Hi, my name is Mendel. I am 6 feet tall, slim, and dress in style. I went through the system and almost have Smicha. I am not a Shlichus Bocher, but I work hard and can already support Shluchim. Do you want me as your son in law?
The Chabad Consortium of schools, created by the Merkos Chinuch Office to maximize the benefit of Federal educational funding programs at Chabad schools, conducted a series of meetings in Washington DC, on Wednesday and Thursday Jan 25th and 26th. The group was led by Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, director of the Merkos education department and Bryan Kaplan (no relation), a Los Angeles school advocate, who is director and power engine of the Consortium.
It’s pay to pray at one Brooklyn synagogue. Down-on-their luck panhandlers at the Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in Crown Heights have to follow the 11th Commandment: Fork over $5 for the right to beg inside.
Mendy and Rochel Leah (nee Gudelsky) Wilansky (Montreal, Canada)
It’s not every day that a child gets to serve as a colonel in the army. Then again, not every child is entrusted with any kind of mission. But for Chaya Mushka Lowenthal, along with hundreds of Yaldei Hashluchim and many thousands of Lubavitch children around the world, all this talk of missions and ranks is more than just child’s play.
Levi and Nechama Dina (nee Zirkind) Milecki (Sydney, Australia)
Rabbi Noach Bernstein of Crown Heights is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Miriam OBM, at 1470 E. 22nd St [between Aves. N and O] in Flatbush.
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
A few days ago, an article by the Algemeiner’s Dovid Efune was published on crownheights.info, advocating for Shluchim to arm themselves with firearms. The article intimated that perhaps the tragedy that took place in Mumbai in 2008, where Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg HYD were murdered, may have been averted. The author points to recent threats discovered against Chabad Houses in Thailand and Azerbaijan, and to the fact that the previous Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneersohn, carried a revolver.
In what appears to be a frightening trend, authorities in Argentina captured an Iranian-Hezbollah terror cell which was, according to Debkafile, planning an attack on a Chabad center there. If confirmed, this is the third time this month that an Iranian linked attack on a Chabad House was foiled. The other two plots were against Chabad Houses in Thailand and Azerbaijan.
Rabbi Bentzion Chanowitz relates: At around 4:00 PM on Tuesday the 24th of January, we were informed that our missing Sefer Torah had been recovered. We immediately drove to the Monticello Police Department. The Torah was in a large plastic bag stored in a larger box.
Naftali Zakon (Crown Heights) and Mussy Krazniansky (Manhattan)
L’chaim will be Sunday, at Chabad of the Upper East Side
419 E. 77th St. [between York and 1st Ave.]
Levi Yitzchak and Rivka (nee Reinitz) Spielman
1276 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Eli and Roche’le Raskin
615 Lefferts Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shlomo and Chana Rivka (nee Meyers) Simons
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Levi and Rochel Leah Greisman
701 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. “I’ve been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. ”This is the one single greatest advancement of the Rebbe’s family purity campaign ever.”
St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was abandoned in 1781. That all changed about 3 years ago, when Chabad arrived in town.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute, will lead a discussion on the topic, The Courage to Challenge Hashem: Three Conversations that define a Jewish leader.
One of the interesting byproducts of our paradoxical times is the birth of sensationalism.
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