Motti Seligson
@mottiseligson
Followers
6,221
Following
1,469
Media
663
Statuses
6,012
Director of Media at @Chabad / . Tweets are my own.
ÜT: 40.680432,-73.729833
Joined April 2009
Don't wanna be here?
Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
BLEACH
• 167020 Tweets
Saka
• 126035 Tweets
#SixTONESANN
• 73559 Tweets
#らんまアニメ
• 58259 Tweets
DARLING DARLING ITS HANNI DAY
• 50863 Tweets
Southampton
• 46461 Tweets
Havertz
• 34137 Tweets
Fulham
• 29811 Tweets
Sterling
• 23303 Tweets
ジェシー
• 22001 Tweets
Brentford
• 19345 Tweets
Martinelli
• 16502 Tweets
レインボーブリッジ封鎖
• 12805 Tweets
#オールスター後夜祭
• 11625 Tweets
Ahtisa
• 11147 Tweets
Kovacic
• 10575 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
Yesterday,
@Shterni
and I welcomed our son into the 4,000 year-old covenant G-d made with Abraham. We named him Avraham Abba. 1 >>
With gratitude to the Almighty, I can share that early this morning
@Shterni
gave birth to our son. Both mom & baby are healthy.
Thank you to so many of you who have shared your love and prayers with us over the years. We look forward to sharing many joyous occasions together.
259
30
1K
55
23
496
A Jew brutally beaten last night in Brooklyn. Nothing stolen. Antisemitism is alive and well in NYC. Time for a hard look at who is doing it and its cause. This has been going on in NY long before Charlottesville or 2016 just ask anyone visibly Jewish.
353
982
2K
With gratitude to the Almighty, I can share that early this morning
@Shterni
gave birth to our son. Both mom & baby are healthy.
Thank you to so many of you who have shared your love and prayers with us over the years. We look forward to sharing many joyous occasions together.
259
30
1K
Some time ago, a group of extremist students, broke through a few walls in adjacent properties to the synagogue at 784-788 Eastern Parkway, to provide them unauthorized access. Earlier today, a cement truck was brought in to repair those walls. Those efforts were disrupted by the
267
232
1K
At the funeral of Moshe Dautsch, murdered yesterday in the kosher grocery yesterday in Jersey City. This should not be.
47
297
1K
In Washington DC with the families of the hostages who just got here from the Rebbe's Ohel where they came to pray for the safe return of their loved ones.
@Chabad
125
117
852
Chassidic cantors sing The Star Spangled Banner honoring frontline medical providers outside NYU hospital in NYC with
@FDNY
firefighters and other first responders cheering on.
38
177
602
Wishing you a Shabbat shalom from the Jewish children from the displaced
@Chabad
orphanage in Zhitomir, Ukraine.
18
111
613
Family members of hostages traveled from Israel to pray at the Ohel, the resting place of the Rebbe... The names of all their relatives are being read out one by one.
#BringThemHome
14
82
495
Chabad in New Orleans is cooking and distributing whatever food they have in their fridges and freezers as they have no power and likely won't for weeks.
This is a community BBQ:
8
69
390
I'm hearing two men walked into Rabbi Rottenberg's home where a menorah lighting ceremony was taking place and stabbed five people. They tried moving to the ajoining synagogue but the people there barricaded the door. They fled in a silver car.
29
262
302
Rabbi Chaim L. Rottenberg making the Birchat Hagomel, blessing for surviving a dangerous event (), this morning.
10
78
320
Glad to hear police arrested the guy who shot at this Hasidic kid in Stated Island in front of a kosher grocery store.
@Shterni
and I were at that very spot hours before the incident.
#Antisemitism
28
88
311
Many thousands gather in prayer in Crown Heights in support of the people of Israel.
7
37
321
You can make a difference! Do a mitzvah for Israel today!
73
39
304
Video from the scene of the stabbings at a synagogue in Monsey where Chassidim were gathered for a Hanukkah celebration.
32
175
184
A Torah scroll was completed welcomed to a synagogue down in Monsey, with the customary procession of singing & dancing, the procession stopped at R' Rottenberg's home, where the attack took place less than a day ago. This community won't allow itself to be defined by adversity.
3
43
178
It was an absolute pleasure to host
@EylonALevy
, an inimitable defender of the Jewish people, at 770
@Chabad
HQ. We discussed the challenges, triumphs and hopes for the future and prayed for the Jewish people, the people of Israel and the hostages.
