As the 200th yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe approaches (24 Teves), the program to distribute his Shulchan Aruch HaRav continues. Thousands of sets of the Shulchan Aruch have been handed out in recent weeks in yeshivos and kollelim around Eretz Yisrael as well as to organized study groups of his works.
A blood drive will take place Thursday, November 29 (15 Kislev) from 3:00pm to 8:30pm at Ahavas Chesed, 271 Kingston Ave. [between Lincoln and St. Johns Place]. Refreshments will be served. Please bring identification.
Warning: One must wait 56 days between blood donations.
For the first time police officials can remember, New York City went through an entire day with no one shot, stabbed or slashed.
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At the start of their careers, young Chabad rabbis and their wives typically set out for a wilderness to be tamed: a Jewish area lacking a Chabad presence. There they drive in their stakes and go to work. As they push back the frontier, other, younger couples arrive to continue the expansion. That’s what Chabad emissaries, or shlichim, do.
Split the pot? Crack the safe! At this years Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society’s annual Miracles auction. Last years ‘split the pot’ reached $328,028 and this years is projected to reach a half-a-million! The auction takes place December 6th and an entertaining show will be brodcasted live. Buy tickets here!
Northwestern students and alumni are voicing their concerns about the University’s decision to disaffiliate with Tannenbaum Chabad House and Rabbi Dov Hillel Klein in a petition distributed to trustees and administrators.
IYH this Thursday, the 15th of Kislev – November 29th – there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
An IDF soldier was killed and 15 other people were injured, one seriously, in a road accident between an Egged bus and a truck on Route 6 on Wednesday. The critically injured rider is an IDF ‘Lone Soldier’ from a Lubavitch family in Crown Heights.
This morning, CBS Miami reported on “a possible new development” in the case of missing millionaire Guma Aguiar, who disappeared on his boat in June leaving behind a wife, 4 kids and a $100 million dollar fortune. The earth-shattering news – brought to the press’ attention by Guma’s wife, Jaime – was that Guma’s sister moved to the Netherlands.
The Rabbinical Centre of Europe on Wednesday slammed a ruling by the Constitutional Court in Poland that shechita, the Jewish ritual slaughter of animals, was “illegal.”
Ezra and Sara (nee Junik) Hecht (Crown Heights)
One tradition of Judaism gets a fanciful update every year by the Chabad Jewish Center in Needham, Massachusetts, with its Hanukkah menorah-lighting ceremony on the downtown common. Each time, the menorah changes: Last year, it glowed a luminous blue-green, and past versions have been made from Legos, ice, and balloons.
Chabad of S.E. Morris County in Madison, NJ delivered more than 400 Thanksgiving dinners. The meals were delivered by volunteers to homebound seniors in Morris County on Thanksgiving morning.
Levi Yitzchok and Goldie (nee Duchman) Azimov (South Brunswick, NJ)
As a developer, he constructed more than 5,000 acres of residential, commercial and industrial buildings in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. But earlier this month, Larry Robbins was celebrated for his philanthropy.
Hungarian Jews have asked Russia to return scrolls and valuable religious items looted by Nazis and the Red Army in World War Two and their claim has been backed by the Budapest government.
A typewritten letter signed by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina (wife of the Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe) and her two sons-in-law – the Rashag (Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary) and the Ramash (later to become the Seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe) – has gone up for sale at the Virtual Judaica auction site, with an estimated value placed between $3-5,000.
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