As per the Rebbe MH”M’s instruction to hold kinusei Torah during Chol Hamoed, Toronto Anash gathered this evening in 770 Chabad Gate, the regional headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch, for a special kinus Torah. Among the speakers were both married bal habatim, as well as bochurim in town visiting for Pesach. The kinus was capped off by a special farbrengen from Rabbi Noam Wagner of South Africa • Photos, Video
The parade took place on Sunday, Beis Nissan, ahead of Yud Alef Nissan, when chassidim and Yidden around the world will mark 120 years since the Rebbe’s birth. It is a day of celebration, and a time to reflect on the tremendous impact the Rebbe has had on world Jewry over the last century. The parade was also dedicated in memory Meir Likhovetski obm. Images captured by photographer Sholom Brummel • Full Story, Photos
In Toronto, 14 Chabad houses are teaming up together to give the Rebbe a most fitting Matanah. On Beis Nissan – April 3 the entire Toronto Jewish community will be gifting the Rebbe with Toronto’s largest Mitzvah Tank parade , parading, giving Matzah and spreading the light of Passover to the entire Greater Toronto Area. This year’s 11 Nissan parade is in tribute to the memory of Meir Likhovetski • Full Story
Do you live in Canada? The Jewish Russian Community Centre of Ontario, under the auspices of longtime Shliach Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok Zaltzman, has opened up a new relief fund to help Shluchim under fire in Ukraine, enabling people from Canada to donate in their own currency • Full Story
With Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto celebrating 25 years, and rosh yeshiva Rabbi Akiva Wagner battling a terrible illness, students and alumni of the yeshiva have set out to share his burden, raising funds to allow the yeshiva to grow and expand • Full Story, Video
Sunday night marked the first night of Chanukah and in the Town of Georgina. The community came together to celebrate at the annual Menorah lighting that took place in Keswick organized by Chabad Jewish Centre of Georgina. Rabbi Yossi Vorovitch from Chabad of Georgina expressed to the crowd the teachings from the Rebbe MH”M that Chanukah symbolizes triumph of freedom over oppression, of spirit over matter, of light over darkness • Full Story, Photos
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
Baby girl to: Chagai and Dassie Meffi (nee Richler) – South Beach, FL