30
15
224
A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down Powerful by founding rabbi of Chabad of Poway, Yisroel Goldstein. . Thank you to
@bariweiss
for making this happen.
#ShareShabbat
3
59
192
Today,
@Chabad
in Bayonne, NJ distributed 60k masks, 120k gloves, disinfectants, etc. to thousands of residents. Yesterday, Chabad in Hackensack (
@mkaminker
) did the same, and
@ChabadNJ
is poised to do the same across the state with hospital PPE.
#StrongerTogether
2
48
194
The last speaker pleaded with everyone to be better and dedicate themselves to others with their "heart and soul." This speaker is pleading with the Almighty... this can't go on like this.
2
18
168
Jewish students at
@Columbia
looking for a safe and inspiring Seder will find one at
@ChabadColumbia
.
@Chabad
is not going anywhere because this Passover Columbia really needs more Jewish life not less.
#AmYisroelChai
5
24
178
This pic & post has been circulating on WhatsApp groups:
"This is not something you see every day! A pilot was observed making his way towards the gate, in his uniform, carrying luggage, and surprisingly, also his Tefillin, Rashi, and Rabbeinu Tam"
I know him well. Here's how:
3
9
162
UPDATE:
The DOB issued a report referring to a room illegally dug beside the synagogue. This basement-level space—a long, eight-foot wide room—was dug out by young agitators underneath a ground-level extension made by the synagogue decades ago. This is not the space referred to
19
34
165
Help the orphans of the Ferencz family...
6
46
132
Reports of a stabbing attack at a synagogue in Monsey, NY. Multiple victims.
26
127
132
Under war, with help from
@JRNUkraine
,
@Chabad
Rabbi Levi & Dina Stambler keep the flame of Hanukkah and Judaism alive in Kamianske, Ukraine bring light, warmth and joy on the first night of Hanukkah!
7
39
143
One assailant with his face covered with a scarf. One of the Chassidic Jews in the house, threw a table at the attacker and chased him from the home.
5
42
122
I'm told the number emergency transports from Crown Heights dropped toward the end of last week. May this week be full of transports home from the hospital. Shavua tov!
6
13
140
An arrest was made after NYPD stopped the suspects car in NYC.
8
31
96
Natalie & Judith Raanan, Chicago mom & daughter, were reportedly released through Egypt and handed to the Red Cross.
Their family has NOT received confirmation yet.
Humanity is holding it's collective breath, and praying, for them and the other 200 Hostages.
20
16
108
A brick with Nazi & antisemitic writing was hurled thru Chabad of Pensacola's window... On Fri 130 people responded with light & Jewish pride at a Shabbat candle lighting ceremony and the brick will be used in building of a bigger new
@Chabad
center.
9
21
104
On behalf of the Jewish community, I shared a message today of friendship and solidarity with the people of Türkiye at the Turkish House in NYC (
@TRConsulNY
).
We discussed
@mchitrik
& the Jewish community's work in aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Antakya, Turkey.
5
18
101
If the last weeks have shown anything, it's the rot at the core of American "higher education." American universities would do well to model how yeshivas educate young people with true Jewish values about responsibility, obligation, gratitude and consequences of ones actions.
6
35
106
After the funeral of fellow officer, one of New York's finest stopped by
@ChabadofMidtown
to do a mitzvah and pray.
2
7
100
Hanukkah and light will prevail despite the efforts of the forces of darkness to fight back.
This
@Chabad
menorah is in
@jeremycorbyn
's district.
I’m sorry to share that the Menorah on Islington Green has been severely damaged. The ugly face of hate.
I guess not everyone enjoys light and joy.
Talking now to
@IslingtonBC
and
@MPSIslington
80
179
467
11
38
101
Thank you. The antisemitic conspiracy mill is in overdrive. The breathless sensational, often inaccurate, press coverage is not helpful either.
Update: I've decided to delete the entire thread about the Chabad tunnel. I will NOT allow my account to be used by antisemitic Jew haters to promote their pathetic hatred of religious Jews.
I will continue to inspire and entertain, and spread love in the world. 🙏❤️
2K
155
4K
30
7
98
The car my brother-in-law and two nephews were traveling in just GOT SHOT in Brooklyn.
18
19
96
A pregnant Chassidic woman was the victim of an antisemitic attack yesterday in Crown Heights.
Clearly dressed in Chasidic attire, she was approached by a man on Eastern Parkway who threw juice in her face and said “you people disgust me.” He then fled.
4
41
92
Father: Parents are supposed to accompany their children to good things, their wedding... A father is not supposed to be eulogize his son! All the good you did to help other will always stand... Yesterday we were hoping and praying that we would hear good news...
