With the JLI National Jewish Retreat less than two months away, over 60 Chabad Houses across the US,Canada and abroad have already signed up as delegates. The five day retreat (August 16-21) combines the best of Jewish learning with a luxurious setting at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, CT. To quote a participant from last year, “It is more fantastic and more amazing than I could ever imagine.”
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“Wings of Song” with Violinist Miri Ben Ari, is a selected song from the highly anticipated album “New Sinai Sound” by Composer / lyricist Cecelia Margules. The clip tells the story of a young boy who embarks on a journey involving different situations in life. In the process, he discovers that his journey is a metaphor of the Jewish people’s yearning for the Messiah.
Nearly two decades have passed since the death of seven-year-old Gavin Cato, the son of Guyanese immigrants. In August 1991, Cato was walking down President Street in Crown Heights when 22-year-old Yosef Lifsh, who was driving as a part of the three-car motorcade of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson—then-leader of the Chabad Lubavitch Hasidic sect—accidentally hit the car in front of him and then veered off onto the sidewalk, striking little Cato and ending his life.
Mendy (ben Zusha) Wilhelm (Crown Heights) and Musia Schneerson (Crown Heights)
MONTREAL, Canada — More than 500 people attended the Friendship Circle’s 10th anniversary celebration gala, held May 31. The Friendship Circle, which pairs teen volunteers and children with special needs in friendships that enrich young lives, was honoring its more than 400 teen and adult volunteers from 35 schools and the children and families with whom they work.
As OTEG closed its fifth successful year, they had a grand Chinese Auction with almost 40 Prizes, ranging from a grand trip for two anywhere in the USA to a new Borsolino Hat, and from a sandwich maker to Seforim. The prizes were sponsored by local community members and stores.
Dozens of yellow cabs from New York City lined the streets around the state Capitol on Tuesday as cabbies rallied against legislation to let livery drivers legally pick up passengers who hail them in the city’s four outer boroughs and northern Manhattan.
Shaina Feldman grew up the daughter of a Rabbi, in a Chabad community. Today she is the wife of Rabbi Shmuly Feldman, working together in an outreach to Jews in Clay County, Florida. “We want to build the Jewish community here,” she said.
A group of New York City atheists is demanding that the city remove a street sign honoring seven firefighters killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks because they say the sign violates the separation of church and state.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — After CrownHeights.info’s article exposing the actions of a number of ‘Tzfati’ Bochurim toward a Shliach, the Hanholoh of Kvutzeh posted a letter in 770 warning Bochurim in the strongest possible way that disrespecting anyone, Anash or Shluchim, will result in dismissal from Yeshiva without warning.
Preparations are underway in Kfar Chabad for the Shabbos Hachono for Gimmel Tammuz. Rabbi Ezra Shochet, Rosh Yehivah of Ohr Elchanan – Chabad in Los Angeles will be the main Guest of the Shabbos. On Motzei Shabbos Roshei Yeshivah, Maspi’im, Shluchim and Rabbonim will attend the central Kinus.
What started as a mitzvah campaign for a Refuah Shlaima for his daughter Bas Sheva tragically turned into a campaign in her memory. Rabbi Mordechai Kanelsky shares the story with ULY students who just completed a staggering amount of Tanya by heart in her memory.
A most impressive Graduation ceremony was held earlier this week in the Oholei Torah Ballroom. The families of the graduates were visibly impressed as the students marched in, class by class, and took their seats as the program was about to begin.
Levi and Chani (nee Slonim) Levertov (Phoenix, AZ)
Dovber (ben Yankel) Bryski (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Liberow (Flatbush)
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