“Thursday morning hundreds of Bochurim and Children were seen milling around President Street, where they were all looking for their ‘Mitzvah Tanks’ and the group they will be sharing it with. The 59 Tanks, which correspond to the number of years of the Rebbe’s Nesius, were all lined up and ‘armed’ with Pesach Guides, Matzos, […]
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City’s ultra-Orthodox Jews are giving the Amish a walking tour of their world. Several dozen Amish residents from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, started the tour earlier Tuesday of Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood with members of the Hasidic Jewish community. Rabbi Beryl Epstein calls the tour “living Judaism.” The […]
Shemurah Matzah: [295] The Rebbe Shlita has asked everyone, especially rabbanim,shochatim and anyone else involved in communal activities, to endeavor to distribute round, hand-baked matzos specifically shemurah to their acquaintances, sufficient for at least both Sedarim. People organizing communal Sedarim, in hotels and the like, should also attend to this. [296]The […]
Seventh Day of Pesach:Rabbi Noson Arister (Shiur in Russian)
Moshiach’s Seudah, Acharon Shel Pesach, 5750
New Site www.AristerMP3.com
(Photo: Spencer Heyfron)
“What are you doing today?
BEN TZION TODRIN: We’re looking for Jewish people, doing mivtzoim. It’s translated as “outreach.” We ask men to put on tefillin or do another mitzvah, tzedakah. The women we give Shabbes candles.
How do you know if someone’s Jewish?
BTT: Most of the time I just ask everybody. ’Cause you […]
The Lubavitch rabbi of the Western Wall, Shmuel Rabinovitch, has said ahead of Pope Benedict XVI’s May visit to Israel that it is not proper to come to the holy site wearing a cross. He also opposes security arrangements that would prevent worshipers from reaching the Kotel. more@ColLive.com
Ukraine – Residents of the east Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk celebrated the inauguration of a memorial built in honor of Rabbi Levi Yitzhak Schneerson, the father of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson of righteous memory. Rabbi Levi Yitzhak served as the Chief Rabbi of Dnepropetrovsk (then known as Yekaterinoslav) from 1909 to 1939. […]
“Are you ready to get on the Purim party bus?” Rabbi Saadya Notik screamed Tuesday to a group of women, many in costume, standing on a sidewalk at Mount Holyoke College. The women rushed to the charter bus, a virtual nightclub on wheels, where neon lights pulsed, smoke billowed from underneath the seats and music […]
A group of students studiying at Ohr Temmim in Kfar Chabad have begun a great new initiative, translating the Rebbe’s Sichos to English. The Sichos are all selections which have never been translated previously. The Sichos will be available via Chabad.info on a weekly basis. Click Here to view the Parshas terumah edition. Chabad.Info
“Today marks 15 years since a Hasidic teenager was gunned down on the entrance ramp of the Brooklyn Bridge. On March 1, 1994, 16-year-old Ari Halberstam was one of 15 Yeshiva students heading to Brooklyn when Lebanese national Rashid Baz opened fire on their van. Halberstam was shot in the head and died five days […]
“In his last-known recorded speech, Rabbi David B. Hollander of the Hebrew Alliance-F.R.E.E. synagogue in the Brighton Beach neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., speaks about a unique language. Taking the microphone at the groundbreaking of his synagogue’s new building last Chanukah, Hollander tells the crowd that he would always ask which language he should use to […]
Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, wife of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Rarely in our times do we see such a unique combination of strength, courage and majesty as exhibited by these extraordinary woman. Facing modern challenges in defense and perpetuation of Judaism, the values and qualities they displayed provide […]