2
16
88
Going in to Shabbat with some good news... My friend Yossi walking out of the hospital after a bumpy Coronoavirus ride. Shabbat shalom!
5
2
94
Anti-Semitism is sadly not new to our country. It’s time we focus our energy on prevention; educating and instilling a sense of responsibility and purpose in our young people. A moment of reflection each morning in our public schools is a good place to start.
10
18
71
Last night I witnessed the writing of history with 1,500 others at wedding of UAE Rabbi Levi Duchman & Lea Hadad. For 8 yrs, with gov support
@RabbiUae
built the, UAE Jewish infrastructure. The wedding, largest Jewish event ever in UAE, is beging of a new chapter for UAE Jews.
4
21
91
"While we can't call him by name anymore as he is not with us... but we can call on his legacy of dedication to others, dedicated his life to others... hundreds of students he mentored and whose lives he impacted for good."
2
7
84
Happy Chanukah from Crown Heights... This from earlier this evening (apx 6 pm) and is being investigated as a hate crime. A young person assaults a Chassidic Jew from behind and another films...
4
47
84
In good news for Jews at an American university,
@Chabad
at
@UF
/
@JewishGator
to host the largest Passover Seder in North America. The 1,200 strong Seder will be held in the school's basketball arena.
#AmYisraelChai
#ChagSameach
Happy Passover!
4
17
90
There is something to be said of the cultural exchange between Chassidic Jews and other ethnic minorities in the inner-city, something that other "cultured" Jews may only experience synthetically at a talk at the 92nd St Y.
3
8
82
A most powerful response to hate of those days and in our times today.
Survivor Celebrates 90th Birthday in Auschwitz With 100 Descendants.
Chabad scholar and author Rabbi Nissen Mangel celebrated the triumph of good over evil with four generations:
11
43
200
1
11
80
Passionate plea for prayers by
@Chabad
Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm of Zhitomir as he evacuates his tenth bus of with children from the orphanage he runs and other refugees from Ukraine.
2
24
80
Why does everyone try to pretend this isn't what it is...?
Love the people who come to Crown Heights to protest Kaporos with a shirt that tells chasidic Jews to
"Stop having kids"
(They both have the shirt.)g
25
22
191
6
13
73
בלע המות לנצח ומחה הוי' אלקים דמעה מעל כל פנים
“He will swallow up death forever; G‑d, the L‑rd, will wipe tears away from all faces.”
1
8
69
On the topic of name calling of Jews in the press:
Now that the
@nytimes
has addressed "antisemitism" vs. "anti-Semitism" the Jewish community is calling for them to address the hyphenated troubling term still in use; "ultra-Orthodox" a prejudicial term.
@ADL
@JGreenblattADL
3
22
72
Crowd is getting bigger and more dense. There are thousands here.
1
6
66
Koshe lunch in Abu Dhabi with my friend
@hameli1234
after a night of Slichot and praying for a sweet new year.
3
4
72
Cover of Today's
@NYTimes
sports section (
@NYTSports
).
@Chabad
.org scooped the NY Times by 1.5 years!
With As-a-Jew tokenism, Sam stands apart, as an authentic representation of what it means to be a Jew.
Props to
@ChabadTAMU
, Sam's spiritual campus home.
@AggieFootball
3
9
72
Chabad of Bushwick had its window knocked in while the community and its rabbi, Menachem Heller (pictured), were inside celebrating Shabbat. Vandalizing a synagogue crosses a big line. I just spent the evening with the rabbi and his community. Awesome and inspiring people.
6
26
58
The two cantors are
@YaakovLemmer
and
@arongerstel
. They do this at another NYC hospital daily.
8
12
56
Hasidic communities are bringing out the biggest crowds at rallies in support of the people of Israel. Crown Heights had similar crowds.
#AmYisraelChai
(h/t:
@yossy770
)
בורו פארק החרדית לא ראתה כזו עצרת עשרות שנים. כלל החוגים התאספו לעצרת זעקה בתפילה על יושבי ארץ הקודש
62
93
672
3
17
57
Schneur's flight happened to be landing at the same time as my tefillin were and he raced over to the gate before heading home to Crown Heights in time for Shabbos.
Schneur was awesome. He would not accept anything even a "thank you"
#HasidicPilotsClub
#MeKiamcha
@MendyTV
1
2
60
I'm proud that since March, when Covid-19 first hit the US,
@Chabad
has been — and continues to be — on the forefront of not only consistently insisting on the importance of following health guidelines (distancing, masks, etc.), but also provided the tools for Jews to do so.
