Matisyahu Samborsky, the adopted son of Rabbi Moshe Asman of Kyiv, Ukraine, was killed in the ongoing conflict with Russia. He was drafted into the army just one week after the birth of his daughter, and now leaves behind a wife and one year old daughter.

Oholei Torah Zal started the new zman with record enrollment and a new expanded staff to tend to the growing needs of the yeshiva.

Following a short summer break, Kollel Ahavas Achim in Empire Shteibel led by Rosh Kolel Rabbi Shmuel Heber will be restarting its daily learning in time for the month of Elul.

With the new school year approaching, the Hebrew division of the Shluchim Online School held in-person events for staff on the theme of “Uplifting Us,” focusing on how the Rebbe gives Chayus to those involved in this special mission of chinuch.

The Labor Day celebrations will begin at 6:00am on Monday morning, and the parade will start at 11:00 on Utica and Eastern Pkwy traveling west along Eastern Pkwy to Grand Army Plaza.

War Summary, Day 331: An estimated 300,000 Israelis gathered for a protest in Tel Aviv, and other areas around Israel, calling for a hostage trade deal to be made, three police officers were killed in a shooting attack this morning near Tarqumiyah, and the bomb-making lab which was used to produce the bombs in the two car-bombing attacks on Shabbos was found and demolished.

Campers and staff of Dovi’s CGI Florida gathered on the final Sunday of summer camp to celebrate over 64,000 lines of Torah at the 18th annual MBP Award ceremony, a gift to the Rebbe.

Not long after Rabbi Leibel and Chaya Shemtov moved to Traverse City, they embarked on an ambitious campaign to purchase a Chabad House to serve North Michigan’s Jewish residents. Last Sunday, community members gathered for the grand opening of the new center.

One of a shliach’s greatest joys is officiating at the wedding of a young couple about to embark on establishing their own Jewish home. This holy task is not undertaken lightly; it takes knowledge and training to be qualified to perform a marriage.

Students of the Moscow Mesivta spent a week near the Ohel in Alma-Ata, where they learned, farbrenged, and toured the region. They also toured special sites in Kazakhstan related to the Rebbe’s father’s life.

As the Brunoy Yeshiva takes a 10-day break, 20 bochurim traveled across Europe to Budapest, Prague, Rhodes, Venice, Rome, Valencia, Denmark, Spain, Vienna, Lugano, and London, to don tefillin on 770 people in merit of of Rabbi Shloimy Greenwald.

A bomb threat prompted the evacuation of a South Beach shul, after an envelope had handwritten lettering suggesting a bomb threat, was found in front of the building. Police inspected the building and gave the all-clear.

Members of the Minkowizt family, Rabbi Yitzchok and Meir Simcha Minkowicz of Southwest Florida and Rabbi Sholom Minkowicz and family, visited the soldiers, strengthening them with mitzvos and mezonos.

Hours after the IDF said it had located the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, the families confirmed that their loved ones were murdered in captivity, possibly even just a day or two before they were found in a tunnel beneath Rafah.

War Summary, Day 330: Two cars laded with explosives were stopped before being able to bomb civilian areas in the Shomron, the IDF confirmed that bodies were retrieved from Gaza but not yet identified and asked for the public to refrain from spreading rumors, and a top Hamas commander operating in Jenin was found and eliminated.

Heroes in the Forest, Part One: A group of soldiers camping out for Shabbos were miraculously spared death in ambush, “I felt a malach holding the fire back… made the fire and shrapnel stop right at our feet.”

This summer, Camp Yeka, nestled in the beautiful Carpathian Mountains, provided a life-changing Jewish camp experience for over 90 disadvantaged Jewish boys from Ukraine, offering them a much-needed break from the harsh realities of war.

War Summary, Day 328: Negotiations ongoing with Philadelphi still main point of contention, 70% of Hamas smuggling tunnels dismantled, Hamas has been falsifying data showing support amongst Gazans, Hezbollah appears deterred from expanding the conflict, Gallant begins move to focus on the north, Tulkarem terrorists had been planning large attack on nearby Jewish town, Houthis burn oil ship, and IDF reservists lose confidence in Chief-of-Staff.