UPDATE: Today: TEN Hachnosas Sifrai Torah in the USA

As the holiday of Shavuot approaches Shluchim seem to be taking the opportunity to welcome a new Sefar Torah into their Shuls and Chabad Houses.

Today, Sunday nine of the ten events will be taking place in Chabad Houses in Franklin Lakes, NJ, Allentown, PA, Hollywood, FL, Santa Fe, NM, Camarillo, CA, Plano, TX, Redondo Beach, CA and Plainview, Long Island along with one more dedication here in Crown Heights.

More details in the Extended Article!

Shomrim Return Missing Person on Friday Night

At around 2:00am on Friday night the Shomrim hotline received a call from a frantic mother saying that her son who’s 30 years old with a history of mental heath issues did not return home since leaving to Shul at 8:00pm.

A number of members responded and began grid searching the neighborhood on foot, and after a short 20 minutes they found him roaming the streets in the vicinity of 770. A Shomrim member wrapped him in his jacket and notified the other units that he had been found, and together they walked him home.

Seventh Consecutive Year of a Collective Hachana

As Gimmel Tammuz is rapidly approaching, 4,000 Talmidim in the Rebbe’s Yeshivos around the world, are uniting in an intense study cycle of Sichos and Maamorim to strengthen their connection to the Rebbe in preparation for the day, with the hope that very soon we will be reunited with the Rebbe leading us to the Geulah Shleimah.

More in the Extended Article.

“But what About the Jewish Soldiers Around the Corner?”

The following is In Connection with the forty years of the Rebbe’s Mivtza Tefillin. This is a tale about a gentle lad named Chaim Jacobs who came from England in the early ’60’s to study in 770 as told to Rabbi Ari Kirschenbaum – Shliach of the Rebbe to Prospect Heights Brooklyn by Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz, Rav Cong. Kol Israel of Prospect Heights.

The Tomorrow Show Debuts at the Jewish Children’s Museum

NY1 reporters Stephanie Simon and Shazia Kahn co-host a one-of-a-kind evening, joined by Jewish stars including Gershon Veroba, and the famous Judah the Maccabee, and featuring an exclusive interview with Avraham Fried to pay tribute to the Friendship Circle volunteers.

BROOKLYN, NY -– In appreciation for the teenage girls and boys who volunteer several hours every week to spend time with their special needs “friends,” the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Children’s Museum is hosting a volunteer appreciation dinner at the Jewish Children’s Museum. But this won’t be just any, ordinary dinner. This is going to be a night of fun and laughter that takes place in…a makeshift TV studio! In keeping with their mission to provide a better tomorrow for children with special needs, the Friendship Circle dinner will feature the “Tomorrow Show.” The “Tomorrow Show,” modeled after the Today Show, will be complete with a TV-set, hosts, guest speakers, commercials and more!

Full Posted in the Extended Article!