This past Motzei Shabbos, parshas Toldos, some 70 men and women, members of the Besht Center and the greater Crown Heights community, came to bid farewell to Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson, rabbi of the Besht. The Kalmensons will be moving to Central London to open a new Chabad house.
Shmulik Abend (North Hollywood, CA) and Blumie (Bas R’ Shaya) Raskin (London, UK)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chezky and Bassie (nee Plotkin) Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
Toward the end of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, while all the Shluchim were still gathered in New York at the great Kinus banquet, the Yeshiva Gedolah of Greater Miami began its festive meal in honor of this special day.
When Rabbi Henry Sousson went through training at Fort Jackson in 2002, area Jewish options were limited, and being able to participate in Jewish holiday celebrations was tough. Nearly 10 years later, the instructor at the Columbia, S.C., installation’s chaplain school is proud of the Chabad-Lubavitch run Aleph House, which gives civilians and soldiers a Jewish base while they’re away from home.
Over the course of the International Conference of Shluchim this year, the bochurim of Chovevei Torah were privileged to hear from several shluchim who took time out of their busy schedules to share some of their inspiration. They spoke about and told stories of their shlichus and encouraged the bochurim to increase their learning.
Rabbi Sholom Ber Goldshmid, the last remaining member of the of the Chabad community to survive the Hebron Massacre of 1929, passed away November 10. He was 86 years old.
Monday morning, Beis Kislev, students of Oholei Torah marked the Shloshim of Reb Moshe HaKohen Ablesky OBM, with Siyumei Mishnayos and a Hascholas Sefer Torah, together with a rally with of Torah, Tefilla and Tzedokah.
Menachem and Rena (nee Berkowitz) Traxler (Tzfat, Israel)
I am a victim of abuse. Well actually, I’m a survivor. I no longer consider myself a victim, as I am slowly breaking out of that lowly hell, and moving forward to a better place in life. I came forward a little while ago about the abuse I went through, and doing so was one of the biggest and most painful decisions I had made in my life. It was like pulling off the scab off an old wound that never healed properly.
We thought we might share with our readers the following humorous comment, which was posted under the VosIzNeias article about the annual Kinus Hashluchim Banquet.
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