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Weekly Letter: Cooperation of All People in our Efforts to Promote our Activities

The Rebbe’s letter addresses our public relations with the politicians here in the US: in connection with reception in Washington DC where members of Congress were honoring the Rebbe and Chabad with an official declaration of EDUCATION DAY, proclaiming the Rebbe’s birthday as Education Day in America. In his letter, the Rebbe explains the importance of having the cooperation of all people in our efforts to promote our activities (in this case, education for all), for the good of non-Jews and Jews alike.

Who Aare You Eshba‘al ben Bad‘a?

A rare inscription dated to the 10th century BCE, to the time of King David, was discovered a few years ago in an excavation carried out at Khirbet Qeiyafa in the Elah Valley, southwest of Jerusalem. “An approximately 3,000-year-old pottery jar, broken into many sherds, was discovered in 2013,” says Saar Ganor of the Israel Antiquities Authority. “Letters written in ancient Canaanite script discerned on several sherds sparked the curiosity of researchers.”