
Reb Yoel Kahn: Transforming the Self
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Transforming the Self‘.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Transforming the Self‘.
More than 200 new speed cameras are coming to New York City and Long Island, after the state’s Senate voted to authorize them on Wednesday, two days after the Assembly did.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he responds to the question – is everything Hashem created in this world good, and are we obligated to like it all? The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Organizers of The Great Parade have announced the stars that are set to take the stage at this years Lag Ba’Omer Parade.
A powerful Reply Brief filed by Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin and his attorneys uncovers fresh evidence of government misconduct in the withholding of crucial information from the defense that could have radically altered the outcome of the case.
In Rostov-on-Don, as many as 300—both Jews and non-Jews—were present when a plaque at the Zmievskaya Balka memorial site was finally replaced. In a compromise between the Jewish community and local government, the plaque now identifies Zmievskaya Balka as the site of the largest mass killing of Jews by Nazis in Russian territory.
A candid moment was captured on video with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today, when he began to wonder aloud why everyone is constantly taking pictures. “You’re all slaves to your gadgets,” the prime minister quipped.
As one of his first orders of business following the recent elections, Quebec’s new Education Minister, Yves Bolduc, said he will cease subsidizing Chasidic schools that do not teach the state-mandated curriculum, and plans on shutting them down.
Exactly 58 years ago today, the first of Iyar, 1956, three terrorists appeared in the doorway of a vocational School for Moroccan immigrant children in Kfar Chabad, Israel and sprayed the classroom with bullets.
Sources have confirmed to Yeshiva World News that one person has in fact been arrested and charged in connection with the murder of Mencahem Stark, HYD. Kendel Felix, 26-years-old, of 921 Montgomery Street in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was charged with murder in the 2nd degree.
Over 700 people gathered Wednesday night at Yeshiva University’s Lamport Audtorium for an event titled ‘Living the Legacy of the Rebbe and the Rav,’ which explored the relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Y. B. Soleveichik.