Chabad Hosts Netanyahu’s Entourage for Shabbos

by Herb Keinon – Jerusalem Post

File Photo: Rabbi Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky, director of the Chabad Student Network of Ottawa, Canada, dances with a local student at a Bar Mitzvah celebration.

“Our Father Who art in Heaven, Protector and Redeemer of Israel, bless Thou the State of Israel which marks the dawn of our deliverance,” the prayer leader, a pro-Israel lobbyist on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, recited in Hebrew Saturday morning in the Marriott Hotel’s Orchard Room, which was temporarily turned into a synagogue.

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Karliner Rebbe Visits Chabad Shul in Azerbaijan

The Rebbe of Karlin-Stolin, Rabbi Boruch Shochet, visited the Lubavitch Shul in Baku, Azerbaijan last night. The Shul, led by Rabbi Shneor Segal, was recently featured in international news headlines due to a foiled Iranian terror plot against the Shliach and the local institutions. The pictures are unclear and badly focused due to the fact that the Karliner Rebbe goes through much effort to avoid being photographed.

Melbourne Marks 30th Completion of Rambam

This Sunday, hundreds of men and women attended a grand Siyum HaRambam celebration in Melbourne, Australia, at Yeshivah Centre’s Werdiger Hall. The event marked the completion of the 30th cycle of three daily chapters of Rambam, and the 10th cycle of one daily chapter of Rambam.

Lessons in Education: Parents’ Responsibility

In the second segment of this series, Rabbi Nochum Kaplan discusses the first “mentch” lesson our children need to internalize; that they matter, what they do matters and how they do it matters and is important, even to the Al-mighty himself. That’s why they need to learn to carefully consider what they do and to learn to make responsible choices.

Op-Ed: America’s Fascination with Chassidic Women

Pearl Reich on the Dr. Phil program

I was invited to attend the Dr. Phil show last week to offer commentary on their feature story about a young and beautiful woman who had a tale of unsettling circumstances in regard to her Chassidic background. As the Dr. Phil show unfolded, I listened intently to a young woman named Pearl Reich who, at the age of seventeen, was betrothed to a man for whom she was clearly unsuited, at her parents’ discretion and against her will.

Torah in 10: What is the Meaning of Kaddish?

CrownHeights.info and Kol Menachem are happy to present the third class in a new “Torah in Ten” series titled “The Journey of Shabbos”.

These classes are based on the new “Lifestyle” Friday Night Prayer Companion that was released last month. In this class, Rabbi Chaim Miller discusses why we say the Kaddish prayer in a foreign language. Also, what is the mystical meaning of Kabbalat Shabbat?

Five NYC Hospitals Rated Worst in the Country

A bombshell new survey has found that five metropolitan-area hospitals are among the most dangerous in the nation. Of the 1,045 hospitals surveyed nationwide, Jacobi Medical Center in the Bronx was listed as the worst when it came to patient safety.