Daily Chitas Class Now Available On-Line

Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon has been teaching a daily Chumash and Rashi class for the past twenty or so years. About 10 years ago, a daily Tanya class was added as well.

These two classes are now streamed live daily and are also available “On Demand.” The venue of this Shiur is Chabad of Encino, California, following morning Davening. The average daily attendance is 20-25 people and 40-60 people on Sundays, “Kain Yirbu.”

In conjunction with the devoted efforts of Chabad.org on the East Coast and Mr. Daniel Aharanov, a local lay leader in the digital media industry on the West Coast, this class is now available to the cyber-space community.

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Seven-Year-Old Daughter of Chabad Emissaries in Bangkok Passes Away

By Chana Kroll

Classmates and teachers of a young Jewish girl who succumbed to a brain tumor remembered her for a maturity beyond her years and a profound love of Jewish people the world over. Chaya Mushka Ashkenazi, who passed away June 17 at Tel Hashomer Hospital in Tel Aviv, was the daughter of Rabbi Chaim Eliezer and Rochel Ashkenazi, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Bangkok, Thailand, since 2000. She was 7.

According to friends of the family, it was almost one year ago to the day that the Ashkenazis, who helped coordinate activities for all of Thailand’s five Chabad Houses, travelled back home to Israel for a wedding. Her parents wanted to give the girl and her five siblings a chance to spend quality time with their extended family in Kfar Chabad and Jerusalem, but not long after the wedding, Chaya Mushka complained of extreme headaches and of not feeling well in general. Tests revealed the worst.

Oholei Torah Classmates Reunite After 20 Years

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Gimmel Tammuz is typically a time where all Chabad Chasidim go to the Rebbe’s Ohel and along the way many Lubavitchers will see others they haven’t seen in some time, however for one group of friends seeing each other on Gimmel Tammuz wasn’t something that was going to happen by accident or fortuitously, it was a long prior planned reunion of the 8th grade Oholei Torah of the year 5748/1988.

Video – The Rebbe & The Judge

By Rabbi Yosef Katzman – The Cable Jew

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From the mouths of babes … you anchored strength – (psalms 8,3)

Recently on a Shabbos in 770, I overheard a dialogue between a 12 and 22 year old. It was kind of a big/little brother schmooze, discussing their inspiration from the Rebbe.

The 12 year old who was born three years after Gimmel Tammuz 5754, turns to his mentor who was only seven at that time. Revealing the most powerful sentiments I ever heard describing the power of our most revered Rebbe.

Mazal Tov! – 7 Sunday NIght L’Chaims!

Yanky Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Goldberger (Crown Heights) .
IYH at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Mendy Chayo (Crown Heights) and Chana Sarah Kaplan (Montreal, Canada) .
IYH at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].

Mendy Sanowicz (Los Angeles, CA) and Gillie Resnick (New York, NY) .
IYH at Bais Rivkah, 310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave].

Lazer >Labkowsky (Los Angeles) and Luba Chein (Crown Heights) .
IYH at 1376 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Dovid Okunov (Crown Heights) and Chanie Scheinberger (Crown Heights) .
IYH at FREE, 1383 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave].

Reuven Chaim (Richard) Samuels (Crown Heights) and Esther Hadassa Loewenthal (UK / Crown Heights).
IYH at Beis Levi Yitzchok, 556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave].

Alti Burston (Los Angeles, CA) and Dini Rapoport (Long Beach, CA) .
IYH at 4360 Myrtle Ave, Long Beach, CA 90807.

To submit your Simcha or Mazal Tov email us at MazalTov@CrownHeights.info!!

Russia Won’t Participate in Chabad Seforim Suit

MOSCOW, RUSSIA [AP] — Russia told a U.S. court on Friday that judges have no authority to tell the country how to handle sacred Jewish documents held in its state library that were seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies.

The documents are at the center of a lawsuit brought by members of Chabad-Lubavitch, which follows the teachings of Eastern European rabbis and emphasizes the study of the Torah. The group is suing Russia in U.S. court to recover thousands of manuscripts, prayers, lectures and philosophical discourses by leading rabbis dating back to the 18th century.

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Yanky Kotlarsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Goldberger (Crown Heights) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum, 792 Eastern Pkwy [corner Kingston Ave].

Mazal Tov! – New Engagement!

We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Mendy Chayo (Crown Heights) and Chana Sarah (bas R Leibel) Kaplan (Montreal, Canada) on their engagement.

The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave].