During the final week of the Knesset’s summer session, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Wilhelm distributed Tanya Hasholeim sets to remaining lawmakers from across the political spectrum, continuing a project guided until his final days by Harav Tuvia Blau.

Kidnapped at age seven and freed by ‘Chevras Techiyas Hameisim,’ R. Yisrael Nachman Mariasin became a devout chossid, a talmid of R. Hillel Paritcher, and ultimately, the Rebbe Rashab‘s gabbai for yechidus.

New York State has approved the first cholov Yisroel infant formula for purchase through the WIC program, a move that could affect tens of thousands of frum families across the state.

Mrs. Miriam Meijers, who served on Shlichus in Amsterdam for decades alongside her husband, Rabbi Eliezer Daniel Meijers, the first Shliach sent by the Rebbe to settle in the Netherlands, passed away on Friday, Chof Daled Av.

R’ Shabtai Katash, chairman of the religious council in Lod and a Lubavitcher chossid, is set to enter the Knesset as a Likud representative, replacing MK Dan Iluz. “The Rebbe guided us toward achdus. The shlichus of Chabad chassidim is to reach every Yid, without checking which sector he comes from. In the Knesset too, I see shlichus, to connect between parts of the nation and not to deepen the disagreements,” he said.

While strongly encouraging mivtzoim, the Rebbe also cautioned that not every setting was appropriate for every person. When bochurim found an opportunity near a resort, the Rebbe reprimanded them.

The graduating Shiur Gimmel at Moscow’s central Yeshiva Ketana celebrated the completion of three years of learning at an uplifting ceremony on the Istra campus outside Moscow, with each talmid receiving a personalized Chitas and certificate of recognition.

24 Av is the yahrzeit of the gaon and chassid Reb Avrum Hersh Cohen, who was known for his dedication to the study of Torah and his hiskashrus to the Rebbe.