A new youth center and shul was dedicated this week in Beitar Illit in memory of Rabbi Zvi Kogan Hy”d, the Chabad shliach in the UAE who was murdered last year.

Parents, grandparents and hanhala gathered Sunday as YTTL Queens celebrated its Mesivta graduation, together with 15 bochurim who completed and were tested on the entire Maseches Bava Kama.

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.

Chabad of the Upper East Side and the historic Park East Synagogue announced Friday a broad new partnership that will bring Chabad’s rabbinic leadership and a number of its growing programs into the 136-year-old congregation.

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.