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Dershowitz To Norway’s Jews: Take Courage

by Baila Olidort – Lubavitch.com

OSLO, Norway — Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz met with leading members of Oslo’s Jewish community at the city’s Chabad House last week, where he spoke about the extreme anti-Israel, anti-Semitic attitudes he encountered in Norway. He urged them to take lessons in Jewish pride and courage from Chabad.

How Can You Give Nachas to the Rambam in Heaven?

In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: In honor of the start of the 30th cycle of the daily study of the Rambam which begins this week, we are presenting a video clip of a farbengen from the 18th of Iyar 5745. The Rebbe speaks about the importance of the daily learning of the Rambam and then making public siyumim.

Fractured Zablo Issues Another Ruling

A clarification was just issued on the clarification from Motzai Shabbos, highlighting a divide within the Zablo. The recent departure of Rabbi Avrohom Rosenberg left the Zablo pitted against themselves, as is being announced with a new letter from Rabbi Boaz Jurkowitz, and cosigned by Rabbi Yosef Hecht.

5 Sunday Night Lechaims!

Zalmy Wolff (Crown Heights) to Chaya Inglis (London, England)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Mechy Gancz (Monsey, NY) and Roizy Itzinger (London, UK)
Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]

Yaakov Wilansky (Montreal, Canada) and Chaya Kotlarsky (New City, NY)
Rayim Ahuvim, 1614 Carroll St [corner Schenectady Ave]

Levi Shaikevitz (Milan, Italy) and Slava Naparstek (Paris, France)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

Eliyahu Eidelman (Paris, France) and Mushky Avtzon (Crown Heights)
Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave]

Video: The Rebbe Responds to Outside Educational Methods

In response to the recent debate about bringing an outsider to lecture Crown Heights on educating our Mechachim, we present the follwoing video of Mrs. Sharfstein talking about a Yechidus in which she asked the Rebbe about the Montessori method of education.

IDF Shliach Celebrates His Personal Miracle

Photos by Meir Alfasi

Rabbi Menachem Ofen, a Shliach who is the head of ‘Ohr Lachayal’ and a volunteer in the ‘organization for the soldiers’ arranged unprecedented Purim celebrations on Israeli Defense Force bases.