This week’s collection of letters includes correspondence with President Ronald Reagan about Chai Elul and establishing a Jewish Day School in a small American town. An added teshura includes 15 letters from 1944 showing care for WWII soldiers, as well as a brief biography and letters to Max Schrieber, a philanthropist who oversaw the construction of over 300 Mikvaos.

Engage your children in the message of the times with the Rebbe’s teachings on Chai Elul brought to them in an engaging and inspiring way.

War Summary, Day 349: The IDF shot at 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers which were primed with around 1,000 barrels for immediate attacks on Israel, Israel offered a deal which would allow Yahya Sinwar a safe exit from Gaza in exchange for the release of all 101 hostages at once, and Americans no longer think a hostage deal is in the near future.

In honor of his 17th yartzeit on Yud Zayin Elul, watch this fascinating footage of the chossid R’ Meir Itkin a”h from Nevel celebrating his birthday with his close friend, R’ Yudel Chitrik a”h.

A brand new display with the various tables the Rebbe used over the years to distribute dollars, will be opened at the Rebbe’s Library in honor of Chai Elul, which marks 30 years of the exhibition hall.

As Achos Online begins its sixteenth year and the plans for this year are in the works, it is our privilege to invite all girls to join in a Chai Elul farbrengen with Rabbi Shimmy Weinbaum.

The revolution in the study of halacha, made available by Machon Lemaan Yilmedu, continues full force with the start of the fifth year, with 450 students beginning the new semester.

Hundreds of anash and friends came out to accompany the levaya of Mendel Bluming, the 15-year-old bochur who was struck by a car near his yeshiva. Shiva information inside.

Children from around the world were welcomed on their first day at the Nigri International Jewish Online School of the Shluchim Office, a sister-school of the Shluchim Online School is for all Jewish children from all walks of life.

In recent months, we’ve seen a wave of articles discussing the challenges of marriage and rising divorce rates in the Frum community. While every marriage has its own unique struggles, not every issue stems from the dramatic circumstances often described in these stories.

The Shluchim Office announces a new partnership with Kosher Graphics, giving Shluchim access to 2,500 flyer designs with an exclusive discount.

Only one week remains to purchase tickets for the Bayis Raffle, offering extraordinary prizes to support Hafotzas Hamayanos, including a framed dollar from the Rebbe and a rare bottle of undiluted Kos Shel Bracha from the Rebbe.

In a newly renovated campus with an expanded team of hanhala, the new zman began with great success at the Yeshiva Ketana of Moscow, just 4-5 hours from where the Rebbe Rashab established Tomchei Temimim 128 years ago.

Rabbi Levi Garelik‘s parents, Rabbi Gershon Mendel and Rebbetzin Bessie Garelik, wanted to go on shlichus, but the Rebbe wouldn’t send them due to Rabbi Garelik’s position at a yeshiva. Wanting to go very strongly, Rabbi Garelik got creative…

R’ Yosef Yechiel Lifshitz, a longtime resident of Crown Heights, passed away on Wednesday, 16 Elul.

Eight bochurim in the Buenos Aires yeshiva learned the entire Bava Basra by heart, and were tested over thirteen hours to recite it in one straight go. The yeshiva celebrated it with a grand melava malka and an on-stage Gemara chidon.

War Summary, Day 348: Hundreds of Hezbollah walkie-talkies explode across Lebanon, IDF chief says more surprises to come, Iran evacuates blinded ambassador and 90 more terrorists, four fallen heroes in Gaza and several injured, reserve generals and ministers push for the “General’s Plan” in Gaza, Gallant says center of gravity is shifting to the north, and strong signs of imminent ground maneuver in Lebanon as 98th Division is rerouted.

In honor of the new zman and the growing number of bochurim who are coming to learn in the Central Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva in 770, the hanhala announced on 15 Elul the appointment of 9 new hanhala members who will join the existing staff.

A new yeshiva “Hama’or Shebatorah” was established in Eretz Yisroel to cater to the growing number of “Poilisher” chassidim who have joined the Chabad Mayonei Yisroel community. The zman was opened by the community’s mashpiim, R’ Zalman Gopin and R’ Chaim Sholom Deitsch.

What was it like to spend a Shabbos in Lubavitch after the Rebbe Rashab founded Tomchei Temimim? For generations, Chassidim would journey to Lubavitch to spend a few uplifting days, weeks, or months with the Rebbe. But Tomchei Temimim changed everything.

A grand event marking the conclusion of the year-long Mivtza Torah was held in Brunoy Mesivta. Menahel R’ Itche Nemenov highlighted that it wasn’t just a ceremony to give out prizes, rather to energize and motivate the bochurim to learn Torah and Chassidus with Yiras Shomayim.

Hatomim Mendel Bluming, a bochur from Crown Heights who thousands davened for after he was critically struck by a speeding car near his yeshiva in Suffield, CT, sadly passed away this morning, Wednesday, 15 Elul.