Rabbi Sees Need to Help Jews Grow in Rural Ontario
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On Country Lane in Barrie, Ontario, Rabbai Mendel Nakkar and his wife are opening their home to help Jews discover their culture and faith.
Info to Be Menachem Avel Winter Family
The Winter Family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their mother, Chana, OBM, at 426 Brooklyn Ave. [between Montgomery St. and Empire Boulevard]. Shachris – 8:00 and 9:00. Mincha – 7:00. Maariv – Tzeis. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei … Continued
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7,000 Montreal Children Experience Pesach Hands-On
Over 7,000 children from the Montreal area experienced Passover this year, thanks to two programs organized by the Living Legacy.
Congregation Prays for End of Opposition to Expansion
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Rabbi Ruvi New, director of Chabad of East Boca Raton, FL.
A Jewish community, with a desire to expand its facility, hopes than past and present opposition to such plans is not associated with religious discrimination.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Zalman Posner, 87, OBM
Photo: Lubavitch Archives.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Zalman Posner, OBM, Head Shliach to the state of Tennessee for 65 years, spiritual leader of congregation Sherith Israel in Nashville for over 50 years and noted author and lecturer. He was 87 years old. Update: Levaya information added.
Video: A Word on the Parsha with Rabbi Minkowicz
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Kedoshim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is true love?
A Mother’s Long Journey for a Boy’s First Seder
Naomi Burn and her 7-year-old son Khalil Elijah, who experienced his very first Passover seder last week in Mexico.
Khalil Elijah Burn went to his first seder this Passover. He and his mother, Naomi, who live in Belize, were guests of Rabbi Mendel and Rachel Druk, co-directors of Chabad Jewish Center of Cancun in Mexico.
NYC Water Rates to Go Up This Summer
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Mayor Bill de Blasio has proposed a 3.35 percent increase in water and sewage rates paid by homeowners and landlords across the five boroughs, in a proposal submitted to the New York City Water Board.
Ticket Writing in Crown Heights Up 88%
Ticket writing by the NYPD in Crown Heights has spiked considerably under the De Blasio administration, data released by the Police Department shows.
Cop Injured in Utica Ave Shooting Honored
Rookie police officer James Li, who was shot while apprehending a fare-skipper, was honored at this month’s 71st Precinct Council Meeting. Also honored was the officer’s partner and two FDNY EMTs who came to the injured officer’s aid.
Video: A Cup of Blessing, 1967
In this unique vintage-color video from JEM, the Rebbe can be seen distributing Kos Shel Brocha to thousands of gathered Chassidim on Motzei Pesach, 1967.
4 Arrested in Connection with Williamsburg Assault
Taj Patterson not long after the attack.
The NYPD’s Hate Crimes Unit has arrested four members of the Williamsburg Hassidic community in connection with the beating of an African-American man last December. Additional arrests are expected.
Hundreds Attend Seder at CSU
Over 200 students, faculty members and local residents gathered at Colorado State University in Fort Collins for an inspiring Pesach Seder with Chabad that lasted late into the night.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Chana Winter, 43, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Chana Winter (nee Gurevitch), a young mother from Crown Heights. She was 43 years old. The Levaya will take place today, Wednesday.
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Baruch Shalom and Batsheva (nee Chaikin) Davidson (Crown Heights)
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Benny and Chanale (nee Gopin) Friedman (Crown Heights).
Donetsk Rabbi: ‘Registration’ Leaflets a Hoax
It was the second night of Passover, and the evening prayers had just concluded at the Beis Menachem Mendel Synagogue in Donetsk, Ukraine. Hundreds of worshippers in this border city with Russia were milling around, waiting for the second night’s community Passover seder to begin.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Chaim Menachem Tiechtel, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Chaim Menachem Tiechtel, OBM, a veteran Chosid and member of the Chabad community in the holy city of Jerusalem.
Memorial to Rebbe’s Murdered Brother Defaced
A memorial to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s younger brother, R’ Dovber Shneerson, OBM, who was murdered by the Nazis YMS in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, was defaced with swastikas – the latest in a string of anti-Semitic incidents in the pro-Russian eastern half of the country.
Info to Be Menachem Avel Reb Yerachmiel Schneider
Reb Yerachmiel Schneider is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, Shraga Feivish, OBM, at 1325 Union St. [corner New York Ave.] Apt. #3 until Thursday Evening. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion V’yerushalaim.
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Menachem and Faigy (nee Schapiro) Schechter (Chicago, IL)
500th Weekly Edition of ‘Living Torah’ a Milestone
In 2004, the Jewish Education Media (JEM) "Living Torah" project shifted from VHS tapes, shown here, to DVD.
On a crisp September morning in 2001, terrorists hijacked and slammed two airplanes into the World Trade Center’s twin towers in Lower Manhattan. Just miles away, Rabbi Elkana Shmotkin, executive director of JEM (Jewish Education Media), was hard at work on a new project.