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JERUSALEM, Israel — On Sunday night, the Gala Banquet of JLI's visit to the Holy Land took place in the main ballroom of the David Citadel Hotel in Jerusalem.
The evening opened with a speech by Knesset member Uzi Landau, who spoke about the importance of Jerusalem and its place in Jewish History. He then officially welcomed the over 200 participants from around the world and thanked them for their visit to Israel, while mentioning the blessed activities of Chabad around the world.
The next speaker was Knesset member Natan Sharansky, who opened his speech with the following story... |
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Sixty years ago, upon the passing of the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, leadership of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement passed on to his illustrious son-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, The Rebbe. |
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Rabbi Shimon Pelman, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic, and two rabbinical students who were dispatched from New York to help during the tragedy, prepared boxes of hot meals and sent them with an Israeli convoy travelling across rugged terrain to a field hospital in Port-au-Prince.
The rabbi also arranged for a local bakery to prepare bread for foreign military forces in Haiti, including an Israeli delegation that numbers in excess of 220 personnel and is comprised of K-9 search-and-rescue units, a medical team and support staff. |
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Please help thousands of children with special needs by voting for Friendship Circle at www.voteFC.com.
Your vote is worth $1 MILLION!!! |
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Rabbi Mordechai Groner, Director of the Calgary JLI, was interviewed about Chanukah on the Rutherford Show - AM 770 CHQR Radio. |
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Last year, the world stood together in shock and sadness at the brutal loss of life in Mumbai, India. One year later, communities arond the world joined in a global gathering of hope, healing, and renewal to mark the anniversary of this tragedy. See how the lives of those who were lost have been memorialized in a triumph of love and giving. |
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Last year, the world stood together in shock and sadness at the brutal loss of life in Mumbai, India. One year later, join in a global gathering of hope, healing, and renewal to mark the anniversary of this tragedy. See how the lives of those who were lost have been memorialized in a triumph of love and giving. |
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As the city of Calgary, Alberta, confronts a plethora of anti-Semitic attacks against Jewish institutions in the mountainous metropolis, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper issued a stinging rebuke of a phenomenon plaguing his hometown. |
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Moshe Holtzberg, the little boy miraculously saved from the Mumbai, India, carnage that last year claimed the lives of his parents formally entered the world of Torah study Wednesday at a grand third-birthday celebration in Israel. |
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Wednesday, the first day of Kislev marked the 2nd Yartziet of Rabbi Shlomo Matusof OBM. |
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Special section in honor of the first anniversary since the cruel murders of Gavriel (Gabi) and Rivky Holtzberg, beloved directors of Chabad of Mumbai. The story of the Holtzbergs' legacy of light. |
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Swapping military vehicles for a veritable army of 5,000 rabbis and lay leaders Sunday night, the grand banquet of the annual International Conference of Chabad Lubavitch Emissaries praised the value of communal involvement and empowered attendees to take the selfless spirit of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, to the far corners of the globe and the deep recesses of their hearts. |
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International Conference of Chabad emissaries - Gala Banquet
Please join Rabbi Menachem Matusof, Rabbi Mordechai Groner, Mr. Daniel Shimonov and representatives of Friends of Calgary Chabad and the Calgary community, who are participating live at this historic event in New York.
The program begins at 3:30pm MT and will be available online by clicking here. |
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Celebrating 70 years of their movement being directed from the United States, almost 4,000 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from around the globe are making their way to the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., for an annual conference exploring everything from energizing teenage congregants to strengthening Jewish activities in the wake of an economic downturn. |
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Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper paid tribute to the victims of the Islamic terrorist attack on his visit to the Chabad's Nariman House in Mumbai India on Monday November 16th, to mark the first anniversary of the event. |
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Mazal Tov! to Rabbi Menachem & Rochel Matusof on the birth of a baby boy!
The Bris will be Thursday, November 5th, 4:00 PM at the Beth Tzedec Ballroom |
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Mazal Tov! to Rabbi Menachem & Rochel Matusof on the birth of a baby boy! |
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