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Brilliance and Reflection

by Benzion Rader – Avner Institute

The author with Israeli President Shazar.

This Shabbos, 3 Tammuz (June 23), marks eighteen years since the Rebbe’s histalkus. We present here an inspiring article written specially for the Avner Institute by an individual who merited a special relationship with the Rebbe — Benzion Rader, who is the author of Challenge, an inside account of Chabad of Great Britain and the Holy Land, which was published in the early 1970s under the Rebbe’s guidance.

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New Engagement!

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Photos: Preparations in Full Swing at the Ohel

As thousands of Jews from all walks of life prepare to visit the Rebbe’s resting place in Cambria Heights, Queens for his Yom Hilula this weekend, the administrators of the Ohel and its adjacent Chabad House, under the directorship of Rabbi Abba Refson, are in full gear preparing to accommodate the multitude of visitors, and make their time spent there as comfortable as possible.

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Tonight: A Taste of the Rebbe’s Torah

Tonight, Thursday at the Beis Eliezer Yitzchok Shul, located at 394 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.], renowned lecturer Rabbi Y. Y. Jacobson will present a powerful lecture on the Rebbe’s Torah in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, from 8:30 to 10:30 sharp. A second Shiur on the same topic will take place the following Sunday morning at 10:00am.

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The Blaze

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New York City May Introduce Speed Cameras

The Blaze

It’s no secret that automatic cameras snapping the license plate numbers of red-light-runners and stop-sign-coasters generates revenue for cities — especially since they’re constantly on and a uniformed officer is not actively monitoring and getting paid to catch the would-be traffic offenders.

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Weekly Herald

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Weekly Herald

A new rabbi with Chabad of Snohomish County in Edmonds, Berel Paltiel, has settled into a new life with his wife Goldie and their two children, Risha (left), 4 months, and Chaya, 17 months, at their home in Edmonds, Washington.

Rabbi Berel Paltiel‘s older brothers had to pose as American tourists to transport banned religious books to Jewish congregations in Soviet Russia. All Berel had to do to transport his religious books to his new congregation was ship them from Brooklyn to Edmonds, Washington. But in every other way, he is continuing his family’s legacy.

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Courier-Journal

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Courier-Journal

The Rabbi Avrohom Litvin conducts the first of a monthly Friday Night Live Sabbath celebration at the Congregation Anshei Sfard on Dutchmans Lane.

Worshippers prayed, swayed, chanted and closed their eyes in earnest spiritual concentration. In a new series of once-a-month services at Congregation Anshei Sfard, worshippers are putting a modern name on a centuries-old practice.

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