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.

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.

Anash in Paris, France, mourn the passing of R’ David Guedj, a pillar of the community, who suddenly passed away on Beis Iyar.

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.

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.

Mrs. Ruth Averbuch, mother of the Steinmetz family and sister of the Schochets, passed away on Beis Iyar. Levaya today at 1:10 pm.

In honor of Beis Iyar, the birthday of the Rebbe Maharash, we present you with an overview of his life, as written up in A Chassidisher Derher magazine.

Sunday 12-6 pm: After years of successful activities in our Crown Heights community, Safe Tech is opening a new permanent office that will serve as a neighborhood center and hub for safe technology and related matters.

War Summary, Day Two Hundred and Sixteen: Due to Hezbollah’s heavy barrages of missiles at Har Meron the IDF Home Front Command cancelled the upcoming Lag B’Omer celebrations in Meron, the Border Police have announced that a new unit opened for the first time ever with 30 new drafts from Charedi communities, and an “unidentified object” flew from the Gaza Strip into Israeli territory and fell in an open area in the Netivot area.

Presented here is a rare recording from 5721 by renowned educator, Rebbetzin Ettel Tzerna Hodakov, wife of Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, the Rebbe’s legendary “Chief of Staff” whose Yartzeit is this shabbos. The topic: Ahavas Yisroel in this week’s parsha.

In honor of Yud Alef Nissan, the boys division of the Nigri Shluchim Online School of the Shluchim Office prepared their own present to the Rebbe through a new beautiful, interactive initiative.