Zachary Shporer, 18, from Charlotte, NC, was diagnosed with leukemia on March 1. Two weeks later, all one hundred and fifty students and faculty of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, where Zachary is a student, did a mitzvah in his honor.
Mendel and Shterna Sarah (nee Wilansky) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
Moishe Hyman (Pittsburgh, PA) and Yehudis Rodal (Milan, Italy)
L’Chaim Sunday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
Akiva Steinmetz (Detroit, MI) and Esther Malka Loschak (S. Barbara, CA)
Sholomke and Chani (nee Posner) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Shmuel Sholom and Faige Rivka Serebryanski (New Windsor, NY)
Yitzchok and Chanie (nee Schapiro) Itkin (Manhattan, NY)
Berel and Chanie Goldman (Gainesville, FL)
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
Until you can see the good within a person, you are incapable of helping him. (Tzvi Freeman, Bringing Heaven Down To Earth)
– – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok of Lubavitch was imprisoned in 1927 for perpetuating Jewish life within the vast boarders of the Soviet Union. The incarceration and physical abuse took its toll; leaving the Rebbe in a deteriorated state of health, for which he eventually sought treatment at various European sanatoriums. The Rebbe wrote the following letter to one of his sons-in-law in the winter of 1935:
On Friday afternoons, the headquarters of the Chabad sect of Orthodox Judaism comes alive as men in black jackets and hats stream like worker bees in and out of the subterranean entrance on Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn. Those exiting scatter across Crown Heights to prepare for the coming Sabbath — Shabbos in Yiddish — many drawn a block east by the overpowering smell of lilies and the ebullient welcome of Chani Frankel to Mimulo, a flower shop on Albany Avenue.
Bikur Cholim of Crown Heightses beautiful mosaic was unveiled today before the 7th grade classes students who created it. The young artists were there excitedly pointed and proudly showing off their part in the creation of the unique display of unity and creativity.
BROOKLYN [CHI] — A Lubavitcher Bochur was jumped by a group of 4 teenage thugs who attacked and tried to rob him this afternoon. The incident took place near Williamsburg, and ended with the arrest of one of the perpetrators.
History is being written in the Balkan countries. Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, Shliach to Salonika Greece, who also serves as the chief Rabbi of Albania, has been traveling through the Balkans to enliven the Jewish spirit in the communities where the is no organized kehila.
A home that was in the midst of being renovated was broken into over the weekend, the thieves tore open the walls and ripped out the copper pipes, as well as the radiators and baseboards.
Speaking to a crowd of hundreds in Yeshiva University’s Lamport Auditorium, the mayor of Itamar, Rabbi Moshe Goldsmith, described the impact of five brutal murders on his small, close-knit community.
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