It’s a spectacle that could frighten just about anyone. Cemeteries can be uncomfortable places, but this one—the Mount Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles, Calif., and its dilapidated state—brought a rabbi to tears.
Watching the gentrification of Crown Heights is like watching Williamsburg at warp speed.
An agency that has been offering interest free loans to those in need for over 100 years has recently set its sights on a particular demographic, Brooklyn’s chasidic community, lending over $1.5 million dollars over the past several years to locally owned businesses.
An incredible day of unity and fun for South Florida camps was organized by Rabbi Shmuly G. of Chabad Youth Network of Florida. CGI Bal Harbor, CGI Parkland, CGI Miami, CGI Hallandale and CGI Sunrise all joined together for the experience.
Neturei Karta activists attended the annual Al Quds Day rally on Shabos in Toronto, Canada, during which the former president of Canadian NGO “Palestine House” openly called for Palestinians to embark on an ethnic-cleansing of Israelis.
Mendy Paul, a Lubavitcher bochur from Morristown, NJ, has launched a crowdfunding campaign called “The Yeshiva Guide for the Perplexed”. The project aims to provide valuable information to parents and bochurim looking to choose the right yeshiva for the coming year of study.
Dozens of Chabad families from all over France are participating in the annual Torah study retreat, which takes place over several weeks in the French Alps. The seminar is organized by Beis Lubavitch of Paris, under the leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Azimov.
This past week Machne Yisrael Day Camp in Queens held a grand concert, with its very own assistant Head Counselor – the one and only “Mendy J” (Jacobson) – singing.
After donning tefillin with a colorful collection of Jews he met throughout his two week travels, Benjamin Kogos, a Staten Island, New York native and public school attendee, seems to be starting his own mivtzoim route. On Sunday, he reported on the CTeen X-Treme’s group Facebook page that he had just gotten two Jews to put on tefillin.
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