The weekly Living Torah DVD currently includes a special children’s narration audio track in Hebrew and English.
A lot of effort and money go into producing this feature, and JEM is considering eliminating the track in order to economize the massive undertaking.
Following a recent appearance on ABC’s “The View” by actress Susie Essman promoting Loving Leah, a Hallmark movie in which she purportedly portrays Lubavitch women, Lubavitch.com received many calls and emails by readers expressing their dismay.
What follows is a conversation between Baila Olidort, editor of Lubavitch.com, and actress Leslie Grossman.
The following is part one of an intense, mind-altering encounter between Daniel, from Chabad of Antwerp, and the Rebbe. Special thanks to Rabbi Shabtai Slavaticki and the editorial staff of the Avner Institute. To learn more about the Rebbe visit: InspiringAGeneration.org
Rabbi Slavaticki Relates:
“I first met Daniel at the Chabad House when someone brought him over for a visit. A tall young man, with a refined and intelligent face, he worked in computer operations for the European Common Market. Sometimes it can take weeks, months, or even years until two people make a connection. Other times the connection is made instantly. It might have something to do with gilgulim (past lives) or the celestial source of souls. Whatever the case, we hit it off at once.
Daniel loved to learn and expressed interest in the deepest concepts in Chasidus. With his quick mind and unusual sensitivity he absorbed everything; he could bring the highest, most abstract concepts down into the practical and relate them to the world and people around him. Most importantly, however, was the way Chasidus changed him. A new world had suddenly opened up. Daniel began to understand himself better and find answers to his questions. Within a short time he was laying tefillin, keeping kosher, and observing Shabbos.
NEW YORK, NY [NY1] — The council passed a bill Wednesday making it illegal to idle outside schools for more than 60 seconds.
Elsewhere, trucks and cars are allowed to idle for up to three minutes.
“Kids” Magazine Pesach Issue at Half Price!!
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Rabbi Cunin and West Coast Chabad Lubavitch have partnered with the Tzivos Hashem “KIDS” Magazine to offer a most amazing deal!
The “KIDS” Magazine is published in 11 languages and has been reaching hundreds of thousands of TODAY’S Jewish kids around the world like nothing ever has!!!
This Magazine was formed When Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch realized the challenge of reaching today’s unaffiliated Jewish youth, hand he as underwritten half the production cost of the magazine and made it possible for Tzivos Hashem to produce the high quality product that is the “KIDS” Magazine.
BROOKLYN, NY — The holiday was kosher, but the return trip was a nightmare for one Brooklyn Heights congregation, which lost a sacred Torah in a car break-in on Sunday night.
Cops say that a thief stole one of Congregation B’nai Avraham’s hand-written religious scrolls from a car parked in Crown Heights.
This weeks Living Torah Rebbe video is ‘Never Too Young to Shine’. Remember, Living Torah is a member supported project. Become a member today at www.LivingTorah.org!
Also available with Hebrew, French, Russian and Spanish subtitles in the Extended Article.
SHERMAN OAKS, CA [CHI] — “When I say Bat you say Mitzvah”, “Bat” “Mitzvah” “Bat” “Mitzvah”. Those were the chants heard in the streets of Sherman Oaks this past Shabbos from the Bat Mitzvah Clubs of Chatsworth, Los Feliz, Sherman Oaks, and Simcha Monica, as they joined together for an unbelievable Shabbaton experience. For many, it was their first time observing Shabbos. No cell phones, T.V’s, or Nintendo’s, just bonding time with other Jewish girls.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
We would like to wish Mazal Tov to Dudi and Chana Mushka (nee Wolvovsky) Abergal on the birth of their first born daughter.
May the newborn be a source of Nachas to her parents, grandparents and Klal Yisroel!
WASHINGTON DC [NY1] — U.S. Postmaster General John Potter says the post office’s financial situation could force the agency to cut a full day out of mail delivery each week. NY1’s Anthony Pascale filed the following report.
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ [CHI] — “It’s been well deserved” said one of the participants of this long awaited Shabbaton, as 10 students of Lubavitcher Yeshivah’s Unit Chitas packed a van for Atlantic City on Friday morning.
More pictures in the Extended Article!
DUBUQUE, IA [KCRG] — The former head of the Agriprocessors kosher meatpacking plant in Postville is out of jail.
Sholom Rubashkin posted bail a day after a judge set it at $500,000 dollars.
I would like to wish a very hearty Mazal Tov! Mazal Tov! to a dear friend Mendy (ben Yehuda) Hershkop (Crown Heights) on his engagement to Chiena (bas Moshe) Borenstein (Crown Heights) !
The L’Chaim will IYH be Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva, 570 Crown St, [hall entrance on Albany Ave].
CANTERBURY, New Zealand [NZPA] — A Christchurch rabbi is battling efforts to autopsy an Israeli hiker whose body was found near the Mueller Glacier in the Southern Alps.
Rabbi Menachem Goldstein, director of the Jewish Chabad-Lubavitch sect in New Zealand, has been acting as a liaison between local officials and the Israeli Embassy in Australia.
S DIEGO, CA — The San Diego City Council cleared the way yesterday for an expansion of the Chabad Educational Campus in Scripps Miramar Ranch.
Plans for the campus, at 10785 Pomerado Road, include a high school and college that will require new buildings, sports facilities and 280 housing units for students and faculty.
SDEROT, Israel — After years of enduring Kassam attacks from Gaza, Sderot’s hesder yeshiva plans to consecrate on Thursday a specially-built, rocket-proof beit midrash, or study hall, the first of its kind ever erected in Israel.
In honor of the release of Rabbi Sholom Rubashkin, a song has been given out from the Archives of Mordechai Ben David, a song with the theme of “G-D frees and redeemed his Captives” the song is performed by Mordechai Ben David and Shlomo Simcha in Teal Aviv.
