FIRE IN TZFAS

Two weeks ago, a fiery inferno raged uncontrollably near Kiryat Chabad in the Holy City of Tzfas. Ten families – men, women, and children – were evacuated from their homes, some of which were completely destroyed by the flames. They have been left without a roof over their heads and no vestige remaining of what had been there before. While the cause of the blaze has yet to be determined, the failure in basic rescue procedure was catastrophic. “The firefighters stood by helplessly as the water supplies ran out.” Colel Chabad, under the administration of Rabbi Yoram Mauda, has initiated an urgent campaign and fundraising drive to save these families

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A SOUL crying out to be redeemed

Csanad Szegedi was a leader of a right wing pro-Nazi Hungarian political group in Budapest called Jobbik, which formed the Hungarian Guard, a paramilitary organization. Since its establishment in 2003, he was a member of this extreme party and part of the hardcore that started it, devoted to an ideology of anti-Semitism and holocaust denial.

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UNPRECEDENTED UNITY IN THE FACE OF A MODERN DAY BLOOD LIBEL

In recent years, Jews in New York had to contend with a new blood libel in a modern guise, in which the New York City Board of Health required parents to sign a legal consent form before their infant could have metzitza b’peh (oral suction) at a bris. * The influential Board of Health was on one side, facing a lone Chabad Chassid, a mohel by profession, on the other side. He was able to galvanize religious Jewry in New York to fight a battle that seemed hopeless. * On September 9 of this year, the NYC Board of Health rescinded that requirement. Beis Moshiach met with mohel, R’ Levi Heber, who told us about the miraculous battle that he fought and won. * A behind the scenes look at the news.

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THE LADDER IN BEIT EL REACHES THE HEAVENS

In Beit El they dream not only of ladders but also about growing and expanding, but in the meantime, the Israeli government is choking the yishuv with the construction freeze. * The Rebbe’s shliach in the yishuv, R’ Dovid Bakush, along with his wife and family, reach out to the local residents as well as to IDF soldiers working in the area.

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LEADING THE BATTLE AGAINST PHONY CONVERSIONS

The announcement of the founding of an “alternative conversion system” has, once again, pushed the Rebbe’s battle for Mihu Yehudi to the forefront of public awareness. * Litvishe Dayan, Rabbi Avrohom Sherman, member of the Beis Din HaGadol in Yerushalayim, scion of a Lubavitcher family, leads the battle against alternative conversions.

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THE REBBE ON REGIME CHANGE IN AN ARAB COUNTRY

On Shabbos Parshas Mishpatim 5752, the Rebbe revealed that the one behind all the global upheavals was the Rebbe himself, in his role as Moshiach. He is preparing the world for the new era of “grinding swords into plowshares.” * An extraordinary story, that I heard from my brother-in-law R’ Leibel Groner, sheds new light on how we Chassidim need to look at what is going on in the world. * My friends and brothers, the Rebbe is behind the headlines and he wants us to understand them as such.

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