified (Vol. 3): Israel’s Prime Ministers, exploring the Rebbe’s impact on the personal lives and public policies of seven of Israel’s heads of state. In tribute to former Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, who passed away this past Shabbos at the age of 96, JEM has posted an excerpt from the film exploring his relationship with the Rebbe.
Ches Tammuz was Rabbi Zalman Kazen‘s first Yartzheit. Rabbi Kazen was a most modest, frielicher, and emeser Chosid. He hated publicity and honor, but he certainly deserved it.
As we approach one year since the tragic murder of Leiby Keltzky, Sarah Dukes, a Lubavitcher songwriter and artist from Crown Heights, composed One, a song performed by Yaron Gershovsky, in his loving memory.
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Rabbi Chaim Dalfin interviewed former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Shamir, who passed away yesterday, about his connection with the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The interview is printed in his book Conversations with the Rebbe.
Tommer and Rochel (nee Wiener) Weingarten (Crown Heights)
Yossi and Dina Ezagui (Crown Heights)
Former US Secretary of State Colin Powell gave a posthumous award for ‘constructive dissent’ to Hiram (or Harry) Bingham IV. For over fifty years, the State Department resisted any attempt to honor Bingham. For them he was an insubordinate member of the US diplomatic service, a dangerous maverick who was eventually demoted. Now, after his death, he has been officially recognized as a hero.
Rabbi Menachem Matusof was in for a big surprise recently. A big bash was held in his honour in Calgary to celebrate his 50th birthday.
Chabad’s Our Big Kitchen in Sydney was honored with a visit by the Dushinsky Rebbe from Jerusalem, who travelled to Australia to be mechazek the Kehilos of Sydney and Melbourne.
Danny Bendelman (Toronto, Canada) and Shoshana Goldlioust (Toronto, Canada)
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A third Lubavitch school in the United Kingdom has succeeded in securing voluntary-aided status, allowing most of its tuition costs to be met by the state.
Avrumi and Rochel Steinmetz
1690 Union St. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.] Apt. 4A
Sholom and Chaya (nee Altein) Kramer
620 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Lipa and Alexsandra (nee Diament) Lieberman
866 Eastern Parkway [corner Albany Ave.] Apt. 6D
Aryeh and Rochel (nee Novoseletsky) Hoffman
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