Is there anything people won’t do for a Shidduch? Merav Yitzhaki, 25, had bariatric surgery, gave up on snacks and pastries and lost more than half her weight. Now she awaits her suitor. A Lubvitcher girl speaks openly about her obesity and her struggles.
It was bound to surface sooner or later: Shluchim Rabbi Eliahu and Chana Kanterman, in Talbieh, Yerushalayim, became friendly with the Shalit family after visiting their protest tent, bringing food for the body and soul and offering support as only the Rebbe’s Shluchim know how.
Sunday evening, Isru Chag Sukkos, Oholei Torah held their annual Tzeischem L’sholom for the 126 Talmidei Hashluchim who will be going to communities around the world.
An interesting video of the Sanz-Klausenburger Rebbe’s Tisch at the end of Yom-Tov, where he carries out the custom of throwing apples to the crowd of gathered chassidim as a symbol of blessing. The Chassidim break out into the joyous [Chabad] niggun of “Vaharikosi Lochem Brocho,” and what appears to be the Klausenburg version of “Yechi Adoneinu.”
With one week left to the wedding of my eldest child, I am looking forward not so much to the occasion as to simply seeing my daughter married to her fiancé. I want to dance with abandon at my daughter’s celebration, but I am an informal person and the formality of a wedding leaves me cold. I’m fortunate that most of the heavy lifting has been done by people much more responsible than me. My wife, whose husband abandoned her to the labor. Eddie Izzo, the gentlemanly and professional head of Main Event Catering, Penny Rabinowitz of Save the Day Events, and finally the Rockleigh Country Club, who are black belts at Jewish weddings.
Eight current and former NYPD officers and one New Jersey corrections officer have been arrested on charges that they were running a gun-smuggling ring that dealt weapons in New York City.
Sukkah Mobiles roundup from the Mitzvah Tank Org.
A record fleet of 35 Sukkah Mobiles and 8 extra large Sukkah Mobiles on flatbed trailers (including the worlds largest Sukkah Mobiles, each at over 50 feet long!) travelled throughout New York City this Sukkos.
SukkahCycle attracted hundreds of people to shake the Lulav and have a bite in the unique Sukkah, a project of Chabad of Downtown Vancouver, directed by Rabbi Binyomin and Malky Bitton.
Thousands of Jews shook the Arba Minim on Kharkov and the region this year. Mivtzoyim was done in the streets on Yom Tov and Chol Hamoed and at a special Simchas Beis Hashoeiva program.
Never in a million years did Drexel University sophomore Michelle Silberman imagine she’d be spending so much of her time at the school’s new Chabad House.
The Jewish holiday of Succoth saw Rabbi Chaim Mendelsohn of the Canadian Federation of Chabad-Lubavitch set up a sukkah in the East Block courtyard in Ottawa near the Canadian Parliament.
Rabbi Shalom Ber Lifshitz, whose dedication to the physical and spiritual wellbeing of new Israelis nurtured entire communities of freshly-arrived refugees from locations around the world, passed away last month at the age of 83. The Chabad-Lubavitch activist’s approach to social welfare encompassed his entire being, expressing itself in the motto: “We will not give up on the wellbeing of any Jew.”
Congressional Candidate Karen Harrington, who is looking to unseat Congresswoman and Democratic Party Spokeswoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, visited the South Florida Jewish Academy, a special needs school located in Boca Raton to meet with the facility’s educators and obtain a better understanding of the curriculum being taught at the school.
Yoni Udkoff (Los Angeles, CA) and Chaya’le Sharfstein (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim Tuesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Give me your tired, your poor — your Internet-connected masses yearning to see.
The ‘Melbourne Weekly’ newspaper profiled Chabad Shliach Rabbi Shlomo Nathanson in a section titled “My Voice.” Sholomo Nathanson is a Port Melbourne rabbi, who uses kosher food to nourish hearts and minds in his community.
Tsfat’s Otzar HaStam followed the inspiration and energy of Yom Kippur this year by hosting a grand ceremony to celebrate the start of two new sefer Torahs. The Torah scrolls, which will be written by two expert sofrim from local anash, also marked the general launch of writing for Otzar HaStam’s stock of high-quality retail safrus.
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