An NYPD officer from the 77th Precinct stopped inside 770 for a quick visit during Shachris Thursday morning. Upon discovering that he is Jewish, the Mispallelim honored him with Hagbaha – the lifting of the Torah.
A contractor doing work on a Jewish home in Crown Heights was suddenly shocked to discover that a man was stealing valuable tools and equipment from his work van. He confronted the man and demanded that they be returned, but instead the man attacked him with a screwdriver he had just stolen.
It was a full house for the the 33rd annual Siyum at Yeshiva Gedolah Lubavitch-London, which celebrated the completion of Mesechtas Gittin by a number of its Talmidim.
This Monday, JEM will be starting a 10-part series over WhatsApp on the topic of parenting. The videos will be sent to the over 7,000 subscribers of their daily videos broadcasts.
In what is being reported as a “first in the world”, two Orthodox-Jewish twin sisters in Israel, who are married to twin brothers, gave birth to girls 20 minutes apart.
A Crown Heights teen, 11th grader Chanie Gorkin, is getting credit for writing an uplifting poem that has been getting a lot of attention on social media in the United States and especially the United Kingdom.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during the distribution of dollars in the large Shul of 770, taken in the early 1990s.
Yanky and Melissa Laine (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of Tisha B’av, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the story of Kamtza and Bar Kamtza and how it explains the reason for the churban Bais Hamikdash. From the cause of the problem, says the Rebbe, we can learn the solution. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal enjoyed the first month’s grand trip to La Ronde, an amusement park in Quebec.
Brooklyn’s Orthodox Jews are arming themselves with potentially deadly weapons – their own bodies: CBS2 reports that a growing number of religious Jews are taking self-defense classes in martial arts with Sensai Steve Issak who developed and teaches a course he calls Shima Juijitsu.
The Mesivta division of Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France, gathered together Monday for a Kinus Torah, celebrating the completion of Maseches Brochos, which the students diligently studied throughout the year.
Writing for Forbes, Crown Heights entrepreneur Zalmi Duchman explains why Uber’s victory over New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is a victory for all entrepreneurs, and brings as an example a new successful startup by two fellow Crown Heightsers – Menachem Light and Sam Jurkovitz – to illustrate his point.
Six IDF soldiers who were injured during last summer’s incursion into Gaza experienced Canada as part of an eight-day trip co-sponsored and organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project.
Mendy and Miriam (nee Andrusier) Rosler (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Shabbos Chazon and Tishah B’Av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Thousands of protesters packed into Times Square Wednesday evening to demand that Congress vote down the proposed U.S. deal with Iran.
Rabbi Azriel Chaikin has been the Rebbe’s emissary in Morocco, Scandinavia, Belgium and Ukraine since 1955. He was interviewed three times in JEM’s My Encounter Studio, once in 2010 and twice in 2015.
When Kata Nádas, 31, a Hungarian Jew, first began attending Chabad programs at sixteen, her parents were concerned. Their associations with Judaism were all dark: more than a half a million Jews were murdered by the Nazis with the assistance of local Hungarians, and anti-Semitism was on the rise in the country.
With the assistance of Shomrim, an officer from the NYPD’s Brooklyn South Division visited several Crown Heights Jewish day camps to encourage their attendance at the annual NYPD vs. Hatzalah baseball game, which will take place on August 3rd at the Cyclones stadium in Coney Island. Upon discovering that the officer is Jewish, Rabbi Zalman Karp of Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp immediately did what any Chabad Chosid would do, he helped the man put on Tefilin right there in the office.
In early spring, Oholei Torah purchased camp grounds spanning 120 acres, located in the upstate town of Kingston, NY, for the sake of founding a Yeshivas Kayitz for 8th Graders and Mesivta Bochurim who are looking to spend their summer in a chassidish learning environment together with a positive and productive summer experience.
She may be an Orthodox Jew but a California mother of four has taken an unorthodox approach to stopping drivers from texting while they drive by encouraging drivers to turn their cars into mobile billboards bearing anti texting messages.