Three men were jailed today for stealing the notorious ‘Arbeit Macht Frei’ (‘Work Sets You Free’) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site last year.
Rabbi Lipa Schapiro, a senior member of the central Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical committee who mastered the study of Jewish law at the height of Soviet religious persecutions, passed away March 14 at the age of 97.
CALGARY [CTV] — A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for an 18-year-old man wanted in connection to anti Semitic graffiti incidents in Calgary.
The identity of the man cannot be revealed because he was 17-years-old at the time the crimes were committed.
Shlomo and Rosie (nee Rubashkin) Wolvovsky (Crown Heights)
Yom Kippur, 1973. Israel was suddenly attacked in the most devastating way. In the dramatic battle with Egyptian forces, many lives were lost. Following the war the Rebbe sent letters of encouragement to the wounded and to the families of the departed. A young mother whose husband perished in the war wrote to the Rebbe, asking: How can she explain this tragedy to her children? What words of comfort can she give them?
The Avner Institute would like to present this moving letter, courtesy of Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin, chief librarian of Agudas Chasidei Chabad of Brooklyn. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: www.portraitofaleader.org
A recent discovery on an 8mm film of a recording of a choir in Jaffa, Israel, sheds light on an innovative program initiated by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
In the late 1950s, Rabbi Benyomin Levin of Kfar Chabad, Israel – a cantor by profession and a teacher in the Chabad school in Jaffa – received a letter from the Rebbe requesting that he organize a school choir—which he promptly did.
MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — This morning while many people were busy making last minute arrangements for their Holiday get away. At the Rabbinical College of America In Morristown NJ, the Passover Seder was already well under way.
The 69th Precinct is moving to put the muffler on loud parties before they start for the summer.
Earlier this month, the precinct sent out an email message to area residents asking them to inform the precinct of chronic problem locations.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A father is calling an assault on his 11-year-old son a racially motivated attack. Detectives from the NYPD’s Hate Crimes Taskforce took over the case earlier this week, and interviewed the victim.
A 57-year-old Bronx bicyclist who careened after hitting an opening car door was struck and killed by a city bus Wednesday, officials said.
The Itche Kadoozy Show returned today with part 1 of a Pesach mini-series, about getting into the Pesach Spirit.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
To see the rest of the text of the Nasi click the Extended Article!
WELLESLEY, MA [CHI] — We all know how crazy Pesach preparations can be, especially for Chabad Shluchim who are preparing for dozens of guests. Now imagine being a Chabad Shliach preparing for over 50 guests with 3 feet of water flooding your basement, including almost all your Pesach food. Unfortunately, this nightmare scenario struck Rabbi Moshe and Geni Bleich of Wellesley, MA last night.
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