In honor of Shavuos, CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos of the Rebbe receiving an aliya to the Torah, in the years 5737 (1977) and 5718 (1958). With special thanks to the Gall and Goldstein families.
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The first Camp Gan Israel in the world this summer season has opened up on top of Alaska’s glaciers under the leadership of the Rebbe’s Shluchim in Alaska, Rabbi Yosef and Esther Greenberg.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: The Rebbe distributes wine from his ‘Kos Shel Bracha’ at the conclusion of Shavuos. Cantor Tzvi Hirsh Tzatzkis sings a song he composed honoring the Rebbe’s call in 1987 to build housing in Jerusalem. 7 Sivan, 5747 · June 4, 1987.
As is customary we stay awake and learn the entire first night of Shavuot, the Besht and Beis Shimshon put together a special set of though provoking and interesting Shiurim to run throughout the night.-
The thought of spending your summer vacation studying and learning is something almost any college student would pass on. Yet for a select group of 80 university students, this is exactly their itinerary.
When New Yorkers head underground, they cannot always be sure of what awaits them. The city’s subway system can be mysterious, with daily delays resulting from minor emergencies, track work and other events in the tunnels that riders know they will never truly understand.
In observance of the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, 18-year-old Carolyn Fine will not use electricity, even that which powers the microphone. Nor will she ride in a car to her graduation; instead, she’ll walk to the ceremony.
The letter rogatory sent to Pakistan in connection with the 26/11 Mumbai terror attack has described Ilyas Kashmiri as one of the accused behind the attack who was planning more such attacks on India. Kashmiri was reported to have been killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan tribal region. Many believed that Kashmiri was going to be the new face of al-Qaeda after Osama’s death.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — For some of our wandering youth the door to Aliya isn’t just a door, it’s an entrance to a place that will accept them no matter what, at any time of day or night and for some it can be the last place for them to go. This is the significance behind the dedication of the new door by Shaya Gordon.
San Antonio’s Jewish community on Sunday celebrated the arrival of a new, Torah scroll.
In honor of Shavuot, JLI and TorahCafe.com are proud to bring you our Shavuot Webcast entitled: From Sinai to Cyberspace. With an introductory montage of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz, Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks and Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, From Sinai to Cyberspace is a perfect piece to share with your friends and family this Shavuot to offer them a fresh look with unique approaches to how they can bring a little bit more Torah into their lives.
A Jewish wedding underway in Dnepropetrovsk is uniting two families whose patriarchs were once considered dissidents by the very government that now embraces the religious revival taking place throughout Ukraine’s third-largest city.
Chaim and Rochel (nee Schechter ) Schochet (South Beach, FL)
The Mitzvah ATM is about to dispense the Torah in honor of the holiday of Shavuot. One snag, though: It wants trustworthy guarantors.
The English edition of Hamodia profiled the Lubavitcher community in Winnipeg, headed by Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Altein. Read the full article, a true Kiddush shem Lubavitch.
As every year, from Yud Shevat thru Yud Alef Nissan, talmidim of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles worked in preparing a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 158,864 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya, Siddur and Yediyos Kloliyos.
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