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| Signs of the Times
Balsam (Tzori) Cultivated in Eretz Yisroel |  | | Photograph: The Temple Institute | Saplings of the balsam plant that have been cultivated in Kibbutz Ein Gedi's botanical garden for the past two years are a first test of the possibility of bringing the legendary bush, which flourished in the Second Temple period ■ more | | | |
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| Chof Tes Ellul
Yom Huledes of the Rebbe Tzemach Tzedek |  | Today,the 29th of Elul, is the yom huledes of the Rebbe Tzemech Tzedek, the third Rebbe of N'siei Chabad. In honor of his yom huledes, we present a brief biography of his birth and early years ■ more
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| Rabbi Yehoishofot Oliver
The Unnoticed Dollars |  | I heard a story from Yaakov Cohen of the Beis Yisroel neighborhood of Yerushalayim. He is from a Litvishe background, and went to the Mirrer Yeshiva as a bochur ■ This strikes me as very similar to the episode in India, where terrorists attacked the Beis Chabad, killing all there (may their blood be avenged) and devastating the building— leaving a large picture of the Rebbe unscathed ■ more
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| Chabad at IU
Creating an Inviting Environment |  | | Bais Chabad at IU | “We target all types of Jews. From observing backgrounds to non-observing backgrounds, from Jews that come from highly-religious Jewish families to Jews that were separated from organized Jewish communities,” said graduate student Alex Groysman, president of Chabad House located at the corner of Indiana Avenue and Seventh Street ■ more
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| From the Press
Black and Jewish: No Contradiction |  | | Shais Rison and Yitzchok Jordan | Photograph: Robert Stolarik /The New York Times | They are African-Americans and Orthodox Jews, a rare cross-cultural hybrid that seems quintessentially Brooklyn, but received little notice until last week, after Yoseph Robinson, a Jamaican-born convert, was killed during a robbery attempt at the kosher liquor store where he worked ■ more
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
Don't Be One, Make One |  | t we also have the sweet fruit of good health, close family, bread on the table, and the many small blessings that get overlooked. What get's noticed? The tzoros, the hardships, the mishaps, the things that aren't the way they're supposed to be ■ more
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| Gut Yomtov, L'Chaim!
Chassidim Prepare for Chai Elul Farbrengen |  | | Photograph: Lubavitch.com | Chai Elul, the eighteenth day of Elul, is the birthday of two great luminaries, the Baal Shem Tov (b. 5458) and the Alter Rebbe (b.5505), the founders of the chassidic movement in general and Chabad Chassidism respectively ■ more
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| Celebrating 113
Mazel Tov, Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim |  | | Tomchei Tmimim Began Here | Photograph: Yechiel Ofner | Today, the 15th of Elul, Lubavitcher Chassidim around the world are celebrating the 113th yom huledes of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim, established during the Sheva Brochos week of the Frierdiker Rebbe ■ Tomchei Tmimim has a glorious past, present and future, and the Tmimim, for the past 113 years, and until the hisgalus of Melech HaMoshiach imminently, are on the forefront of any and every Jewish cause ■ more
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| Chabad Meets Napa
Is He a Rabbi or a Winemaker? |  | | Photograph: Jewish Journal | Rabbi Elchonon Tenenbaum, a 30-something Chabad rabbi fresh off the boat from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, moved to Napa Valley four years ago. The rabbi hadn’t seen many vineyards in his life, and he hadn’t drunk much kosher wine outside of the strange, sweet brew made from Concord grapes that gives kosher winemakers a bad name ■ more
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| Yud Bais Elul
The Frierdiker Rebbe Arrives in the USA |  | On the 12th of Elul of 5689, two years after escaping a death sentence imposed upon him by the Russian Communist regime and his subsequent departure from that country, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, arrived in New York for a ten-month tour of the United States ■ more | | | |
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| KIddush Hashem
Rabbi's Beard Doesn't Make Cut |  | | Rabbi Menachem Stern | Photograph: Wall Street Journal/Brian Derballa | Rabbi Menachem Stern's stringy brown beard is hardly an unusual sight in his Brooklyn neighborhood. But in trying to become a chaplain in the U.S. Army, Mr. Stern has gotten tangled in a military bureaucracy that has made exceptions for other beards, but not his ■ more
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| Yad L'Achim
Mother and Four Children Rescued from Arab Village |  | | Rabbi S.D. Lifshitz, Chairman, Yad L'Achim | The one opening seemed to be that the next day, Wednesday, she had been granted special permission by her Arab husband/master to leave for a one-time, important purchase – but only with three of her children; one of them was to be left behind in the care of a local Arab woman, to ensure that she would return ■ more
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| Merkos Shlichus:
The Prime Minister Wants Tefillin |  | We were in Aruba, a small Caribbean island that is home to about 35 Jewish people. Sunday morning, we started with calling the "Jew of the island." Tony is his name. He knows everyone and everything and waits a whole year for the Merkos Shluchim to come ■ more 
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| Congressman at Bais Chabad
Congressman Peters to Support Rubashkin |  | On Friday, the 26th of Av, Congressman Gary Peters (D-MI) of Michigan met with Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg, Shliach to West Bloomfield MI, at the Bais Chabad Torah Center of West Bloomfield to discuss the terrible injustice of the Rubashkin case ■ more
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| The Avner Institute
Rare Photo of the Rebbe |  | | Photograph: The Avner Institute | This rare photo, compliments of The Avner Institute, depicts the Rebbe in the doorway of the small Zal, in the early years ■ more
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| From the Press
Hometown Hero: Rabbi Eli Laber |  | | Photograph: Agoura Hills Patch/Nicole Kliest | Rabbi Eli Laber, a young man with a ginger beard and glasses. "Let me show you where the kids are," he says, making his way to a playground brimming with bright-eyed children—all here for the Conejo Valley Friendship Circle's first summer camp ■ more
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| Rabbi Asher Deren
Looking for a Safe Space (and Time)? |  | These thirty days offer us a space in time where, despite the mistakes of our past, intentional or otherwise, we can use the energy of these thirty days to allow the Supreme Judge, who sees our failings, and on a deeper level, our inherent goodness, to return to our better self ■ more
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| Chabad of New Zealand
Will Kiwis Kill Kosher? |  | Now that a New Zealand court has granted a temporary stay on the country’s kosher slaughter ban, chicken soup might return to Rabbi Shmuel and Henna Kopel’s Shabbos table at Chabad of Otago ■ more
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| The Rubashkin Case
Corruption in the Courts |  | If anything, the revelations that Reade was involved up to her eyeballs in the Rubashkin case from the very beginning sets a new low in federal criminal law - if it is impossible for these people to sink any lower. It absolutely is clear that from the start, Reade was trying to engineer an arrest and conviction, and if she had an ounce of integrity, she would resign immediately ■ more
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| CKCA
Sizzling Kosher Chef Competition |  | Within the cozy yet well-equipped walls of Brooklyn's famous kosher culinary school, The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts (CKCA), a sizzling competition is in the works and may be destined to change culinary history. Similar to Top Chef, chefs from around Brooklyn will be put to the test in search of the next great kosher chef. Perhaps a visionary kosher chef will be born ■ more
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| The Avner Institute
Rare Photo of the Rebbe |  | | Photograph: The Avner Institute | Shturem and The Avner Institute are proud to present another rare and never published photo of the Rebbe. In this photo,the Rebbe is seen coming out of 770 on his way to the Ohel ■ more
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