On a visit to Israel, Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird told an audience of 350 at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum that “Israel has no greater friend in the world than Canada.” He then surprised them by saying “Canada does not stand behind Israel… .” After a slight pause he continued: “Canada stands shoulder-to-shoulder with Israel” in any threats and challenges it may face. He was met with warm applause.
Throughout the week, students from Oholei Torah are busy preparing for Yud Shevat, by learning basi legani and all the minhagim of the day.
If you have an upnapid New York City parking ticket, today is the last chance to have the fine reduced. The popular program, which reduces parking tickets by one third if you wave your right to contest the ticket, was axed by Mayor Bloomberg, and will expire tonight, Tuesday, at midnight.
Yankel Shurpin (Crown Heights) and Miriam Wilhelm (London, UK)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Dovber Chaiton (Santon, South Africa) and Srula Duchman (Los Angeles, CA)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
The first time a rabbi stepped into the newly opened Freehold, NJ Kia dealership, offering freshly baked challah and a chance to put on tefillin, no one was more surprised than dealership owner Jay Brichke.
Think: music, delicious food, and a heartfelt speech. Think: laughter and wonderful memories being made. Thinking of your average communal celebration? Think again!
Dovber Chaiton (Santon, South Africa) and Srula Duchman (Los Angeles, CA)
They say “Once an OS student, always an OS student.” The first ever alumni reunion proved just that! On Sunday, the Nigri International Shluchim Online School alumni students, from around the US, enjoyed an Online School reunion. Where was it held, you ask? Online, of course! While some students joined together in the Shluchim Office for this event, others logged in from their homes and dorms around the USA.
Around 500 people, about 10% of the Glasgow Jewish community, attended the eighth Lubavitch of Scotland Kosher Food and Wine Expo this past Sunday. The first expo was held in 1973.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Shimon Aron Simpson, of blessed memory, son of Rabbi Eliyahu Simpson, OBM. Rabbi Simpson is survived by his children: R’ Yosef Yitzchok, Menachem Mendel, Shaina Raizy and Frumie; and siblings: R’ Sholom Mendel Simpson, R’ Leibel Simpson, Mrs. Miriam Gorden, Mrs. Krainy Rosenfeld and Mrs. Esther Goldman.
European campus rabbis and their families gathered in Manchester, England, to discuss issues surrounding Jewish student life and coordinate programming against a backdrop of rising anti-Semitism and threats to religious life across the continent.
Sholom Ber and Chaya (nee Laufer) Elishevitz (Bellevue, WA)
Mont-Tremblant is known worldwide as a ski centre and après-ski hot spot, but this famous Laurentian Mountain resort is actually a popular holiday destination year-round.
Can a website, run anonymously, with no transparent operating guidelines or credible research policy, no psychologists or professionals on board, be allowed to bad mouth and disgrace so many in our community whilst destroying their families? On the other hand, can people who are dangerously at loose, leaving lifetime scars on our very own precious children, be allowed to walk guilt free whilst their victims cower in fear?
Eating in the subway could soon come with a hefty price tag if one lawmaker gets his way.
At the January 25 launch of a project commemorating the MS St. Louis in Ottawa, Rick Dykstra, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration acknowledged “a grim incident in Canada’s not-too-distant past.”
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