On Monday, the My Encounter with the Rebbe interview team arrived in Montreal and has already captured the testimony of 5 individuals. The rigorous interview schedule includes 25 interviews to be conducted by two experienced interviewers over a 10-day period.
AJN TV’s Gareth Narunsky reports that Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen, run by Rabbi Dovid Slavin of Chabad of NSW, launched a major baking initiative to help relieve the victims’ dire situation.
Amid a firestorm of allegations, Zaki Tamir closed his personal blog with which he gave unfiltered updates to the community.
In honor of Yud Shvat we are proud to present another clip of the documentary. In this clip you will see part of an interview with Mr. Arnold Dalfen where he describes his first visit to the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Schneerson.
It’s 6:00 on a Tuesday evening in a small town in Texas. Nine year old Shmuly waits eagerly by the phone, as he has every week for the past year. Thousands of miles away, Yossi finds a quiet spot in his yeshiva and dials. The phone rings. Shmuly opens a sicha.
On Thursday, January 20, 2010 there will be a rally in honor of Tu Bishvat at the Ohel. Buses leave 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
Tzipporah Juarez, a Tunisian expat living in New York, is nervously following the news coming from Tunis. Desperate to know what is going on as it happens, she depends on Twitter, itself considered a catalyst in ending the 23 year career of Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali’s autocratic rule.
Yehuda Piamenta, father of Yossi and Avi Piamenta, the known musicians, passed away today in Israel at the age of 84.
Zalmy and Shaina (nee Witkes) Greenfeld (Worcester, Mass)
Chassidim are one family. Most of us are aware of this quote from HaYom Yom, but this Monday, the pisgam came to life as over 75 Tzerei HaShluchim joined in the 3rd annual Kinus HaChadorim, in the Chabad Center of Newtown PA.
We are pleased to present our thirty-third online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Shimon and Chani (nee Avtzon) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Royi Flescher (Melbourne, Australia) and Tamara (Tami) Bell (Toronto, Canada)
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — In the second snow related accident in less than 7 hours, a minivan full with children on their way to school skidded on ice and collided with a double parked van, and a parked car. B”H there was no injuries.
Crown Heights Vaad Hakohol Chairman Zaki Tamir said businessman Sam Chanin “is the Executive Director of the Vaad Hakohol over the next 6 months.”
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