Following the Rebbe’s directive to hold a Kinus Torah after Yom Tov, Anash and bochurim in Montreal gathered at the Yagdil Torah center for a wide array of shiurim on interesting topics.

A group of Askonim and Shluchim led by director Rabbi Gedalya Shemtov are leading the annual fundraiser for the Shluchim Office which will take place this Tuesday, 12 Sivan.

A daily cycle of learning 3 pages of the Alter Rebbe’s Shulchan Aruch will have you finished chelek alef in 8 months. The new cycle begins on Monday.

War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Fifty Four: Day of mourning in Israel, as the names of 10 soldiers were released today of the twelve killed since Shabbos, IDF Spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari gave a long statement in English addressing Hezbollah’s attacks on Israel, and warning of what is to come, and Israel announced a daily tactical pause to enable aid delivery to Gaza.

“The Jewish History Shmooze” podcast released the newest episode, taking a deep dive into the start of Jewish education for women in the 1900s.

The Kotlarsky family announces plans to build a brand new welcome center in Crown Heights for the thousands of balebatim who visit each year, and the opening of a brand new Keren to assist Shluchim in need.

A group of boys in Kitah Vov and Zayin at Cheder Chabad Toronto produced a full-color 28-page magazine with stories, comics, and activities. Download here.

Set to tackle some of the most pressing concerns weighing upon our Chinuch system, the Chumash and Gemara champ program at the Monsey Cheder has far-reaching aims. Last week, 60 talmidim earned a special trip for their learning.

Significant efforts by International Shochet Rabbi Eliyahu Ezagui have led to the retrieval of Tanyas printed in Russia and Kyiv during the years 5751-5753 (1991-1993) to be brought to the Rebbe’s library.

Speaker Central of the Shluchim Office presents a new resource for bringing down a speaker for Chabad House events during the week of Gimmel Tammuz.

Seeing the need for structured learning among camp staff, a program was created that provides learning materials and monetary incentives to uplift the staff, and through them, their campers.

After half a year of learning hilchos shechita and preparing the knife, students at Machon Lemaan Yilmedu’s shechita program began hands-on practice for the actual shechita technique.

Despite many challenges, a Jewish soldier in Ukraine named Daniel was buried with a minyan and kaddish through the efforts of Rabbi Yonasan Markovitch, shliach and Chief Rabbi of Kyiv.

Join Live on Sunday at 1:30 PM: Kollel L’Rabbonei Chabad and Kollel Dach will be presenting a Kinus Torah, addressed by Kollel members Rabbi Dovie Kivman, on tevila for a “pumpkin mug,” and Rabbi Yaakov Shallman and Rabbi Shneur Zalman Lipskier on Daas. 

War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Fifty Three: A group of eight soldiers in a vehicle heading back from a successful mission in Rafah were killed, Hamas and the PIJ launched rockets at Israeli civilian communities near the Gaza border three times today with one rocket landing in an open area near Kissufim causing a fire, and Reports that IDF intelligence monitoring systems were down the night leading up to October 7th.

With Shavuos falling on Wednesday, coinciding with the weekly opportunity for Jewish kids in public schools to learn about Yiddishkeit, Released Time proceeded as usual, but this time with the Bochurim walking on foot.

Ahead of the main Kinus Torah at 770 on Sunday, a start was held on Isru Chag, with a shiur by Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin of London on giving an electronic card to a non-Jew to open the door for you on Shabbos.

The matzeiva for Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos and shliach to the world, was installed today. Notably, it makes no mention of his vast accomplishments, but simply that he aspired to fulfill the Rebbe’s will.

As every year, on the day after Shavuos, a Hilula feast and farbrengen were held near the kever of Dovid Hamelech in the Old City of Yerushalayim, by the Colel Chabad Worldwide Tehillim group established by the Frierdiker Rebbe.

One night, the Rebbe mysteriously disappeared from 770, without even the Rebbetzin‘s knowledge. Only three people knew where the Rebbe went, and one of them finally discloses the story.