Young Jewish Professionals Find New Home in Pittsburgh’s East End

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The new space, centrally located in Pittsburgh’s East End, will be a spot for young professionals to get together on a regular basis, said Rabbi Henoch Rosenfeld. The CYP Loft is also available for meetings; in fact, two groups, the Chabad Young Business Network, and Women, Wine and Wisdom, have both started holding their meetings at the new location • Full Story, Photos

R”L! New Report Reveals Intermarriage Crisis in EY

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According to the report, it is the first time in years that official data on the number of intermarried couples in Israel has been published. The report indicates the extent of assimilation in Eretz Yisroel, a phenomenon that experts have been warning about in recent years • Full Story

Shliach Releases Statement on Eliyah Haliwa

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From Rabbi Yossi Lazaroff of Chabad at Texas A&M: The Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center at Texas A&M is open to all Jewish faculty and students to explore Judaism. In 2018 a student presenting himself as Eliyah Haliwa began visiting Chabad along with other local campus Jewish institutions (including serving as president at one of them). He would occasionally attend Shabbat meals at Chabad, and infrequently attended the services or Torah classes • Full Statement

SHOCKING: Newlywed Woman In NY Discovers Husband is Muslim

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A shocking story came to light on Sunday of a Jewish newlywed Sephardic woman in Brooklyn who recently discovered that her new husband, supposedly named Eliya, may not be a Lebanese Sephardi Jew as he claimed but possibly a Muslim Palestinian who may have lived in Beirut • Full Story, Photos

Posek: Gov’t’s Tour-Guide Course Includes Avoda Zara

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A precedent-setting halachic ruling by Hagaon Harav Yehudah Silman states that a G-d-fearing Jew cannot be an officially certified tour guide in Israel. The question was originally brought to Yad L’Achim by a chareidi man who was taking the Tourism Ministry’s course to become a licensed tour guide. He soon discovered that to receive his certification he would have to learn Christian theology in depth – raising concerns of idol worship • Full Story

Sadigura Rebbe Gifted Copy of New ‘Dvar Malchus’ Book

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As part of his campaign to spread the learning of Inyonei Geulah U’Moshiach, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Ezagui, together with Rabbi Shmuel Butler, visited the Sadigura Rebbe, who is currently on a visit to the United States, to gift him a copy of Rabbi Ezagui’s now well-known book ‘Dvar Malchus’. The book expounds on the Rebbe MH”M’s famous explanations on the Rambam’s Hilchos Melachim. The Sadigura Rebbe was also presented a book of the printed shiurim of R’ Yoel Kahan, OBM • Photos

EnerJew Makes Shabbat Accessible to FSU Youth

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Following its collaboration with the international ‘Shabbat Project’, EnerJew – the FSU’s Jewish youth movement – has created an outstanding and beautifully designed guidebook in contemporary Russian, explaining exactly how every person can easily and joyfully connect to his Jewish heritage and observe Shabbat. The new guide is now available to download for those who can utilize the beautiful Russian-language pamphlet • Full Story, Photos, Download

Newly Discovered Cemetery Contains Matriarch of Many Chabad Families

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A mammoth discovery was just made, impacting thousands of Chabad families. The ancient Jewish cemetery of Gagarin (formerly Gzhatsk), Russia, in the Smolensk region has been discovered and is in the process of being restored. Since 1848, the town of Gagarin, located around 110 miles from Moscow, has been steeped in a rich Chassidic culture and heritage. Gzhatsk, as it is still fondly referred to in Chassidic jargon, denotes more than a geographical location • Full Storu, Photos

Chabad Photographer Captures Beautiful NYC From Above

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Photographer Dov Ber Hechtman took advantage of an opportunity this past week to fly over New York City in a helicopter, capturing stunning images of the city that never sleeps • Photos

New Mitzvah Tank Hits the Streets of Toronto

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A new mitzvah tank hit the streets of Toronto this past week after being professionally wrapped, proudly and beautifully displaying the Rebbe’s picture, together with the 10 mivtzoim introduced by the Rebbe. The tank is operated by local Shluchim Rabbi Levi Yitzchok and Mrs. Sara Rabiski • Photos

At-Home Avos U’Banim to Start this Motzei Shabbos

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An innovative “Father and Son” program unites boys around the world in learning on Shabbos/Motzei Shabbos with their fathers and mastering their class study. A look back at last year reveals that close to one thousand boys in 35 yeshivos worldwide, took part in Igud Hamelamdim‘s revolutionary Avos Ubanim At-Home program, which caters to boys learning at home, as well as in their local shuls. The program is set to begin Motzei Shabbos Parshas Toldos • Full Details