30 Years Since the ‘Surprise Farbrengen’

“I am eternally grateful to Chabad,” Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett was quoted as saying in an Arutz Sheva article published in February. “Thanks to Chabad of Montreal, my father, of blessed memory, and my mother and all of us became connected to Judaism” • Full Story 

Rabbi Gabriel Benayon, a Shliach in Panama city for eighteen years, released a book titled “From My Anxiety to Your Happiness”. In it he relates his personal journey through anxiety, obsessive thoughts and panic attacks • Full Story

Ra’am MK Saeed Alkharumi seems to have formed a habit of making threats. It began on Sunday morning when he threatened to oppose the new government due to his dissatisfaction with some parts of the coalition agreements regarding the Negev • Full Story

One Purim night, we were farbrenging and Reb Mendel came in. We asked him to say something and he said that later on in the Farbrengen, he will reveal a big secret that was taught in Tomchei Temimim in Lubavitch. He got up and said: “In Lubavitch it was taught: If you do not learn, you will not know anything”, and with those words he left the Farbrengen • Full Story