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In this week’s collection of letters, the Rebbe responds to individuals who wrote to him about astrology, horoscopes, forecasting, making a raffle for a shidduch, suffering, anxiety, confusion, and more.

Jewish barber Slava Shushakova of Yonkers, NY, was attacked by an Islamic customer with the barber’s own scissors. Moderately injured, the barber ascribed his survival to the mezuzah on his shop affixed by Yonkers shliach Rabbi Mendy Hurwitz.

When a man’s final request was to be buried in a simple pine box in Rural Saskatchewan, his non-Jewish sister-in-law happened to call a rabbi. After much effort, he was laid to rest in a Jewish cemetery that matched that description, the first person to be buried there in more than 70 years.

War Summary, Day 334-335: Hostages were held in a tunnel under a child’s bedroom, Egypt pushing for IDF withdrawal from Rafah, U.S. senior administration official reveals proposal details including heavy concessions, IDF targets terrorists in the humanitarian zone, 200 terrorists eliminated in Tel Sultan, rocket fire in the north, and notorious terrorist eliminated in Tubas.

After terrible attack on Poltava that killed 50 civilians, two mohalim traveled over 24 hours to perform brisim on one baby and three adults, who refused to be hindered by the hostile events, and proceeded with the courageous act of displaying their Yiddishkeit proudly.

The new school year began at the Shne-Or Institutions in Aubervilliers, France, amid pomp and celebration with balloons, a photo prop school bus, a rider on a white horse, and a walking siddur.

As the sun set over the Western Wall, casting a deep red glow across the ancient stones of the Old City, Esti from Riga, Latvia, stood in awe. At 17, she had never imagined she’d be here, singing together with thousands of other Jews as they welcomed the Shabbos together.

Rebbetzin Devorah Groner, who together with her husband, Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Groner, served at the helm of the Jewish community in Melbourne for almost 60 years, tells the story of their move to Australia and becoming established there.

Residents of Crown Heights came out to accompany R’ Moshe Habosha, a longtime Crown Heights resident, who passed away on Beis Elul.

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Having graduated Cheder, talmidim of Oholei Torah Mechina proudly entered their Troy Ave Zal ready to learn and grow in preparing for their yeshiva life.

With tourists from around the world at Chabad of Rhodes, Greece, visiting bochurim pulled off a Tanya printing in just one day, which was attended by men, women, and children, from a wide spectrum of Jewish backgrounds.

Following the annulment of the draft exemption for Yeshiva students by Israel’s Supreme Court and uncertainty about what will result, leading mashpiim in Eretz Yisroel are instructing bochurim to avoid the draft office, and not to leave the country if they received a notice even if means not traveling to New York for Tishrei.

Mordechai Lubecki, a Lubavitcher Photographer from Paris who travels the world, was attacked last night in Sofia, Bulgaria, by a man who threatened him with a knife and stole his yarmulka, while shouting “Hitler” at him.

At the bar mitzvah of Mordechai Tenenboim of Hewlett, Long Island, son of shliach Rabbi Nochem Tenenboim, a special teshura was published which tells the life story of Rabbi Mordechai Mentlik, after whom the bar mitzvah bochur is named.

A timely and relevant class highlighting the Rebbe’s insight into a past wars that Eretz Yisroel fought to gradually weaken their enemies was taught this past week by over 2,000 shluchim around the world.

Gallery 2: The first day of the new school year at Oholei Torah had the talmidim excited to meet their classmates and teachers and to resume their Torah learning.

The first day of the new school year at Oholei Torah had the talmidim excited to meet their classmates and teachers and to resume their Torah learning.

A tefillin campaign in Budapest run by a group of bochurim from the Brunoy Yeshiva attracted hundreds of locals and tourists across the city and near the famous ‘Shoes on the Danube Bank’ Holocaust memorial.