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4,000 Teens Fired Up at Uplifting Concert and Midnight Selichos
A massive pre-Tishrei gathering brought 4,000 teens together for interactive Jewish challenges, inspirational messages, and a spectacular concert featuring popular Israeli singers and performers, before concluding with an emotional midnight Selichos.
New Federal Proposal to Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parenting
A proposed federal rule could allow married families with a stay-at-home parent to receive child care subsidies, potentially providing financial relief to many frum and Anash families who choose to have a parent home with young children. For decades, the Rebbe emphasized the vital role of Jewish women in raising, nurturing, and educating their children.
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Shechting Kaporos Only to Throw Them Away?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including shechting kaporos without kashering them, when to take three steps before shemone esrei, and taking a tefilas haderech keychain into the bathroom.
Hundreds Pack the Rebbe’s Shul in Paris for Selichos
First Legal-Tender Coin Featuring the Rebbe Issued
Exiting the Ohel, Chicagoans Handed Dollars from the Rebbe
International Shochet Leads Shechita Presentation at Aliya
Students in Nebraska, South Korea and Beyond Begin School Together
MAZAL TOV
Moscow’s Marina Roscha Awakens for First Selichos
Hundreds gathered at Moscow’s central Marina Roscha Synagogue for a late-night farbrengen followed by the first Selichos, led by Rabbi Elazar Mordechai Koenig.
‘Tomim’ Event Sets Hundreds Up for Yeshiva Success
At a powerful opening event launching the yearlong “Tomim” program, 450 talmidim from across Eretz Yisroel preparing to enter yeshiva ketana heard from roshei yeshiva and mashpiim on how to make the transition into Tomchei Temimim and succeed in their crucial first year.
200 Spend Shabbos Selichos in Lubavitch Village
Two hundred yungeleit, bochurim, and mekuravim traveled to the historic village of Lubavitch for an uplifting Shabbos culminating in the first Selichos near the Ohel.
Rare Recordings of Legendary Chabad Chazan Emerge
An early tomim and legendary chazan in America, Reb Shmuel Kantarof was a member of Agudas Chassidei Chabad and one of the founders of Nichoach. Two recordings of his chazanus were recently made available.
Mrs. Hadassa Carlebach, 99, AH
Mrs. Haddasa Miriam Carlebach, the matriarch to a large Chabad family who was a second cousin of the Rebbe and had a close relationship with the Rebbetzin, passed away on Sunday, 24 Elul.
Miami’s LEC Welcomes 2,500 Students With 2 New Buildings
Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center launched the new school year welcoming 2,500 students into six buildings across five campuses, including two newly acquired facilities, marking a major milestone in the institution’s rapid growth.
First Selichos Recited in the Rebbe’s House
A large crowd of Anash and guests gathered in the Rebbe’s house for the first selichos on Motzaei Shabbos, including a notable group from Russia led by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Boca Raton Shliach’s Album Inspired by the Rebbe’s Tekiyos
Songs we know and love, prayers passed down through generations, and a piece of the Rebbe’s own tekiyos, all captured to help families prepare for the High Holidays.
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A Holy Jew Lived in Shanghai: The Remarkable Life of Harav Meir Ashkenazi – II
Part two of the series about the fascinating and colorful story of Harav Meir Ashkenazi of Shanghai traces his response to the Holocaust, post-war communal activism, visit to Eretz Yisrael and America, and his final years in New York as the rov and father figure of the international Shanghai diaspora.
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Animated Film Brings Shofar’s Wake-Up Call to Life
A new animated short film by Sydney-based educator Rabbi Chaim Y. Munitz, takes a simple mashal about a village fire and turns it into a visual lesson about the message of the shofar.
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Drinking Water Before Running?
Ask the Rov: Does one make a bracha on water drunk before running? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Oven Turned Off and On: Bishul Yisroel?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including behind during selichos, oven relit by a non-Jew, and guidelines for repurposing a church to be a Shul.
Unmarried Man as a Teacher?
Ask the Rov: How may an unmarried man serve as a teacher or tutor? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Tickling Someone in the Ear with Tzitzis?
Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including bringing tefillin into the mikvah, missed kapitlach before Boruch She'omar on Shabbos, and tickling someone in the ear with tzitzis.
How Do I Toivel a Keurig?
In this week’s episode of Lemaan Yishmeu, Rabbi Yosef Braun addresses intriguing halachic questions on a wide range of practical topics — real questions that have come to his desk, along with his clear and insightful responses.
Rice: Three Brachos or One?
Ask the Rov: Which bracha do we make on rice? Rabbi Chaim Hillel Raskin responds.
Inspiration
Riga, Brownsville, Crown Heights: Rosh Hashanah with the Frierdiker Rebbe
As we approach Rosh Hashanah, From the Margins of Chabad History presents contemporary accounts of Rosh Hashanah with the Frierdiker Rebbe in Riga, Brownsville, and Crown Heights. A letter of Rosh Hashanah berachos from the Frierdiker Rebbe to American Jews is also published here, for the first time.
OBITUARIES
Alexander Ruvinov, 85, AH
Alexander Ruvinov, a longtime resident of Kensington, New York, passed away on Monday, 18 Elul.
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Heritage Quest Ends, But Teens’ Global Impact Has Just Begun
Campus Shluchos Gather in DC for First-Ever JewishU Growth Summit
