We were in Aruba, a small Caribbean island that is home to about 35 Jewish people. Sunday morning, we started with calling the “Jew of the island.” Tony is his name. He knows everyone and everything and waits a whole year for the Roving Rabbis to come.
As every year, throughout the 6 weeks of the camp season, campers from Camp Gan Israel Florida worked to prepare a special and most befitting present for the Rebbe with their annual Mishnayos Be’Al peh program; together, the talmidim learned and were tested on a total of over 34,000 lines of Mishnayos, Tanya and Siddur.
While many are still enjoying camp, Bochurim in Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto enjoy a shuir Chasidus. The Yeshiva run by Rabbi Wagner and Menahel Rabbi Oster is the first Chabad Yeshiva in Northern America to resume studies on Rosh Chodesh Elul.
At a summer rally, the Rebbe puts charity in a tzedoka box held by a camper in Machane Yisroel in the year 5736. This photo is from the archives of Reb Shmuel Zalmanov.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Candidate for New York State Attorney General, Eric T. Schneiderman, currently serving as a NYS Senator for the 31st district, met today with Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, chairman of Merkos Leinyonai Chinuch.
The first Shabbos of the spiritual month of Elul was intensely uplifted at Aliya. Aliya’s annual Shabbaton this year was held at the beautiful East Hamptons.
Much talk about been generated over the controversy of the 770 court case leaving many with questions if it will ever end, or how it even started to begin with, and who brought whom to court?
MORRISTOWN [CHI] — Many will be surprised to learn that after thirty years in existence, the community Shul of Morristown, Bais Hamikdash, Bais Haknesset, Congregation Levi Yitzchok, is still without its own Sefer Torah.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sarah Shemtov, 74, a longtime resident of Crown Heights.
She is survived by her children; Rabbi Yossi Shemtov, Shliach in Tucson, AZ, Mrs. Feige Duchman (Crown Heights), Rabbi Kasriel Shemtov (Crown Heights), Mrs. Bassie Treitel (Montreal), and Rabbi Levi Shemtov, Shliach in Detroit, MI.
The Levaya will take place today, Tuesday and will be leaving from the Shomrei Hadas Chaples at 12:00pm and passing by 770 at around 12:45pm
Marking the end of an exciting and eventful summer the campers and staff members got together for a banquet where awards, trophy’s, and gifts were given out.
A magnificent audio collection, which will enable new access to dozens of Farbrengens, Sichos and Yechidusen of the Rebbe was recently donated to The Living Archive Preservation Project. The recordings, made by Rabbi Yossi Goldstein and his son Aaron, span the years 1951 through 1977.
Maybe they can call themselves the Rikers Jailbirds and warm up audiences with a spirited rendition of “Working on the Chain Gang.”
A new Torah was welcomed with singing and dancing to Chabad House of Caulfield, housed in a 770 look alike building in St. Kilda in Australia.
CROWN HEIGHTS — In an interesting show of Achdus all three Vaad Hakohol Members will be on hand for the opening game of the Crown Heights Softball Leagues Playoffs, and will all be throwing the ceremonial first pitch side by side to start the game.
Is this Crown Heightses new Mikva? Well, actually it is not. While working on repairing a water main in front of Beis Binyomin on Montgomery Street, something went wrong and the hole the workers dug to reach the subterranean pipe filled with water.
Washington — The Moscow-Pullman area had a special visit by two young roving rabbis last month.
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