War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Twenty: Many reservists were told to report to positions in the north this week as war in Lebanon expected to commence imminently, the IDF advanced in Rafah as fighting intensifies in in northern Gaza as well, and Egypt and the US’s warnings of mass casualties if a war starts in Rafah were unfounded which leads many to suspect that Egypt has something to hide such as a weapons-smuggling operation which could have been earning large profit.
Shluchim from across France gathered for the 25th annual Kinus Hashluchim with keynote speeches by the president of the Jewish Council, Mr. Yonathan Arfi, and Brazil shliach, Rabbi Dovid Weitman.
When an IDF Soldier asked Rabbis Moishy Serebryanski and Eliyahu Ezagui to visit his base, he emphasized that the soldiers want more than just food and merrymaking – they want a shiur in Torah by a shliach of the Rebbe.
60 days ahead of Gimmel Tammuz, shluchim at the Western Regional Kinus shared stories of ‘regards from the Rebbe’ they received during tough times, letting them know that the Rebbe was thinking of them.
During Nissan, dozens of Montreal bochurim gathered every day at the Chai Center and at Yagdil Torah for Chassidus, davening, breakfast, Nigleh, and special shiurim from Montreal maggidei shiurim.
Inspired by the Rebbe’s call for every Jew to be a Shliach, Chabad Young Professionals’ ‘Ambassadors of Freedom,’ connected to more people than ever before this Pesach.
Chief Rabbi and head of the Jewish community in Iran, Rabbi Yehuda Gerami, was seen tonight davening in 770, alongside JLI director, Rabbi Efraim Mintz.
IDF troops destroyed the Hamas “Resistance Monument,” which is a giant fist at the Rafah Crossing, meant to symbolize the success of violence against Israel.
War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Nineteen: Border Police soldiers stopped an ambulance whose driver with Israeli citizenship claimed he was rushing to an accident in Israel but had a vanful of terrorists, UNRWA estimates that 300,000 people have evacuated from Rafah so far in mass compliance to the IDF’s warnings, and there are currently three IDF units fighting in Gaza.
At the tri-annual Kinus Torah held at the Kingston Mesivta, speakers addressed interesting and relevant halachic topics, including the Alter Rebbe‘s view on an Eruv in New York and acapella music during sefira.
Rabbonim and local residents attended the grand opening of the new SafeTech center in Crown Heights, expressing their satisfaction that at last such a service would be locally available to serve the community.
Many were excited to see a photo of Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu putting on tefillin for all to see. While it may be the first public photo of him wearing tefillin, it certainly isn’t the first time PM Netanyahu put on tefillin.
On October 29, 1998, 19-year-old IDF sergeant Alexey (Asher) Neykov bravely intercepted a car filled with explosives aimed at two school buses carrying 48 Jewish children near the Kfar Darom settlement. Now, a street was named after him in Ukraine.
In light of the war in Israel and rising antisemitism worldwide, New York City’s Jewish influencers launched the #GotMatzah campaign this Pesach, an effort to connect and support Jews around the world.
For the first time, Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu posted a photo of himself putting on tefillin of a soldier who was killed during the 2014 Gaza War. This public display is reminiscent of a letter the Rebbe sent to PM Ariel Sharon.
To help Anash, shluchim, and bochurim traveling to New York for Gimmel Tammuz, arrangements were made with various airline companies for special discounts.
A direct hit was made on a building in Ashkelon, late at night after Shabbos.
War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Eighteen: Hezbollah missiles caused significant damage and led to a large fire around the city which took 10 firefighting teams time to put out, five soldiers from the Nachal Brigade’s 931st Battalion fell during fierce gun battles in Zeitoun, and Hamas published a video of hostage Nadav Popelwell that the IDF requests people not view.
“And they Traveled to Rusland”: Moment Magazine, the world’s most popular Yiddish magazine, published a full-length supplement of the shluchim’s work throughout Russia and Siberia, and a 10-page interview with Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Though Reb Zalman Havlin offered to pay up the Horoditch yeshiva’s debt, the Frierdiker Rebbe tricked him into a din Torah by the Rebbe Rashab. Though he was exonerated, he paid it with shadchonus gelt he received.
Reb Schneur Zalman Yudkin, an elder chossid from Crown Heights who had mesirus nefesh in Russia and later traveled around inspiring countless people, passed away.
In Montreal’s central Anash shul, a farbrengen was held to honor the 190th birthday of the Rebbe Maharash, led by the director of Beis Rivkah, Rabbi Yosef Minkowitz.
