VIDEO: Shliach Aids in Removing Anti-Israel Hecklers

A Chabad Shliach, attending the Jewish Federation General Assembly in New Orleans, assisted in removing anti-Israel hecklers who interrupted Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s Speech. AP video clearly identifies Rabbi Dovid Eliezri helping Sheriff Deputies removed one of the hecklers.

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Boruch Dayan Hoemes – Batsheva Silberstein OBM

Rebbetzin Batsheva Silberstein of Antwerp Belgium, passed away shabbos morning after a long illness. She was 80.

Rebbetzin Silberstein OBM and her husband sheyichye, were the 1st Lubavitcher family in Antwerp after the war, they established the 1st Chabad house that serves there until this day.

Video: The Speech that Moved Everyone to Tears

There wasn’t a single person who was not moved to tears when young Shliach Moshe Cohen of Manchester, UK whose mother Esty Cohen (nee Rubin) passed away just a month ago, delivered his Dvar Torah. The crowd gave Moshe a standing ovation as he said “my mother is proud that I am carrying on my Shlichus, with a smile just as she taught me”.

Family First: Banquet Focuses on the Jewish Home

by Mendy Rimler – Lubavitch.com

Photos by Meir Alfasi – Shturem.net

Despite the chilly temperatures blowing off the New York Harbor Sunday evening, the ambience at the Gala Banquet of the International Conference of Chabad Shluchim was warm and inspired. The backdrop of the podium, designed as a brightly lit living room lined with bookshelves filled with Jewish books was meant to convey the warmth of a Jewish home. The Pier’s bare structure, beautifully transformed for the event with handsome lighting, draped walls and ceilings, was the venue for the 4500 person sit-down dinner at elegantly set candle-lit tables, capping off the five-day International Conference of Chabad–Lubavitch Emissaries.

360: A Surround View of the Banquet!

Essay: “The sandwiches will be delivered in an hour”

Today marks two years since the lives of six precious Jews who were murdered al kiddush hashem in the terror attacks in the Chabad House in Mumbai. Rabbi Gavirel and his wife Rivkah Holtzberg, the Shluchim that ran the Chabad House, Rabbi Aryeh Leibush Teitelbaum, Norma Schwartzberg Rabinowitz, Yochved Orpaz and Rabbi Ben Tzion Korman.

7 People Killed Since Saturday Night

NY Times

The mini-spike in murders that has pushed the homicide rate up 15 percent so far this year continued with three more killings this morning, following four on Saturday night and Sunday. Through Sunday, there were 459 murders this year, compared with 399 at this time last year, the police said this morning. Here are the seven new killings: