Charter Flight Sings R’ Levik’s Niggun

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The excitement in the plane was palpable. The hundreds of chassidim travelling to be near the Rebbe’s father in their excitement began to sing the famous niggun of Reb Levik. The flight will soon land in Almaty, making way for an inspirational trip that they will never forget • Video

Sefer Torah in Memory of Levi Heintz OBM

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Levi Yitzchak Heintz OBM always brought joy and laughter around him. He always surrounded himself with friends and reflected good back into the world with a smile, a kind word, or a helping hand. To best honor him and his legacy his friends and family have undertakin writing a Sefer Torah in his memory • Full Story, Donate

Due to Increased Enrollment, Additional Classes at Lemaan Yilmedu

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At Machon Limud Halacha Lemaan Yilmedu, preparation is underway for the start of the new semester, in less than a month, in the middle of Elul. In view of increased demand and since classes have filled up quickly, the hanhala of the Machon decided to open additional classes • Full Story

Charter Flight Departs to Reb Levik

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A charter plane full of chassidim, organized by Rabbi Moshe Pinson and Dovid Rogatsky of Beis Shmuel Shul in Crown Heights, departed JFK to spend the auspicious day of Chof Av, the yahrtzeit of the Rebbe’s father, by the Ohel in Almaty, Kazakhstan • Photos

Final Surfside Victim Identified

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The final victim of the condo building collapse in Florida has been identified, more than a month after the middle-of-the-night catastrophe that ultimately claimed 98 lives. Estelle Hedaya, an outgoing 54-year-old with a love of travel, was the last to be identified, ending what her relatives described as a torturous four-week wait • Full Story

City Named For Anti-Semite Gets Jewish Center

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The Jewish community of Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine, has announced the establishment of a new modern Children’s Development Center to open at the beginning of the upcoming academic year. It will serve the city and surrounding region’s Jewish community • Full Story, Photos

Rebbetzin’s Housekeeper Donates to Kazakhstan

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In connection with their yearly fundraising campaign, Chabad of Kazakhstan released a special publication touting the various successes of the moisad over the previous year. The Cohen family of Crown Heights were one of the places people could donate. Not long before Shabbos they received a phone call from an African American woman, interested in contributing to the campaign • Full Story

Lieberman Excited About Kashrus Reform

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In an interview with Haaretz last week, Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana said that when he informed Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman about the kashrus reforms he intends on implementing: “he almost fainted from excitement” • Full Story

Springfield’s New Torah Receives Broad Media Coverage

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“This is a real historic day,” said Rabbi Mendy Turen, Director of Chabad of Springfield, Illinois. “It’s hard to put into words the feeling, but in Judaism, the Torah is the centerpiece and to be able to write our own Torah is an amazing opportunity. It means so much • Full Story

Heavily Contested Jewish Outpost Firebombed

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Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionism party, tweeted about the incident, saying, “Where is the government’s promise of military protection once the residents [of Evyatar] left? Their promises were written in frost and are melting in the fire” • Full Story

A Bris Milah in Alma Ata in Honor of R’ Levik

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A group of bochurim arrived in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan to learn in the vicinity of R’ Levik’s resting place. During the shabbos farbrengen, a young man decided that it was time to join the bris of Avrohom Avinu • Full Story, Photos

Beloved Shliach Honored With New Mitzvah Tank

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Yesterday, ChabadInfo.com reported on the grand Siyum Sefer Torah in Lauderhill, Florida’s Beis Moshiach Center, completing a Torah written in memory of the center’s founder, Rabbi Motti Anati OBM. At the event, a beautiful, state of the art mitzvah tank pulled up to where the crowd gathered, and was also inaugurated with the placing of a mezuzah on its main door • Photos

Crimea’s New Sefer Torah Inaugurated With Pomp

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The development of Judaism in the Crimea was impressively shown off during the inauguration of a new Sefer Torah, brought to the synagogue in the city of Simferopol. Shliach Rabbi Yechezkel Lazar has brought about a Jewish renaissance to the Black Sea enclave since arriving with his family four years ago • Full Story, Photos

45 Mechanchim Complete Intensive Training School

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When the school doors closed for summer vacation a few weeks ago, forty-five teachers looked forward to beginning a unique summer school—Igud Hamelamdim’s teacher training school, which was held for its seventh consecutive season, this year, from 18 Tammuz through 5 Menachem Av • Full Story, Photos

Today You Can Choose To Be Blessed With Abundance!

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The Chof Menachem Av fundraiser is in full swing and you have the opportunity to merit brochos and yeshuos “up to 500 times that amount!” • This is how the legacy of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok, who was moser nefesh to spread Yiddishkeit, continues • Full Story, Doante

Sefer Torah Completed in Memory of Legendary Shliach

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Last Wednesday, 11 Menachem Av, over 1,000 people joined to celebrate the completion of a Sefer Torah, written in memory of Rabbi Mordechai Anati, founder of Beis Moshiach Center in Lauderhill, Florida, donated by his son-in-law and daughter R’ Aryeh and Mrs. Chana Gayer • Full Story, Photos

Alma Ata Welcomes Yearly Yeshivas Kayitz

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As every year, the Rebbe MH”M’s Shluchim in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan are currently hosting an eclectic group of bochurim who have come to the city to learn and daven in the daled amos of the resting place of the Rebbe’s father, Horav Levi Yitzchok Shneerson. The talmidim spent an uplifting Shabbos, together with other guests and locals, to prepare for the auspicious day of Chof Av • Full Story, Photos

Prestigious Russian University Opens Jewish Studies Center

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Kazan Federal University and the local Jewish community join forces in a new partnership. First of its kind Center for Jewish Studies will open this year at KFU, one of the oldest, largest and most prestigious Russian universities. This is a great gift for the Jewish community of Kazan and for the entire Republic of Tatarstan, revealed the Chief Rabbi of Tatarstan Yitzhak Gorelik • Full Story, Photos