Russian Jews have decided to modify a popular quotation. “Earlier, Jews had to come to the synagogue, but now, synagogue will come to Jews,” they affirm.
I was watching online the dedication of the new Chabad center in Kiryat Arbah named for the daughter of the shluchim there, Chaya Mushka Attiah, a”h. Besides shedding quite a few tears as I watched Chaya Mushka’s father dance with the sefer Torah and as I heard his voice break as he spoke a few words, suddenly a thought came to my mind: If a little girl could give up her life for the inyan of tznius, how much more so must we all make a huge effort to increase in tznius within ourselves, our children, our communities.
Two wispy-bearded, tall, thin young men wearing long black coats and wide-brimmed hats walked the sidewalk in front of Chronic Tacos in downtown Chico, California on Friday, Aug. 3.
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We are pleased to present the final Installment – number 39 – of Memoirs by Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, wife of Reb Levik and mother of the Rebbe. The memoirs were penned by the Rebbetzin between her arrival in the United States in 1948 and 1963.
Mitt Romney, after picking Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan as his running mate Saturday, charges into the final pre-convention stretch giving voters a much sharper picture of where his campaign stands as he hits the reset button on the race.
Residents of Chevron’s Kiryat Arba neighborhood rejoice over the new Chabad House, Sefer Torah and young pair of Shluchim – all there to serve the tight-knit Jewish community and Israeli soldiers.
Is Chassidism merely a “companion” to Judaism? Or did it change the core of Judaism in any way? The Avner Institute presents an insightful letter from the Rebbe, in which he stresses the role of Chassidic thought – not as auxillary intellectual exercise or practice, but as a catalyst in Torah life.
Shimy and Devorah Leah (nee Rodal) Heidingsfeld (Moorpark, CA)
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Puerto Rican boxing champion Miguel Cotto paid a visit to Chabad of Puerto Rico in San Juan recently, according to a post on the center’s Facebook page. Cotto is known to some in the Jewish community as the fighter that stole the crown from Hasidic boxing Champion Yuri Foreman in an epic Yankee Stadium bout on June 5th, 2010.
Authorities arrested a man they said stole a $450 silver crown from a Hollywood synagogue and then sold it for profit in North Miami.
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Considering sending your child to yeshiva? Think again. Or rather, don’t send them. So I learned from my grandfather, the esteemed Lubavitcher chosid, Rabbi Shlomo Aron Kazarnovsky. He planted this seed in my head over 30 years ago, on a walk down Nashville’s stately West End Avenue going home from my father’s shul to my parent’s home at the corner of Whitland and Leonard.
Two Hatzolah EMS volunteers responded to a call for an individual who was in diabetic shock near Woodridge’s Village Hall Wednesday night, when they were ticketed by ‘Police Chief’ (the town has only two police officers) John Calvello for “unlawful use of red lights.”
Moshe and Zeesy (nee Klein) Grossbaum
1582 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Zalman Shimon and Chaya Mushka (nee Hecht) Wolf
35 Balfour Place
Yossi and Chani Okunov
656 Crown St. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Ephraim and Devora (nee Katz) Piekarski
Kozy Acres, Monticello, NY Unit #29
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Lubavitcher Bochur Yosef Abrahamson has been selected to receive the very competitive and prestigious honor to serve as a Page for the Republican National Convention, where Mitt Romney will be officially nominated to run for president. The convention will take place at the end of August in Tampa Bay, Florida.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique collection of photos of farbrengens with the Rebbe in the mid 1970s.
While many other parts of the continent continue to institute restrictions and bans on the practice, the Bochurim in Yeshiva Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France learned the ancient Jewish laws of compassionate slaughter – Shchita.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Kopel will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘is Judaism a religion?’
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