JEM VIdeo – Shlucha Relates Story and Letter from Rebbe


CrownHeights.info presents this weeks Living Torah excerpt, “No Doubts”. Mrs. Bassie Garelik and her husband have been Shluchim in Milan, Italy since 1958. She shares a heartwarming letter she received from the Rebbe during a time when she was doubting her ability as a Shlucha…

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Officials Eye Bump in Mumps in City Jewish Nabes

By Kathleen Lucadamo for the New York Daily News

More than 900 New Yorkers – mostly Orthodox Jewish men – have been infected with mumps since an outbreak this summer, the city Health Department reported Tuesday.

That’s the most cases since 1979, when there were 157, and comes as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention counted 1,500 mumps cases in New York and New Jersey as of January.

Rabbi Zalman Liberow Discharged from Hospital

Alex Gorokhov

BROOKLYN [CHI] — Rabbi Zalman Liberow was discharged from the hospital yesterday, Tuesday. He was transferred from the Presbyterian-UPMC Hospital in Pittsburgh with an Air Ambulance to Haym Solomon Home in Brooklyn.

Chabad’s Presence Making Big Waves In Oceanside

By Stewart Ain for the Jewish Week

OCEANSIDE, NY — Rarely has a single day — one day less of Hebrew school instruction a week, to be exact — so polarized a Jewish community. But in the desperate fight for Jewish souls playing out in the Long Island town of Oceanside, Chabad of Oceanside’s one-day-a-week Hebrew school, now in its 10th year and drawing a big crowd of students, is tearing the community apart, the town’s leaders suggest.