Tonight: Peace Plans & Pipe Dreams

A moving event took place in the Hyper Lipskar supermarket in Kfar Chabad last week. The store’s owner, Reb Zami Lipskar, explained that he called a technician he never used before to repair their bread machine. “Reb Yisrael Feldman, who works in our office, asked him if he wants to put on tefillin,” Reb Lipskar said. “The technician answered: ‘I’ve never put on tefillin in my life and I won’t start now. At my age, I don’t make changes” • Full Story

The Majeski (Crown Heights) and Carlebach (New Brunswick, NJ) families celebrated the L’Chaim of their children Shneur and Menucha last night in the JCM. Images captured by photographer Shmulik Reinitz • Photos

Workers were seen replacing a broken step outside the main entrance of Beis Chayenu in preparation for the thousands of Shluchim slated to swarm Crown Heights next week for the International Kinus Hashluchim. The work was overseen by Rabbis Chaim Baruch Halberstam and Yossi Rabkin. Photographer Dov Ber Hechtman was on site to snap several images of the process • Photos

On Sunday morning, family and friends of Duke University’s Jewish community gathered from all around the country to celebrate the Fleishman House’s ribbon cutting ceremony. The Fleishman House, formerly the King’s Daughters Inn, is located just off East Campus and will serve as the new home for Chabad at Duke University Undergrads. With three floors, a kitchen, 17 bedrooms and a 2,100 square-foot rooftop deck, Jewish students at Duke will have an official communal space to celebrate Shabbat and the High Holidays • Full Story