5
11
61
Repots of terror attack in Vienna & video of at least one individual firing near a synagogue. Jewish leaders in Vienna, including Chabad Rabbi Jacob Biderman, are reporting no casualties at any Vienna synagogues. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Vienna.
2
29
57
Ahead of the
@Chabad
Conf, that will see 6,500 rabbis gather in NYC, we released survey findings about the Jewish response to Oct 7.
There is a great Jewish spiritual awakening.
77% of rabbis report a stronger sense of “Jewish pride and confidence” among community members.
5
13
56
IDF unit near Gaza films eshet chayil (woman of valor) song, traditionally sung at the Shabbat meal Friday night, to send to their wives back home.
Shabbat Shalom
#lightforisrael
#AmYisraelChai
4
13
59
The most comprehensive public list of hostages--current, released and murdered--is now on
@Chabad
.org with Jewish names for prayers.
Synagogues, women lighting Shabbat candles, etc use this list to include the names of the hostages their prayers.
You should too!
#LetThemGoNow
4
27
57
Some thoughts from
@Chabad
and things you can do for the people held hostage in the synagogue in Colleyville, TX.
Hearing about the awful news out of Colleyville, TX.
As we all wait for good news for those held hostage at Cong. Beth Israel, here are some things you can do, wherever you are, to add in spiritual good:
📖 Say a Psalm:
4
48
148
2
8
57
Today we published a list of 1,200 names of Jews lost to COVID-19 on . The historic project was very painful to work on, yet inspiring and rewarding for everyone involved.
Largest List of Jewish COVID-19 Victims Released by
‘Each Person, a World,’ pays tribute to 1,200 Jewish COVID-19 victims from around the globe
1
34
70
8
17
54
Earlier today in Odessa, Ukraine, hundreds of Jews line up at the Synagogue to receive matzah under the auspices of Chabad Rabbi Avraham Wolff.
12k boxes of matzah will be distributed in Odessa.
Read about Passover prep by
@Chabad
across Ukraine here:
0
14
51
The shooters passed me seconds before they shot up a car this morning in Crown Heights. Grateful everyone is ok. Sad new reality in New York.
15
4
54
Boom! The
@NYTimes
&
@BrianmRosenthal
lied and fudged numbers among other ethical lapses in the sustained assault on Chasidic Jews.
This raises some serious questions for
@nytimes
,
@brianmrosenthal
&
@elizashapiro
about their ethics, prejudices and the future of journalism.
The NYT's series on Orthodox Jewish schools was replete with lies, distortions, critical omissions, undisclosed conflicts of interest, and journalistic malpractice.
@TheTonus
has the story at
@DailySignal
.
2
31
84
2
18
54
Was just on a call with the
@Chabad
Rabbi Wolff of Odessa who told me about what this and other shipments means for him and the people in Ukraine for Passover.
Locked and Loaded. 22 tons of Pesach food and essentials collected at Mill Hill Shul together with GIFT and making its way on this Ukranian truck to Odessa.
5
14
62
2
14
53
Our son carries the name of my grandfather, Rabbi Dr. Avraham Abba Seligson. Originally from Krakow, he survived the Holocaust in Shanghai with a Sugihara visa. With selfless devotion, he saved thousands of emaciated Jewish refugees facing deadly-illnesses in Shanghai.
3
2
54
Ahead of
@PulitzerPrizes
,
@NYTimes
mum on alleged unethical yeshiva reporting by
@brianmrosenthal
&
@elizashapiro
.
Critics: coverage misrepresented data, obfuscated sources’ biases to criticize Hasidic schools. By
@luketress
@TimesofIsrael
1
19
52
The new bike lane on the Brooklyn Bridge is not even open yet... Who thinks these things through and plans them?
183
3
50
Someone got stuck in the legendary blutteh of Lubavitch.
6
1
49
We hope and pray that our
@AvrahamSeligson
follows the path of Torah illuminated by Chassidus and as taught by the Rebbe, and grows to exemplify the values of his namesake: A G-d fearing Jew who loves G-d, His Torah, and other people, who will make his positive mark on the Jewish
7
1
51
@504inHouston1
@slpnumber1
@ykahan
@HealthNYGov
Why did he have to single out a targeted minority subset that is often blamed for just about everything? Why is the religious affiliation relevant? Does Dr. Fauci do this often with other minority groups?
5
1
43
