Video: Chabad Entrepreneur Closes Stock Exchange

On Wednesday, May 30, the 10 finalists from the New York Stock Exchange Big Start-Up competition visited the New York Stock Exchange to ring the Closing Bell. Representing New York among the finalists was Lubavitcher entrepreneur Zalmy Duchman, founder of the Fresh Diet.

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New Shluchim to Maryland

Rabbi Yehudah and Batsheva Glick are moving on Shlichus to Germantown, Maryland, where they will be opening a new Chabad center under the auspices of head Shliach to Maryland Rabbi Shmuel Kaplan. Crownheights.info wishes the new Shluchim much success in all their endeavors.

New Documents to Shed Light on State of Israel

In a recent meeting between State Comptroller of Israel Micha Lindenstrauss and Rabbi Menachem Kirschenbaum, a file of documents that sheds light on the Rebbe’s involvement in events during the State’s early years was discussed as part of an ongoing project, to be completed soon, concerning the Rebbe’s involvement in major Jewish organizations such as the UJA Federation and American Jewish Congress.

New Volume Opens Door to Rebbe’s Rashi Sichos

Scholars for generations have tried to decipher the seemingly simplistic words of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, the 12th-century commentator known as Rashi whose glosses on the Five Books of Moses have become standard fare for any student of the Torah. But a new English volume attempts to reveal some of the principles behind the commentary, drawing on several talks delivered by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, whose elucidations of Rashi’s writings have been called by modern-day scholars as “revolutionary.”