Rabbi Yaakov Blotner has served as a Chabad emissary in Worcester, Massachusetts, since 1972. He has specialized in kosher supervision and has also headed up the Jewish Chaplaincy Services, an organization which provides religious services to prisons and mental health hospitals. He was interviewed in January 2026.
The NCFJE is once again hosting the annual Lag B’omer rally at the park for Crown Heights schools, followed by a full-day fair open to the community free of charge.
Ahavas Chesed is partnering with Maimonides Medical Center and they need our help now! Join in this mitzvah and save up to 3 lives!
Mendel Lustig (New Haven, CT) to Basie Zalmanov (Queens, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Aryeh Wuensch (Crown Heights) to Rochele Liberow (Barranquilla, Colombia) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at La Sala 1345 President St
Episode 9 of Conversations in Chassidus with Rabbi Levi Jacobson, about the power of living with the Rebbe’s Maamarim.
Rabbi Shmulik and Menoucha Rachel Amar have recently arrived in Foshan, China, to join Rabbi Gadi and Avigail Louzoun in expanding Chabad’s presence in China’s Guangdong province.
Seventy Jewish boys from across Ukraine gathered in Zhytomyr, western Ukraine, to take part in a unique and uplifting Passover camp held on the Or Avner ‘Alumim’ campus.
With great sadness, we report the passing of Rabbi Chaim Meir Chazan OBM, a shochet and founder of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kiryat Gat. He passed away on Thursday, the 29th of Nissan, 5786.
In the heart of South Florida’s Broward County, the city of Oakland Park is now seeing a Jewish revival with the arrival of Rabbi Sruli and Faigy Mochkin, along with their two daughters.
Sholom Ber and Simi Stiefel from Arcadia, CA had a baby girl!
President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has signed a law introducing criminal liability for manifestations of antisemitism, thereby strengthening state policy in the field of combating discrimination and protecting the rights of national and religious communities.
Firefighters responded to 899 Montgomery Street on Wednesday morning for reports of a fire in an apartment on the building’s sixth floor.
Terrence Smith was knifed in the stomach just after 11 p.m. in front of a Crown Heights building on Eastern Parkway near Utica Avenue with a pediatric office on the ground floor and a dental practice above, authorities said.
More than 500 Jewish women from 45 cities across Russia and Belarus came together Petersburg for a powerful and uplifting Shabbaton, marking the 10th anniversary of this unique gathering organized by the Kollel Torah learning network.
A lower speed limit has been posted for Lincoln Place in Crown Heights, with signs announcing a 15-mile-per-hour limit and future speed bumps going up on the street.
Kentucky’s legislation addressing the handling of unclaimed remains has now officially been signed into law by the governor, making Chabad of Bluegrass a required stop before cremation of unclaimed bodies.
