On Monday, Australia National Day, Ian Harris was one of 84 individuals to be awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for “service worthy of particular recognition.”
A number of Crown Heightsers are concerned over calls they have been receiving asking for urgent assistance. In many cases the caller asked for a sum of cash to help prevent him from being evicted. The kicker? The caller addresses people by first name and poses as someone they “know by face from 770.”
Three Brooklynites are considering running for the New York State Assembly seat vacated last week by Karim Camara.
In honor of the 65th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s passing on the 10th of Shvat, 5710 (1950), and the Rebbe’s assumption of the Nesius a year later, we present a handful of short stories related by Rabbi Chaim Ciment of Boston, a devout Chossid of the Frierdiker Rebbe, and later the Rebbe.
Yad L’Shliach, an organization dedicated to giving financial assistance to Shluchim and their families, organized a concert at the Levi Yitzchok Library in Crown Heights Tuesday, a day most had off from work and school due to the snowstorm.
Two years and seven months after first going missing, a Florida judge has declared Yehuda Dovid “Guma” Aguiar dead. He first went missing from his boat off the coast of Florida back in June of 2012.
Tonight is Yud Shvat; on this day 65 years ago the Frierdiker Rebbe passed away, and exactly one year later the Rebbe assumed leadership of the Lubavitch movement. We present for out readers a collection of videos and learning material, specially produced and compiled for this auspicious day.
Chabad of Mineola has released a pre-game 2015 Kosher Super Bowl Halftime Show. Hosted by Rabbi Anchelle Perl, the Kosher Halftime Show offers humor and meaningful upbeat insights into Sports Spirituality & Spaghetti!
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, the 5th of Shevat, 5775, a crowd of nearly two-hundred men, women, children and over a Minyan of Shluchim from Pinellas County, Pasco County, Hillsborough County, Venice, and Gainesville, Florida gathered at Chabad of Clearwater to dedicate the four-thousand square foot Tabacinic Chabad Center and launch the ‘CommUnity Torah.’
The students from Cheder at the Ohel come to school every day from all over Long Island, Queens, Brooklyn and Connecticut. Due to the severe snowstorm Monday evening, regular classes were canceled on Tuesday. However, that doesn’t meet that they had to miss a day of learning.
Texas Governor Rick Perry spoke with members of the Jewish community at Chabad of Iowa’s Maccabee Kosher Deli in Des Moines on Monday, one of the last stops on his latest swing through the home of the nation’s first presidential caucus in his likely bid for the White House in 2016.
Charles Roth served as the executive director of the National Jewish Post for 29 years and also worked as a broadcaster for ABC News. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in August of 2009.
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