Following the powerful opening shiur of the annual Taharas Habayis’ review with Rabbi Yisroel Fried, Shliach, Upper Westside Manhattan, many yungerlait gathered this past Wednesday evening for the second installment featuring Rabbi Yossef Yeshaya Braun , Mara D’asra and member of the Badatz of Crown Heights.
This past Shabbat, the city experienced an extraordinary event as some two hundred city rabbis and Chabad shluchim from all across Russia and the former CIS countries gathered for the regional “Kinus Hashluchim.”
At a festive ceremony held over the weekend, the “Tomchei Temimim – Beit Binyamin” Yeshiva was officially inaugurated in the Jewish village of Anatevka on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. Rabbis, supporters, and guests from several countries attended the event to mark the completion of one of the most significant Jewish educational projects established in Ukraine in recent years.
This week, Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Morristown celebrated three major siyumim completed by two bochurim and one member of the hanhala.
Hundreds of women participated last Wednesday in the prestigious annual dinner of the “Niflaos Giborot” organization, held at Beis Zlata Hall in Kfar Chabad in support of widows in their senior years.
The Sefer Torah was generously donated by the Arabov family L’iluy Nishmans their beloved father, Nissan ben Yechiel ע״ה. All was arranged by the dedicated Menahel Gashmi, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Sholomo Baruch , ensuring every detail reflected the dignity and simcha befitting such a historic occasion.
For the second consecutive year, the Kinus will be held on location, this time hosted by Aishel House, at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, led by Rabbi Lazer and Rochel Lazaroff, following last year’s gathering in Florida in partnership with Healing Hearts, which drew approximately 50 participants involved in hospital shlichus and chaplaincy work.
In a historic milestone for Central Yeshiva Tomchei Tmimim, 70 of the nearly 100 talmidim currently enrolled in the Dayanus program were recently tested successfully on Hilchos Shabbos, marking the largest group since the Rebbe initiated the program at the yeshiva in 5736.
Rabbonim, Mashpiyim, and public figures praised the dedication of the minyan members, who have faithfully visited the holy site day in and day out since the initiative was renewed by the Rebbe 36 years ago.
The Kinus will take place this summer, IY”H, Tuesday and Wednesday, 14–15 Av (July 28–29), at the Armon Hotel in Stamford, Connecticut.
A Kinus Torah was held in honor of Isru Hag Shavuot at Beth Haya Mouchka in Paris’s 19th arrondissement. The evening was rich in Torah and inspiration.
Hundreds of community members, guests, local dignitaries, and students from the city’s Or Menachem Jewish educational institutions joined the festive procession, which made its way through the streets accompanied by live music, singing, and dancing.
This year marked an especially ambitious milestone as the Yeshiva launched its “Double 70,000” campaign, setting a bold goal of two times 70,000 lines of Tanya Baal Peh and two times 70,000 lines of Mishnayos Baal Peh, totaling an unprecedented 280,000 line target in honor of 70 years of Oholei Torah.
The Jewish Federation of Greater Orange County partnered with Chabad of Orange County, led by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston, to host the event in the Chabad Center in Monroe. The event offered a heartfelt opportunity to hear firsthand about courage, faith, and rebuilding after unimaginable loss.
Led by Chabad’s Jewish Relief Network Ukraine (JRNU), local production lines have been specially prepared to produce tens of thousands of kosher ice creams and a wide range of dairy products for distribution in more than 50 Jewish communities across the country.
It is forbidden on a holiday to do any act in preparation for the following day, even if the following day is Shabbat. However, the sages created a halachic device, called an eruv tavshilin, which allows one to cook food on a holiday day for use on a Shabbat that immediately follows it.
In preparation for Shavuos, the OTMC – Oholei Torah Mothers Committee brought a special hands-on activity to the Cheder classrooms, filling the Yeshiva with excitement and creativity.
