Chabad Plans 6 New Centers on European Campuses
JTA
Chabad will establish six new student centers on college campuses in Northern Europe over the next year.
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In a new letter, two members of the Crown Heights Beis Din declared that child molesters have the Din of a Rodef and therefore it is permissible to inform on them to the police and courts, given that there is real evidence of abuse.
Beis Din: Informing on Molesters – Not Messirah
In a new letter, two members of the Crown Heights Beis Din declared that child molesters have the Din of a Rodef and therefore it is permissible to inform on them to the police and courts, given that there is real evidence of abuse.
Cops “on Strike” – Issuing Fewer Summonses
NY Daily News
Dozens of cops have launched an unauthorized slowdown of sorts – dramatically cutting the number of tickets they issue for moving violations, sources said.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe": At a Farbrengen on the 13 of Tammuz, 5715, the Rebbe speaks about ‘Merkos Shlichus’ which was initiated by his father-in-law – the Friediker Rebbe. During the Sicha the Rabbe’s told the famous story of a Tomim walking in the street of Boston with a beard and Tzitzis and not knowing the effect he had a non observant Jew who happened to see him from a window nearby.
Video: When a ‘Tomim’ walks in the Street
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: At a Farbrengen on the 13 of Tammuz, 5715, the Rebbe speaks about ‘Merkos Shlichus’ which was initiated by his father-in-law – the Friediker Rebbe. During the Sicha the Rabbe’s told the famous story of a Tomim walking in the street of Boston with a beard and Tzitzis and not knowing the effect he had a non observant Jew who happened to see him from a window nearby.
A Lubavitcher chossid appears in this Starbucks commercial, can you identify him?
Video: Starbucks Rabbi
A Lubavitcher chossid appears in this Starbucks commercial, can you identify him?
3 Years to the Passing of Chana (Raskin) Wolvovsky OBM
Today marks the 3rd Yahrtzeit of Chana (Raskin) Wolvovsky T.N.Z.B.H., who passed away on the ninth of Tammuz 5768.
A Life of Mesiras Nefesh: Rabbi Zalman Kazen, 92
Rabbi Zalman Kazen with his family. (his mother-in-law “bubbe” Maryasha Garelik OBM sits to the left.)
Rabbi Zalman Kazen, patriarch of a well known Chabad family, passed away Sunday at the age of 92. Rabbi Kazen, a Chabad disciple of the sixth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Joseph I. Schneerson, and later of Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, served as rabbi of the Tzemach Tzedek shul in Cleveland, Ohio.
New Engagement!
Motty Segal (Migdal Ha’emek, Israel) and Mussia Biderman (Vienna, Austria)
Baby Girl!
Shmuli and Miri (nee Hus) Shuchat (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Berel and Chaya Wolvovsky (Sillver Spring, MD)
Baby Girl!
Chaim and Moussia (nee Greenberg) Goldstein (Philadelphia, PA)
Toronto Television Series Finds Home at Jewish.TV
A panel of experts and students discuss some of the Rebbe’s teachings in “Messages.”
The Toronto-based television program “Messages” has found a new home at Jewish.TV, the multimedia portal of Judaism website Chabad.org, where it can be found under the heading “Wisdom From the Rebbe: Learning From the Rebbe’s Talks.”
AP
As hot, muggy weather coupled with air pollution blankets eastern New York, state health and environmental officials are urging people with asthma and other respiratory troubles to limit strenuous outdoor activity.
NYC Air Quality Alert Issued for Hot, Muggy Weather
AP
As hot, muggy weather coupled with air pollution blankets eastern New York, state health and environmental officials are urging people with asthma and other respiratory troubles to limit strenuous outdoor activity.
Photos: Visiting Day in Gan Israel, Parksville
Visiting day took place today, Sunday. Parents came in from the city and nearby bungalow colonies to spend the day with their children in camps in the Catskill Mountain region.
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