Triplets! Two Boys and One Girl!
Yossi and Sarale (nee Estulin) Mintz (Manhattan Beach, CA)
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Head of Reform Movement to Write About Chabad
At the end of this year, Union for Reform Judaism President Eric Yoffie will be stepping down after 16 years at the movement’s helm. Asked what he plans on doing after he retires, he responded thusly:
Mashpia on Confronting Dangerous Internet Addictions
This past Shabbos, the North Miami Beach community and Yeshiva Torah Ohr were graced with a visit from Rabbi Shlomo Sternberg, Mashpia in Oholei Torah.
Baby Boy!
Hirshy and Rashi Minkowicz (Alpharetta, GA)
Warm Quilts Help Needy Israelis Fight Winter Cold
Despite a year of decreasing donations to social welfare organizations across Israel, needy children will not be going to be bed cold this winter thanks to several charities, including the Yad B’Yad organization run by Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman.
Chassidim Farbreng Together in Stamford Hill, London
Once again, the Chassidic community of Stamford Hill joined with Anash for a fabrengen/melave malka. This annual event was hosted by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Liberow, director of the Ohr Hatorah Chassidus Library.
Evergreen, CO: Chabad Menorah No Longer Welcome
A recent decision banning a menorah display at a key Evergreen community building has sparked a debate over holiday decorations in the small mountain district.
Michael Savage Slams Chabad Rabbis for Attending Obama’s Chanukah Party
Michael Savage, a conservative talk radio host, had some harsh words for the orthodox Jewish Rabbis that attended the annual Chanukah party at the White House last week together with President Obama.
Baby Girl!
Schneur and Chaya (nee Ceitlin) Yecheilov (Crown Heights)
In honor of Yud Daled Kislev, the Shluchim Online School celebrated the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding together, from countries around the world. The students focused on the special bond created by the Rebbe and his Chassidim on this special day.
Celebrating Together from Miles Apart
In honor of Yud Daled Kislev, the Shluchim Online School celebrated the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding together, from countries around the world. The students focused on the special bond created by the Rebbe and his Chassidim on this special day.
The Rebellious Man of Faith
The patriarch Jacob, my namesake (Jacob Shmuel) of whom we have read the past few weeks in the Bible, is the most maligned of all the patriarchs. He is the one whom non-Jews can do without. The Christians claim to have been grafted onto the seed of Abraham and the Muslims make equal claim to the father of Monotheism as the Jews. But Jacob, with his seeming deception of his blind father to gain the firstborn blessing from Esau and his commercial manipulations of his father-in-law Laban, most of whose flock he eventually owned, is treated by anti-Semites as the prototype of the wily, cunning, dishonest Jew who will do anything to profit.
PSA: Ahavas Chesed’s Chanukah Toy Drive
For children whose parents are struggling financially they may not be getting any Chanukah gifts or gelt. Once Ahavas Chesed has launched their annual Chanukah Toy Drive to help mitigate this uncertainty and with your help no child will have a sad Chanukah.
D.A. Investigation Leads to 85 Child Abuse Arrests
Earlier this summer, the Hasidic community in Borough Park was ripped asunder by one of the most gruesome murders imaginable — a young Jewish boy smothered and disemboweled. The murderer may have been a troubled outcast, but he was still one of their own — a chilling reality check. Now, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office has revealed the results of a three-year investigation into child abuse in the borough’s Orthodox Jewish community that is downright seismic: 85 predators arrested and 117 victims identified, according to the Post.
Shmuli Brown Explains Shlichus Work on BBC
Rabbi Shmuli Brown was initially reticent when he was contacted by the BBC to make a programme about his work as chaplain for Chabad of Liverpool Universities.
