Kansas City Chabad Turns 40

When Rabbi Sholom and Blumah Wineberg were dispatched to Kansas City by the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1970, this was the Wild West for Chasidim. Just the eighth Chabad-Lubavitch regional center, Los Angeles was the only permanent outpost further west.

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4 Sunday Night L’Chaims!

Shmuly Gajer (Crown Heights) and Orly Gandjian (Brooklyn, NY)
Crown Condos, 580 Crown St [between Albany and Troy Ave]

Levi Altein (Crown Heights) and Chaya Ladaew (Crown Heights)
FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]

Levi Weinbaum (London, England) and Mushka Posner (Birmingham, AL)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]

The Celebration of the Century

Kenosha News

Congregation President Ron Sanders, left, and Rabbi Tzali Wilschanski stand in front of the Bnai Zedek Synogogue at 1602 56th St.

It’s not often that members of a congregation get a peek into the past to see and touch artifacts representative of their local religious origins. But congregants belonging to the Jewish community’s Bnai Zedek Chabad will have such on opportunity on Oct. 17 during the celebration of their nearly 100-year-old synagogue.

Keeping It Kosher

by Frank Bruni – New York Times Magazine

Clara Santos Perez, left, the manager of Basil Pizza & Wine Bar, tries to balance inclusion with strict religious customs that are not her own.

“IS HE COMING BACK?” Clara Santos Perez was peering out the windows and across the street, where an imposing man in black stood, his face turned in her direction.

Was he watching? Waiting? Planning to confront her anew? Perez wondered aloud about all of this, wrung her hands and paced. In her agitation and dread she more closely resembled a criminal on the lam than what she really was: a restaurant manager rattled by an unusually troubling customer complaint.

Oholei Torah’s Tzeischem L’Sholom

Just before the summer, Beis HaMedrash Oholei Torah celebrated a Gala Tzeischem L’Sholom of the most elite Tmimim in Lubavitch today, who will be going, iy”h to communities around the world spreading Torah and Yiddishkeit.

Weekly Photo of the Rebbe!

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CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a photo of the Rebbe seeing off the Hundreds of guests who came to spend the month of Tishrei with him of 1961.

Sukka at Fire Station

Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum with one of the Firefighters, in front of the Sukka at Fire Station.

On Chol Hamoed Sukkot Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum, who is a Chaplain at the Rockville Fire Dept. arranged for a Sukka to be put up at the local Fire Station.

A Peak into the Human Psyche – The Story of Man’s Dual Inclinations

By Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov Jax, Fl.

Destroy man’s desire to sin, our sages tell us, and you would destroy the world.
Not that anyone needs to sin. But one who lacks the desire to sin is not a citizen of this world. And without citizens, who will effect lasting change? (Tzvi Freeman)

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Like it or not, we are each engaged in a battle against our own set of mean genes. They are wily opponents too. Masters of the visceral, they control through satisfaction, pain, and pleasure. (Dr.’s Terry Burnham and Jay Phelan, Mean Genes)

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Rabbi Aryeh Leib of Shpola would plaint to the Almighty in the following manner: “Master of the universe, what do you want from your children? You have, after all, placed them in a benighted world. A world where Satan himself prances amongst them, fanning their evil inclination; where all the things that provoke fleshly desires are ranged before their very eyes, while the warnings of retribution lie hidden between the covers of some moralistic tome. You can be certain that if you had arranged things the other way around – with the place of retribution right in front of their eyes, and all the fleshly desires hidden away in some learned old book, not a single person would ever do anything wrong!”

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