By COLlive reporter
The new year of 5783 arrived with a new issue of the COLlive Magazine featuring interviews, articles and columns that are uplifting the Tishrei month for readers.
The magazine is printed and delivered to homes around the Crown Heights neighborhood, New York area and other Chabad communities elsewhere and is now available online as well.
The opening article is about Rabbi Gershon Schusterman who openly tells how he had the answers to life’s tough questions as a Shliach and educator in California – until tragedy struck with the passing of his wife.
NYPD Sergent Mike Baratta, a familiar face in Crown Heights as the community liaison of the 71st precinct, is so knowledgeable about Jewish customs that his friends call him “the rabbi.”
What does a roundtable discussion of experienced shadchanim lead to? A brief and practical guide to finding a bashert and making it all the way to the chuppah.
The spirit of the Chassidic town of Lubavitch comes alive in the stirring description of the Frierdiker Rebbe as newly translated by Sichos in English.
In addition to that, 6 short stories that were told by the famed Mashpia R’ Mendel Futerfas bring to life the ways of the Chassidim during Tishrei in both Russia and America.
A practice that has been established by the Rebbe is highlighted in Libby Herz‘s article about the Tahalucha campaign and the moving story of one family’s dedication to bringing joy to another community amidst their own sorrow.
There was nothing like Simchas Torah with the Rebbe, and Shlucha Shula Kazen of Cleveland was determined to make it happen – even when it wasn’t easy.
A one-man lobby for your children – that is the role of dayan Rabbi Yaacov Barber who succeeds in placing boys and girls into Chabad educational institutions and summer camps.
If you are hosting guests, Crown Heights residents Mashi Greenberg, Toby Halon and Raizel Heppenheimer provide 12 tips based on their experience hosting guests for over 25 years.
Ready to cook up a storm? Culinary educator and cookbook author Kim Kushner presents modern recipes to uplift your yom tov feast.
For the children, there is an illustrated story about a misdialed phone call from Germany, and a connect the details game.
Columns include a letter from the Rebbe about the Hakhel year, a letter from the publisher, an article from the editor, a flashback gallery of photos by JEM of Tishrei with the Rebbe, therapist Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, and humorous thoughts on chol hamoed trips by Mordechai Schmutter.
The Then & Now article profiles 824 Eastern Parkway, built in 1915 as an apartment building and transformed by Rabbi JJ Hecht as a buzzing hub of Jewish activism and study.
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