In a video series titled 'Tangled Web,' NY1 News Channel has waded into the touchy subject of Orthodox Jewry's relationship with the internet. While the first three videos shared stories about rabbis trying to limit access to the Internet, the fourth report covers the rabbis who want people to make their site, Chabad.org, the go-to place for all Jewish learning.
Rabbi David Nesenoff
recently spoke at Chabad House of Miami Beach and the Chabad
Lubavitch's National Retreat in Weston about spirituality, media bias
and the aftermath of the Thomas incident "My goals are to let people
know that no.1, the Jew is strongly connected to the Land of Israel by
virtue of God giving it to us, no.2, there is anti-Semitism in the world
and no. 3, there is a divine providence to our world"
A technology
savvy 21 year-old Lubavitcher bochur was behind the live broadcast of
the Siyum Hashas at MetLife stadium, viewed and hailed by tens of
thousands.
A computer
glitch had American Jews scrambling to travel websites to secure an
eye-popping fare to Tel Aviv. An El Al representative speaking to
CrownHeights.CH was clearly agitated.
93,000 people will be there - including some Chabad rabbonim - but not the eldest relative of the Daf Yomi founder R' Meir Shapiro (the person is a Lubavitcher).
The Olympic
Committee is refusing to honor the 40th anniversary of the 1972 Munich
massacre of Israeli athletes, a Chabad center in Connecticut is making
sure it is not forgotten.
Key 26/11
handler Abu Jundal has reportedly admitted that he gave instructions to
one of the ten terrorists who carried out the Mumbai attacks, including
the Chabad House.
A
news website has reported that the Broadcasting Authority is currently
considering whether to promote Uri Revach, who presents religious
programs on the Moreshet network, to the position of military
correspondent for the Israeli television station Channel One.
Kfar Chabad Rabbi Mordechai Ashkenazi
was in Ukraine this week to supervise the cutting of wheat which will
be used for Shmurah Matzos this coming Pesach. He was accompanied by
Dneper Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky.
The prestigious
National Law Journal calls the Rubashkin case “tragic and frightening,”
citing chilling details of the federal prosecution and trial, Debbie
Maimon reports in the Yated. By Debbie Maimon - Yated Ne'eman.
Chabad of
Hunterdon County, New Jersey, directed by the Shliach Rabbi Eli Kornfeld
celebrated its 9th Anniversary Dinner Banquet. It was a special event
with many community, business as well as civic leaders joining the over
two hundred and thirty people in attendance. More photos in the Full Story!
On Monday, June
18, dignitaries from across Connecticut convened in the Senate Chamber
of the State Capitol for an evening of tribute. The program included a
musical celebration highlighting songs the Rebbe composed, as well as a
brief video biography of the Rebbe. Personal memories were shared by
Rabbi Yisrael Deren, Director of Chabad in Stamford.
JEM's "My
encounter with the Rebbe" team left the confines of North America and
headed south to the largest country in the Southern Hemisphere: Brazil.
Rabbi Daniel Rabin
Rabbi of the North Eastern Jewish Centre Doncaster spoke today at the
Chabad of Melbourne CBD about the Four Vital Questions one is asked when
the soul comes before the Supreme Court in Heaven.
Chabad
Lubavitch of Camden & Burlington Counties in Cherry Hill, New
Jersey, directed by the Shliach Rabbi Mendy Mangel, celebrated 18 years
of service to the community with a "Chai Gala" dinner last week
Supporters and community members sat side by side with Shluchim and
relatives to honor the Shluchim In honor of the dinner, The Jewish
Community Voice, a New Jersey newspaper, profiled Mrs. Dinie Mangel, the
local Chabad Shlucha.