Having just mourned her passing on Yud Nissan, a mere two months ago, Chabad Lubavitch of Montana has launched a Mezuzah campaign in memory of Mrs. Chana Brook of Kfar Chabad that will bring hundreds of Mezuzot to Jewish families throughout the State.
The Bochurim of Mesivta and Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah prepared for Shavuos with a full-day Yarchei Kallah. Together with member of Crown Heights Anash, they spent an entire Sunday immersed in Torah, listening to fascinating shiurim on various topics related to Matan Torah and the sugyos they are learning in yeshiva.
The Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah – Melbourne) hosted a communal Kinus Torah on Sunday the tenth of Sivan (May 19, 2013). The Kinus was convened in conjunction with Shavuos, as per the Rebbe’s directive that a Kinus be held on, or immediately after, each Yom Tov.
Neighborhood sights: clockwise from top left, the main entrance to the Brooklyn Library’s Central Building; a stroll down the parkway; an old Police Department precinct building; the Brooklyn Museum.
Looking down Eastern Parkway from Grand Army Plaza’s Memorial Arch, past the Brooklyn Public Library, past the Botanic Garden and McKim, Mead and White’s Brooklyn Museum, you might be reminded of Paris and the broad avenues that radiate from the Arc de Triomphe.
Rabbi Mendel Kaplan, left, with celebrants at Chabad @ Flamingo’s current facilities. The new banquet hall will double the capacity and create an elegant environment for Jewish lifecycle events.
Chabad @ Flamingo in Thornhill, Ontario, has big plans to keep on growing. About seven years ago, organizers drew up blueprints to expand the sanctuary and social area. The former was completed, and now they have moved on to the latter—a social hall that will double its capacity, from 200 people to 400.
Crown Heights children were treated to a carnival and show by the French Twins on Montgomery Street in honor of Isru Chag. The outing was sponsored by local businesses.
Rabbi Mendel Mangel puts the challah for Shabbat dinner on the table in his Cherry Hill home.
Despite the number of cooks in the kitchen, preparations to create a Shabbat dinner were moving smoothly. That’s no small feat, and this was no small event – not just because the Mangels are a family with eight children, ages 3 to 19.
Should we all abstain from physical pleasures in order to become more “Holy” before the Almighty? This week’s Parsha, Nasso, presents two somewhat peculiar laws back to back: The law of the Sotah – the wife suspected by her husband of committing adultery and the law of the Nazir – one who takes a vow of abstinence.
Health officials have reported 30 cases of the Victorian-era scourge — with 26 in Borough Park and another four in the Hasidic quarter of Williamsburg.
An explosion near the Chabad House in Katmandu, Nepal turned out to be an airplane crash. Earlier reports of a fire in a hotel were incorrect. 21 people were injured in the accident, where a small airplane crashed while trying to land at a mountain airstrip.