The Rebbe often stressed the importance of helping Released Time in honor of Yud Shevat. Please enjoy this video of the Rebbe and the Released Time children during Sukkos 5737 – 1976.
Driving from the school run yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing my six-year-old brother’s full run-down of the latest school news: which teacher he likes and which he isn’t so keen on etc. Despite being 16 years his senior, it’s almost enjoyable to hear it, not least as it reminds me of myself at that age. But in the middle of it all, he mentioned something that made me think.
“How do you tell people about the importance of a mikvah and then tell them they have to drive 250 miles to get there?”
This picture, which I recently found, reminded me of a Yechidus that my father, Reb Avrohom Dovid Tennenhaus OBM, had with the Rebbe the night of Yud Shvat, 5711 – the evening before the Rebbe officially assumed leadership.
Beis Chana Tzfat invites all its alumnae from the past 36 years to participate in their live streaming broadcast in honor of Yud Shvat.
Pablo K. of Montevideo, Uruguay likes to learn. One evening, he attended a class that looked at a chapter from the Mishneh Torah, Maimonides’ massive compilation of Jewish law, without ever leaving his house. As a participant in a new Spanish-language online venture, the businessman can fit the demands of a yeshiva into an already-hectic schedule.
On Monday, the family of Rabbi Shmuel Gurewitz, OBM, of Shikun Chabad, Lod, commemorated his first yohrtzeit with a Siyum and Hachnosas Sefer Torah, dedicated in his, as well as his wife Esther‘s, memory.
With less than a minute to play in the biggest football game of his life, Jewish punter Josh Miller wanted a sandwich.
Tzivi Heber, Hadas Orlev and their friends aren’t just playing with Lego building blocks after school. They’re doing it in the name of science.
Not since Melanie Griffith donned a sheitel to play an undercover cop in the 1992 film “A Stranger Among Us,” has an A-list celebrity (not counting Matisyahu) brought an entourage film crew into chasidic Brooklyn.
On January 16th over 160 teachers and educators from over 20 Chabad schools around the New York area – some as far as New Haven and Philadelphia – joined together to learn and network at a joint Inservice Day, organized by Devora Krasnianski of the Chabad Early Childhood Education (CECE) Network, a project of The Shluchim Office. Mrs. Shternie Raskin and Mrs. Chanie Rogatsky of Kiddie Korner, the Chabad preschool in Brooklyn Heights, hosted the event.
Kollel Menachem of Melbourne, Australia recently hosted a training seminar for local Shluchim. Guest speaker Rabbi Ari Shishler of South Africa presented on the topic of Strategies for Effective Adult Education. Rabbi Shishler shared his insights and experience as a popular speaker and as Director of Adult Education at the central Chabad House of Johannesburg.
In this 17th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how an young NKVD officer from Dnepropetrovsk illegaly sent them a food package which likely saved their lives.
A group of Rabbonim in Israel, including Rabbis Yaroslavsky and Ashkenazi, recently released a letter stating that videos of the Rebbe are so important that you can even use maaser money to buy them.
Crown Heights [CHI] — A fire broke out this afternoon in a Jewish home on Montgomery Street. Firefighters responded within minutes, and had the fire under control soon thereafter. Thank G-d the family managed to escape safely and no one was hurt.
While the Rebbe’s sensitivity to every Jew is well-known, recordings of direct interactions between the Rebbe and individuals with special needs, or their parents, are quite rare.
In my last blog post, I wrote about the genesis of my book, “Among Righteous Men,” and the emotional connection I often felt to Crown Heights, the Brooklyn neighborhood where the book is set.
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