Picture of the Day: Ad on Europe’s Largest Billboard
Rabbi Menachem Evers, Shliach to Amsterdam, Netherlands, put up an ad for his Chanukah event on the largest billboard in Western Europe, located in Rembrandt Square.
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Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society is a widespread organization that provides financial and moral support as well as access to premium care for people who have been afflicted by Yenem Machleh, lo olainu. In order to support this great organization the Crown Heights chapter is hosting a preview auction tonight at Beis Levi Yitzchok.
TONIGHT: RCCS Preview Auction in Crown Heights!
Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society is a widespread organization that provides financial and moral support as well as access to premium care for people who have been afflicted by Yenem Machleh, lo olainu. In order to support this great organization the Crown Heights chapter is hosting a preview auction tonight at Beis Levi Yitzchok.
Triplets! Two Boys and One Girl!
Yossi and Sarale (nee Estulin) Mintz (Manhattan Beach, CA)
Head of Reform Movement to Write About Chabad
JTA
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
Volunteers with Yad B’Yad unload blankets for distribution.
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
Denver Post
Jewish locals celebrate Chanukah at the Chabad Menorah lighting in Evergreen, CO.
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
by Yechezkel Gordon
Michael Savage
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)
Left: Yehudis Loschak from California as the Kallah. Right: Chaya Mushka Laufer from Rhode Island as a townsperson.
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
Left: Yehudis Loschak from California as the Kallah. Right: Chaya Mushka Laufer from Rhode Island as a townsperson.
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
by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach
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.
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