Summer is in full swing. Many of us are taking the time to take family trips and enjoy the beautiful outdoors and cultural sites. One of the special attractions that used to be part of the Cincinnati skyline was the 150 foot Ferris wheel that was downtown between the years 2018 and 2020… Rabbi Gerson Avtzon writes in The American Israelite • Full Article

Rabbi Aaron Lipskar is the CEO of the Aleph Institute. Since its founding in 1981, Aleph has been in touch with thousands of people affected by incarceration. Aleph’s mission, that no one ever feel alone or forgotten, also extends to the brave men and women fighting to defend our country overseas. Aleph helps isolated people and shattered families persevere, giving them hope to overcome their devastating circumstances • Watch

Rabbi Berel Pachter, a beloved mashpia in Brunoy, France, passed away on Tisha Be’av. His childhood friend, Rabbi Mikhael Dahan of Montreal recounts a poignant story in honor of the end of Shiva • Full Article

Op-Ed by Rabbi Gershon Avtzon: The summer is nearing an end and another school-year is set to begin. With each new year comes many positive resolutions and optimistic feelings that it is going to be a successful year for each student • Full Article

I am very impressed with the amount of knowledge that my children are learning and their intellectual skills that they are developing. I do not see an emphasis placed on basic derech eretz and I am told that these values are supposed to come from the home. Is that true or is the school supposed to partner with us in instilling these values? • Rabbi Gershon Avtzon answers in this week’s Chinuch and Moshiach column • Full Article

On the Chatting Rabbis podcast, a cross-Atlantic conversation between Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov of Munster, Indiana and Rabbi Mendy Chitrik of Istanbul, Turkey. An informative conversation about the ins and outs of the kashrus industry, especially how it relates to everyday life, both of a Chabad shliach and the average consumer • Listen

Michoel Muchnik grew up during the hippie movement and got swept up in the counterculture. Through a deep search for something more, he encountered the path of Judaism he now lives by. He uses art to communicate and portray some of his favorite Hassidc ideas • Watch

Op-ed By Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Cincinnati, Ohio: It is always during the summer that the “Talmidei Hashluchim List” is released and another group of enthusiastic and idealistic Talmidim will be sent to various Yeshivos all over the world on a very unique shlichus of the Rebbe: “Talmidim Hashluchim” • Full Article

On the Chatting Rabbis podcast, a cross-Atlantic conversation between Rabbi Eliezer Zalmanov of Munster, Indiana, and Rabbi Mendy Chitrik of Istanbul, Turkey. An important conversation about sending kids to camps, from the perspective of parents as well as Eliezer and Mendy’s own camp experiences as campers and counselors • Listen

Upon the 96th anniversary of the Previous Rebbe’s Redemption from the hands of the Communists • Full Article