Unethical in the Name of Ethics
Animal Vs. Human Flesh
The following moving episode from the “other side” of the Atlantic was related by Cantor Moshe Kraus from Ottawa, who observed it first-hand. *
Rabbi Chanoch and Leah Gechtman are the newly named Chabad representatives to Mumbai. Before details of their appointment were made public, they shared a candid conversation with Baila Olidort, Editor-in-Chief of Lubavitch.com/Lubavitch News Service, about their decision to accept this appointment.
Rabbi Menachem Porush was born in Jerusalem in 1916. A seventh-generation Jerusalemite, he devoted his life to championing Torah values and Torah education in Israel. A story about the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak of Lubavitch
Hundreds of Bochurim that came from overseas to spend Gimmel Tammuz by the Rebbe, were hosted in basements provided by Yossi Popack and Rabbi Dovid Fisher.
OLYMPIA, WA [KIROTV] — Olympia police are investigating a hate crime after vandals knocked over a Jewish menorah and then desecrated it.
The vandalism happened overnight Monday outside the home and office of Rabbi Cheski Edelman.
FLORIDA — Following on the heels of the amazing success of last week’s CTeen Northeast regional event, is CTeen South’s regional Paintball & BBQ trip. Over 100 teenagers gathered for a day of fun, food and paintball! The event was co-organized by CTeen’s headquarters in Brooklyn and a committee of shluchim in South Florida.
Tzivos Hashem visited Eton College, the school where the Royal Princes attended to run a Kashrus programme. This was part of their monthly Tefillin Club, organised by askan Mr Mendy Tejtelbaum.
Fitzy (Yosef Y) and Nechama D (nee Plotkin) Lipsker (Crown Heights)
Mendy Schapiro (ben R Nochum, Crown Heights) and Chaya Begun (bas R Sholom Menachem Mendel, S. Paulo, Brazil)
L’Chaim Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Baruch. . . Shehecheyanu V’kiy’manu V’higiyanu Lizman Hazeh.
If you’re wondering what prompts the preceding invocation of thanksgiving and gratitude – normally reserved for particularly pleasing intermittent occurrences – that’s a good sign. It means that you’ve taken the bait. But don’t feel too bad, you can be sure that there is more to the invocation of this prayer, at this seemingly mundane and uneventful time of year, than mere attention grabbing.
The reason for the Shehecheyanu is because I, among others, have experienced this week something more moving and more pleasing than anything I have witnessed in my entire half century of residency in this world. I offer the Shehecheyanu in recognition of that deep soul rending occurrence.
MONSEY — This past Wednesday night, the Cheder held its first boys 8th grade graduation. Rabbi Wolowik welcomed everyone and introduced Mendel Jacobs, a talmid of 8th grade to act as MC. The MC called upon fellow talmidim Yechezkel Gross and Mendel Klein to recite the Rebbe’s and Rebetzin’s capitel tehillim.
Fitzy (Yosef Y.) and Nechama D. (nee Plotkin) Lipsker
305 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Shloime Menashe and Esther (nee Blau) Blasenstien
591 Lefferts Ave [between Kingston and Albany Ave]
Moshe and Leah (nee Weiser) Sosover
433 Sterling St [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Yonason and Chaya Kahanovitch
363 New York Ave, Apt 2F [between Carroll and Crown St]
Avremke and Chanie Kozliner
691 Crown St [between Troy and Schenectady Ave]
In a candid discussion about contemporary issues facing todays young single Bochurim, the Besht center hosted Rabbi Manis Freidman and Rabbi Yossi Paltiel who discussed those issues openly, and event created a firestorm of a discussion on the issue.
As Gimmel Tammuz nears what better way is there to prepare then to Learn
The Besht Center is offering two exciting learning opportunities.
1. The Rebbe Chossid relationship, an exploration of the Mamer Zos Chukas with Harav Leibke Kaplan.
The public voted for the top 14 finalists who will partake in a 3 step final challenge. The third challenge, titled “The Brighter Side”, requires each contestant to take a themed original photo that can be seen in the Extended Article.
Horav Hachossid, Dr. Nissan Mindel (2nd of Nissan 5672-1912- 12th of Tamuz 5759-1999) was born in 5672-1912 on the 2nd of Nissan, in Riga, Latvia, to Horav Yaakov Yitzchak and Mrs. Bunya Mindel. At the age of fifteen, he was studying in the Yeshiva Torah Im Derech Eretz which combined Torah studies and secular subjects, and was under the direction of Horav Chaim Mordechai Hodokov. The curriculum was based on the teachings of Horav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch and encouraged the older students to continue their studies in the university and at the same time to stay connected to Torah, Mitzvos and Yiras Shomayim.
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