(L -R) Rabbi Shmaya Katz, Cory Miller, and Rabbi Moshe Frank standing beside the new Mezuzah.
Cory Miller is the youngest President of a financial trading firm; he is just twenty two years old. This past Monday afternoon Chabad of Wall Street Rabbis Shmaya Katz and Moshe Frank installed a mezuzah in his company branch on Wall Street.
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by Chana Kroll - Chabad.org
Residents of a Manchester, England, nursing home enjoy a performance by visiting yeshiva students.
Coming off of one of the busiest times of the year, Jewish community members and yeshiva students in Manchester, England, said that a campaign to bring the fall holiday season to homebound and hospitalized individuals resulted in hundreds of people getting a chance to celebrate the High Holidays.
By Joshua Runyan for Chabad.org
Levi Duchman says the hard part is the pedaling.
NEW YORK — Coming alongside a New York City push to license pedicab operators, the initiative of a Jewish teenager in Brooklyn has given pedestrians and motorists an interesting site: a mobile bamboo-topped latticework hut affixed to a rickshaw.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — As Sukkos is quickly approaching, dozens of Bochurim and Shluchim have already confirmed their Sukkah Mobiles for this coming Chol Hamo'ed. After tremendous efforts, by Bochurim and Yungerleit, the Sukkahs are ready to be assembled, rental contracts are already confirmed and much more has already been done in advance of the biggest Sukkah Mobile Season yet.
by Yonit Tanenbaum - Chabad.org
Stories of Jewish immigrants throwing their tefillin overboard upon encountering the freedom and promise of life in the United States may be the stuff of legend, but for Mendel Aisenbach, a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, N.Y., such tales emphasize an important point: When they approached the Statue of Liberty, many of the tired and poor masses from across Europe – a good portion of them Jewish – pushed their identities to recesses deep inside in the quest to become Americans.
SYDNEY, Australia [CHI] — A convoy of ten “Mitzva Tanks” conquered the streets of the city Sydney, Australia this Thursday, Gimel Tamuz, setting out from the “Yeshiva Center - Chabad Headquarters of NSW”.
TORONTO, Canada [CHI] — On Sunday morning 11 Nissan, in honor of the Rebbe's 107th Birthday, 5 Mitzvah Tanks went out into the streets of Toronto to spread Torah and Mitzvos and the Spirit of the Yom Tov of Pesach to the Jewish Community at large.
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You thought Yehupitz was a mythical place. It isn't. It's in Hastings, Minnesota, a twenty minute drive from the Yeshiva High School of the Twin Cities in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. As Yehupitz's go, this one doesn't have many if any Jews. And out of this Yehupitz came Deke, a Coffee shop owner whose Jewish name is Chaim Branchaud-Linsk, a Jew from North Minneapolis.
By Zalman Dubinsky
Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman with Velvel (Bill).
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — For weeks Hatmimim Zalman Dubinsky and Nisson Friedman, students in Yeshivas Ohr Elchanan Chabad in Los Angeles, would go into a furniture store and drop off a weekly L’chaim pamphlet by the elderly man, in his mid-to-late eighties, by the desk. “The man you’re looking for is not here” he said every week. “I’ll give it to the owner” he says making sure to show that he wouldn’t read it.
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YORBA LINDA, CA [CHI] — Hatomim Shalom Bluming Went through the shopping mall on Purim day and read Megillah for many of the shoppers, most Israeli, in middle of a regular business day.
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VANCOUVER, Canada [CHI] — For the first time ever, there was a 'Chanukah Car Menorah Parade' in Vancouver. There were about 30 cars driving through the freezing streets, doing Mivtzoim. There was a local TV network following the cars and reporting on the parade and Mivtzoim, making a great kiddush Lubavitch and a huge Persum of Chanukah. There are a couple of more pictures in the extended article.
Once again, The Yeshiva by The Ohel HaKadosh organized Mivtza Chanukah with a “bang”, this time with uniquely-designed “Chanukah Mitzva Tanks”, helping many Shluchim in Long Island and Queens with their Chanukah celebrations and Menorah lightings.
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As the Israeli Defence Force spread out across the borders of Gaza City preparing for a ground incursions, a group of Bochurim, Shluchim and Anash went out amongst the soldiers to do Mivtzoim!
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CHICAGO, IL [CHI] — In honor of Sukkos this year there were three Sukka mobiles that went on Mivtzoim on the 3 days of Chol Hamoed. Bochurim woke early in the morning, Davened, had a quick breakfast and then set out for a full day of Mivtzoim in the different areas through out the state of Illinois covering shopping malls, busy street corners, visiting Chabad Houses and bringing JKewish pride through out the state.
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CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — When speaking to the soldiers in Tzivos Hashem, the Rebbe would refer to them as being on the front lines in Hafotzas Hamyonos and they are the ones who will bring Moshiach.
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LONDON, England [CHI] — During Chol Hamoed Three Sukkah Mobiles hit the streets of London with unprecedented success. More than 1300 Yidden shook Lulov and Esrog.
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GORI, Georgia [CHI] — Tensions continue to flare up between Georgia and Russia, with Gori still a city in shambles where many wait in refugee camps for Red Cross food drop-offs, and bombed houses color the landscape.
All the more reason for Georgia’s Chabad-Lubavitch representatives in Tbilisi, Rabbi Meir and Tzipora Kozlovsky, to arrange for rabbinical students to come to Gori and its neighboring towns and cities, so that the area's Jews would have the opportunity to get the Jewish New Year off to a good start, with the kind of Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur services that would inspire and uplift them.
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The following are a few photos from the archives of Chabad of California, where R. Yossi Rachik is seen doing Mivtziom in the 1960’s at the Chabad Rallies.
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MORRISTOWN, NJ [CHI] — This past week on Friday Mivtzoim the T’mimim Levi Kaye and Chaim Rosenstien finally managed to convinced Mr. Pinchus (Paul) Greenberg to put on tefilin for the very first time! Pinchus is 101 years old and is currently living at the “Care One” Old Age Home in Morristown, N.J.
DETROIT, MI [CHI] — On June 17, 2008 - 60 of the most respected businessmen and women in the Detroit metropolitan area gathered together at the beautiful social hall in “The Shul” - West Bloomfield, MI to pay tribute to their weekly “Friday Boys - Yeshiva Bochurim”.
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NEW YORK, NY [CHI] — Sunday, close to a million Jews from the Tri State Area took part in the annual Salute to Israel parade in Manhattan. This event has been dubbed as the “biggest Jewish event of the year”, There was a record high attendance this year.
Fifth Avenue was closed off to traffic to allow tens of thousands of children from Jewish schools march in an expression of Jewish pride.
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TARZANA, CA [CHI] — Once again, with the help of many Anash and Shluchim, Chabad of the Valley has reached its goal of putting on Tefillin with well over 1500 Jews. In addition, close to 3500 Neshek packs were distributed. All in all, the giant Chabad Mivtza booth was a Kiddush Shem Lubavitch. Several people made a commitment to put on Tefillin on a daily basis.
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