The response to last week’s article about our custom of saying Tehillim, and when it should be said, was much more than I anticipated. Many people emailed me or spoke to me personally asking me for details and when should they say their personal Tehillim. So this week, I am following up with an article about the history of learning the daily portion of the Parsha.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman shows how Hashem has given us the “roadmap” to life. It may be counter intuitive, but it works.
The cafe on the center’s ground floor looks like any other stop along the trail. Everything on the menu, however, is kosher, down to the chalav Yisrael dairy and pat Yisrael baked goods.
The officer kept encouraging him. And right there on the sidewalk, in the middle of an ordinary day, he put on tefillin.
Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
The IDF reported on Friday morning that five Israelis were injured, two critically, in a shooting attack near Judea Junction near Hebron.
Menachem and Rivka (nee Kamnitzer) Rotenberg from East Flatbush had a baby boy! Sholom Zachor: 663 Lenox Rd
Less than 24 hours after a woman followed him along a Manhattan sidewalk and stabbed him in the back, Chabad rabbinical student Yosef was back in Midtown dropping in on Jewish merchants and craftsmen in the Diamond District to help them don tefillin.
As we learn now about Avraham, father of the Jewish people, who began to teach and spread the idea of monotheism, we are sharing an essential letter of the Rebbe where he explains to a scientist the essence of Jewish monotheism, with a clarification of the concept of unity.
With great sadness we report the untimely passing of Chaya Menucha Borenstein OBM, the young daughter of Reb Yakov Dovid and Esther Ahuva Borenstein. She passed away suddenly on Thursday, the 11th of Cheshvan, 5787.
Mendel Kamman (Toronto, Canada) Miriam Prus (Doylestown, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
US Senator Steve Daines and Montana’s Lubavitch Shliach Rabbi Chaim Bruk traveled to Poland together to visit the The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial in Oświęcim, where 1.1 million people, mostly Jews, were murdered.
Mrs. Sarah Mindel Shemtov, a former Bais Yaakov and Bais Rivka teacher, has been involved in various Chabad girls’ and women’s programs for over seventy years. She was interviewed in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in August 2026.
When Davening ended, the Rav walked over and told the Bochurim he had been so moved by the way they Davened Maariv that from now on, he wanted them to come every week, and speak.
Organizers issued an advance notice for visitors: If you plan on visiting the Ohel this Sunday, you may experience long lines between 9:00 am -12:00 pm and 3:30 pm – 6:00 pm.
New York City has officially reached 600 intersections equipped with red light cameras, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Wednesday, declaring another milestone in the city’s ongoing effort to make its streets safer.
Children heading to the Ohel will have an additional opportunity to join the monthly Ohel Rally this coming Monday, October 26, with organizers announcing an added stop in Rutland and Albany for the trip.
