Rabbi Yitzchok Bergstein insists he is not a missionary, but he is definitely a man with a mission: “To give every Jew the ability to celebrate Judaism.”
Every day for over two years, students from all over the world have joined Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, director of Chabad of the Valley, for daily Chitas shiurim on Jewish.TV.
Last month, a small English city called Leicester grabbed headlines when Rabbi Shmuli Pink, Chabad representative there was targeted by anti-Semitic vandals. In three separate attacks, bricks shattered the windows of Pink’s home and car, shaking the 300-strong Jewish community.
One of the most prominent Israeli archaeologists declared today that remains from the First and Second Jewish Temple period – including the Second Temple itself – lie underneath the Temple Mount surface, just waiting to be excavated.
A major accident on the I-95 Connecticut Turnpike brought traffic to a complete standstill, but for Ari Witkes who was heading to Worcester he found an opportunity to do Mivtzoim. Approaching one man he asked if he was Jewish and upon finding out that he is they immediately put on Teffilin together.
Chabad of Houston’s Rabbi Chaim Lazaroff participated in a Day of Prayer Ceremony, as part of the National Police Week festivities at the Houston Police Department.
Over the year’s late British businessman Zalman Jaffe and his wife Roselyn spent every Shavuos in Crown Heights, where they merited an especially close relationship with the Rebbe and Rebbetzin. At the Rebbe’s request Mr. Jaffe faithfully recorded these visits, which were published annually as My Encounters with the Rebbe and savored by Chabad readers everywhere.
The main backer of a ballot measure to ban circumcision in Santa Monica has dropped the effort over its perceived attack on religious freedom.
The second heat wave of 2011 will get cranking, with temperatures nearing 90 degrees and likely staying there for the rest of the week.
Children of participating Shluchim at the Western regional Kinus this past Shabbos enjoyed a special program just for them, arranged by MyShliach of Chabad House HQ (merkos suite 302) in conjunction with Chabad of Colorado. The program was just what the boys need to increase their pride and confidence, and give the young Shluchim a boost of Chassidishkeit.
In honor of Shavuos, CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos of the Rebbe receiving an aliya to the Torah, in the years 5737 (1977) and 5718 (1958). With special thanks to the Gall and Goldstein families.
The first Camp Gan Israel in the world this summer season has opened up on top of Alaska’s glaciers under the leadership of the Rebbe’s Shluchim in Alaska, Rabbi Yosef and Esther Greenberg.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: The Rebbe distributes wine from his ‘Kos Shel Bracha’ at the conclusion of Shavuos. Cantor Tzvi Hirsh Tzatzkis sings a song he composed honoring the Rebbe’s call in 1987 to build housing in Jerusalem. 7 Sivan, 5747 · June 4, 1987.
As is customary we stay awake and learn the entire first night of Shavuot, the Besht and Beis Shimshon put together a special set of though provoking and interesting Shiurim to run throughout the night.-
The thought of spending your summer vacation studying and learning is something almost any college student would pass on. Yet for a select group of 80 university students, this is exactly their itinerary.
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