With many families in the country for the weekend, the streets and shops of Crown Heights were noticeably emptier on Friday, as residents and guests prepared for Shabbos Parshas Devarim.

Download and print for your Shabbos reading pleasure: The Anash.org Shabbos Digest presents the top stories, commentary, opinions and columns from the past week, in a print-friendly format.

As we prepare to mark Shabbos Chazon, A Chassidisher Derher presents for the first time in English—a vivid description of Shabbos Chazon and Tisha B’Av with the Rebbe in 5742 (1982). In these diary entries of Aharon Kurant, we get a sense of life around the Rebbe during this time of year.

Mrs. Eydleh Blum (nee Lewin) a beloved mother and grandmother from Paris, France, passed away on Thursday, 2 Av, 5783.

A Tefillin stand, run every Friday by yeshiva students in the city of Nes Tziona, south of Tel Aviv, was attacked on Friday by a passerby who threw an egg at the stand and the bochurim who were running it.

As the sun begins to set in the Holy Land, the three hundred Jewish teens experiencing Israel this summer with CTeen gathered for group photos at various iconic sites across the land. 

The UK’s annual Kinus, which had been on hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, reconvened this year at a hotel in Warwickshire, marking the first gathering in four years. The conference celebrated the twenty-one new centers opened in the past few years.

The 90th birthday of Rabbi Berel Shemtov, head shliach to Michigan, was marked this week with a lively farbrengen joined by family members, both in-person and virtually.

After Learning together all year virtually, the young shluchim in the European online school enjoy an in-person camp for the first time ever.

A brazen bike thief shamelessly paraded his stolen loot in front of the owners. What he didn’t take into account, was that this one mother wasn’t going to take the injustice against her child sitting down.

During his visit to Australia, Reb Dovid Nachson celebrated his birthday with a farbrengen for the bochurim and shluchim in Yeshiva Gedola Melbourne (YG).

The heartbreaking levaya of Chaim Sarchi, a young father from Johannesburg who was a dedicated Hatzalah member, included a moving tribute from his colleagues, who issued one final Hatzalah call for him.

The shloshim of R’ Yehuda Zev Gottesman, a longtime resident of Montreal, Canada was marked on Wednesday with an evening of inspiration and a chassidishe farbrengen.

Rabbi Nissan Dovid Dubov of Chabad Wimbledon published ‘One’ – a small booklet now available in 8 languages that presents the Noahide code as a set of universal laws and common moral denominator for all people.

Two brisim were celebrated at the Chabad of Poland Refugee Summer Camp in Warsaw, Poland. The ceremonies were led by Chabad of Poland Director Rabbi Shalom Ber Stambler and brought great excitement to the camp.

The inaugural summer of Yeshivas Kayitz in Coral Springs has been an amazing success. On Thursday, bochurim and staff stood together for a group photo.

Register by this Monday to guarantee your spot for Chof Av in Almaty. Join this once-in-a-lifetime experience with Yidden from across the globe to honor the Rebbe’s father on his Yahrtzeit. 

An enthusiastic gathering of bochurim from Mesivta Thornhill, Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto, hanhala families, and Toronto community members joyously welcomed a new Torah at the Yeshivas Kayitz in Star Lake.

After Anash.org published the miraculous story of the Gutovich family and their new quadruplets, many reached out asking how they can help. Now, a fund to help alleviate costs will give that opportunity.

Hundreds of young kids from several Jewish day camps in Washington State joined on Wednesday for a unity grand trip and celebration in Seattle in honor of Hakhel

Harav Avrohom Osdoba, a member of Crown Heights Beis Din, made a siyum Wednesday night in 770 on Maseches Bava Kama, followed by a lengthy hadran.