ChabadInfo.com wishes you a good Shabbos! Above are Shabbos times for five major Lubavitch communities. Consider joining one of the “ChabadInfo Updates” Whatsapp group in order to get vital information directly to your message inbox • Join
Over 12,000 people packed into Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens for a sold out concert by popular frum Israeli singer Ishay Ribo. The highly anticipated concert, part of a larger tour around North America, also included performances by Akiva Turgeman and Alex Claire. Images captured by ChabadInfo.com photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos
From the desk of Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, Director of Yehivas Lubavitch – Cincinnati: I’m from a group of Talmidim Hashluchim in a mainstream Chabad Mesivta. One of the programs that we organize is that the talmidim should learn different parts of Torah by heart. There is an inner debate amongst ourselves: Is it indeed useful that the students put in so much time memorizing? Perhaps they can use that time to learn other useful things. Did the Rebbe encourage this? If yes, what guidance did he give? • Click to Read
Uplifting and rousing moments, as well as ‘ordinary’ moments; this week 770 has been full of photogenic scenes, some of which have been captured for posterity through the lens of ChabadInfo.com Dov Ber Hechtman. Enjoy this week’s gallery of the week of Parshas Bechukosai in Beis Chayenu • Photos
Yad L’Achim immediately dispatched its people to the site to counter the missionaries and assist the refugees. This week, the organization reported that its campaign at the border has, so far, succeeded in saving 320 families, numbering 729 souls, from the missionaries • Full Story
Over 150 Jewish teenagers aged 12-14 participated this last weekend in a vibrant and energetic Shabbaton seminar, marking the conclusion of EnerJew’s UPGRADE Bar / Bat Mitzvah Project. The Shabbaton took place in Moscow and celebrated the teenagers’ big day • Full Story, Photos
Where does a Yid’s help come from? Maor KIDS presents another beautiful video of the Rebbe. To sign up for the ‘Kids Rebbe Video’ WhatsApp: 347-687-8770 or go to: MyMaor.org • Watch
A menorah on the lawn of the Chabad Jewish center at the University of Cincinnati was vandalized for the fourth time in several years, UC Chabad Rabbi Yitzi Creeger told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Footage of the latest incident was first shared by the watchdog group StopAntisemitsm, and shows a young man sporting a knapsack walking up to the menorah and toppling it before running away • Full Story
Senior IRGC official Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayari, who oversaw assassination and abduction operations against Israelis, Jews and others worldwide, was behind an attempt to assassinate Rabbi Schneur Segal, the Chabad shaliach in Baku, as well as the Israeli ambassador • Full Story
At times, the most phenomenal blessings of offspring, long life and livelihood descend into this world in a hidden manner. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for almost 90 days, wreaking havoc and despair throughout the country. The magnitude the catastrophe has yet to be revealed. However, some of the terrible results are already hitting close to home in Jewish communities across the country. Poverty and hunger has become common among huge swaths of the working age population, men and women who have lost their livelihood and incomes • Full Story, Photos
Bais Chabad has two major projects currently in the works. The Mallor Walder Community Mikvah Center, an approximately 2,500-square-foot facility, is about triple the space of the current mikvah and is expected to open this month or next. The congregation is also building a new playground adjacent to its building to serve children at Shabbat youth groups, Sunday religious school classes and summer day camps • Full Story, Video
Despite the fact that the coalition is teetering on its last legs and lacks a majority, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman continues to launch diabolical plans against religion, this time aiming to abolish religious councils across the country, it was revealed this week. Religious councils oversee religious services in cities and towns across Israel, including mikvaos, batei kevaros, and other religious matters, and in some cities, they also manage shuls and other religious centers • Full Story
Due to the sheer number of participants in the Chalukah of the Rebbe’s Torah in honor of Yud Alef Nissan – 120 years, an enormous amount of data, bli ayin hara, was collected by the website, detailing all the names and the units they chose. Upon the completion of compiling and organizing this information, the organizers were delighted to discover that this is the largest gift ever presented to the Rebbe in honor of a special jubilee! • Full Story
10,000 Yeshiva parents and graduates signed the ProtectChinuch.com petition in the last 72 hours. With the Jewish community at large still lacking its goal number, Protect Chinuch pledges to raise the goal. The tireless team at protectchinuch.com, comprised of proud yeshiva graduates and parents, are getting the word out. We must act now and speak out in defense of Torah-true Chinuch, and our way of life before it is too late • Full Story, Video
Renowned mashpia Rabbi Noam Wagner answers. To ask your own question or for more answers, visit StumptheRabbi.org • Watch
“Food is a medium that every person in this world has to be involved with it,” said Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, executive director of the center. “It doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter from what demographic you come from in society, you’ve got to eat food and food transcends all denominations, everything” • Full Story
In another decree aimed at Chareidim, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman is initiating huge cuts in Chareidi educational networks, Kan News reported on Monday evening. According to the report, Lieberman is seeking to implement reform in which institutions that don’t meet the requirements of the State’s core curriculum will lose a quarter of their budget, an amount estimated by the Finance Ministry to be billions of shekels • Full Story
Fifty-five years ago today, on the 24th of Iyar 5727-1967, the Rebbe launched the Tefillin campaign. Some questioned the benefit of putting on tefillin one time with a Jew who is not consistently mitzvah-observant, and bringing this “mivtza” to the streets. In this talk, the Rebbe addresses these issues. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
In a surprise announcement, a Jewish girl notified the social worker assigned to her by Yad L’Achim that she had decided to end her relationship with an Arab youth. The reason? The terror attack in Tel Aviv last month that killed three people • Full Story
2,500 people come out to celebrate together lag Ba`omer in the north part of Toronto. At the same time as 1,000 attended a simultaneous event in Toronto’s southern community, as smiling children had lots of fun, adults put on Tefilin and everyone enjoyed a great BBQ. The two events were coordinated by tens of local Shluchim, who came together in the merit or Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Full Story, Photos
Are you confused? You signed the petition and made a difference, but are you still trying to figure out what’s going on? Why are communities across the entire Torah spectrum, from Modern-Orthodox, Litvish, Chassidish, up in arms? What is the core issue we are protesting against? Find out what is really going on, why public noise is the answer right now, and what questions we should ask ourselves to prevent this in the future • Full Story, Video
The US has been brokering talks between Egypt and Saudia Arabia over the transfer of two Red Sea islands to the Saudis. However since the islands sit on the main exit route from the Red Sea towards Africa, the only route Israel has to travel from Eilat, the negotiations require Israel’s agreement as well. Israel hopes to achieve certain steps towards normalization with the Saudis as a result of the agreement • Full Story
At a rally in 770, Rabbi JJ Hecht leads the children in reciting the verses of Hareini and Ach Tzaddikim. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
Fifty years ago, Rabbi Shimon and Chiena Lazaroff arrived in Texas with little more than an ambitious Jewish vision and four children in a green station wagon. Following the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Lazaroff’s goal was to strengthen and grow Judaism in untapped territories • Full Story
Berel Grossbaum (Minnesota) to Chana Shmotkin (Detroit)
L’Chaim tonight in F.R.E.E.
Baby boy to: Shmuel and Esther Neft (nee Tyshenko) – Toronto.
Baby boy to: Menachem and Esty Sheinberger – Crown Heights
Baby girl to: Meir and Chanie Levinger (nee Richler) – Yerushalayim, Israel
