Vast cosmic secrets appear couched in the dramatic events surrounding the deathbed blessings bestowed upon Yosef’s two sons Menashe and Ephraim by our saintly forebear Yaakov. The cryptic narrative seems to alert the reader to uncanny Divine insight on the part of Yaakov, the purveyor of the blessings, regarding the future of the two emerging tribes and the nation of Israel as a whole.
This Sunday, more than 2,000 people attended a historical event concluding a series of over 60 events that were attended by nearly 60,000 people – marking the 120th birthday of the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Valley Chabad Friendship Circle, a group of teen volunteers dedicated to providing companionship for children with special needs, congregates to listen to a mother’s story of parenting a disabled child.
A New Jersey mother who helped shape Valley Chabad’s Friendship Circle, a program that aims to provide companionship for special needs children, revisited the program nearly a decade later to tell her own story of parenting a disabled child.
On Sunday, Hei Teves/December 8th, hundreds of thousands of people across the Tri-State area tuned in to the Chanukah Telethon of Chabad of Mineola, Long Island. This annual broadcast is a beacon of ‘Yiddishkeit,’ spreading the warmth of Torah and tradition while demonstrating the most essential quality of Judaism – helping those in need.
Twelve year old Estee Ackerman of West Hempstead, NY won the fourth annual ‘Jewish Kids Got Talent’ competition held on Monday, December 9, 2013 at The Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn, NY.
A 12 year old West Hempstead girl who bowed out of a National Table Tennis tournament last winter because it conflicted with Shabbos, took first place honors at this year’s Jewish Kids Got Talent competition, beating out eight other finalists in the annual contest.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Asara B’Teves for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
It was the last night of Chanukah, December 26, 1992. We had just lit the last Chanukah candle and my father was driving me to the airport. As we drove he told me, “Always remember that on the 8th night of Chanukah you left South Africa to begin a new life in Israel.”
Jewish students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire learned about the love of the Land of Israel from Golani fighter Ziv Yitzhaki, who was wounded in the second Lebanon war.
Incoming Brooklyn Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, who set off a firestorm last week with a Facebook post that blamed some “knockout game” attacks on tensions between blacks and Jews, once invited a known race ranter to speak at her museum.
Snow began to fall in Jerusalem Thursday morning, in has been described as the heaviest December storm since 1953. The winter weather system intensified across the country since it began Tuesday night.
For the last six years, the living room in the small, Morgantown, W. Va., home of Rabbi Zalman Gurevitz and his wife, Hindy, has been packed with up to 35 guests each Friday night.
A new song on singer Lipa Schmeltzer’s latest album has listeners wondering if perhaps this time the colorful singer has taken things a step too far as he takes on an unusual topic: beards.
On Sunday, Hey Teves, the Talmidim of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles, California were privileged to view the original copy of the first known existing letter written by the Rebbe to the Rogatchover Gaon in 1925. It is printed in Igros Kodesh, Chelek 21.
The latest vehicle to be victimized by the wheel thieves operating with impunity and devastating car owners all over Crown Heights, was a BMW sedan parked on Brooklyn Ave. between President and Carroll Streets.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha - Vayechi. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What can one do if he/she is experiencing low self esteem?
A doctor who developed the measles vaccine recently urged members of ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities to vaccinate their children, noting that those communities who refused the 50-year-old vaccine were linked to a third of US measles cases last year.
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