Jewish community members in Mariupol, Ukraine, gathered at the site near the village of Agrobazza where upwards of 20,000 Jews were murdered by Nazi forces 70 years ago for an annual ceremony to memorialize and honor the victims.
Every hour, car crashes kill an average of four people on America’s roads.
Efforts to unite Jewish children throughout the world through the writing of a Torah scroll are taking on a uniquely local flavor in the State of Kansas, with day camps, preschools, Hebrew schools and day schools signing up students to sponsor letters in the fifth Children’s Torah Scroll to be commissioned since the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, launched the worldwide project in 1981.
Yanky Scheinfeld (Crown Heights) and Malkie Kaler (Baltimore, MD)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
At Island Smokes in New York City’s Lower East Side neighborhood, customers sick of the highest tax on cigarettes in America are fighting back by rolling their own cigarettes out of pipe tobacco.
Dear Doe Namay AKA John Doe,
Your op-ed last week gave me a bigger jolt than my morning coffee. You stated your opinion against ‘Chabad Lite’ because they may, G-d forbid, call themselves Chabad. Do you consider yourself Chabad? Where exactly can I pick up some “Chabad” measuring tape? Is anyone who disagrees with your opinion really a hater? And how exactly can you say, after penning such an article, that you have Ahavas Yisroel?
Mendy and Rochel Traxler (Houston, TX)
Elimelech and Goldi (nee Zilbershtrom) Perman (Lod, Israel)
Yoel Gefen (London, UK) and Miriam Bloom (Gateshead, UK)
Last week Yeshivas Beis Menachem of Wilkes-Barre was all suited up and decorated. The black tie event was in honor of the Yeshiva’s 13th anniversary and the birthday of the founder/Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Urie Perelman.
On Sunday, Nov. 6 at 2 a.m., time will revert back to standard, giving everyone an extra hour to sleep in.
With the beginning of the Bereishis Chitas cycle, Kehot Publications Society announced the release of Studies in Rashi, which contains 12 complete “Rashi Sichos” on Chumash Bereishis, selected from the Rebbe’s 39-volume Likkutei Sichos. The essays are presented, for the first time, in a bi-lingual Hebrew/English format.
Born into a secular Jewish family, Rabbi Michoel Kanterovitz returned to Judaism on his own at the age of 7. Over the course of his rabbinic career, he served Jewish communities in Canada, England and Australia. But it was the Rebbe who got him his first rabbinic post.
Over fifty men and women who serve as Rabbis and mentors in the federal, state and local prisons gathered for the annual conference at the Aleph Institute in Pittsburgh.
