Pegisha Kicks Off With Almost 2,000 Students
Pegisha is underway. Almost 2,000 participants from more than 160 universities across six countries are in Crown Heights this weekend for Pegisha, hosted by Chabad on Campus International.
HY’D: Two IDF Soldiers Die In Terror Attack Near Chevron
Staff Sergeant Ron Yonatan Roytman, aged 23, from Ashkelon, a squad commander in the Ari Battalion (775), Search and Rescue Brigade, and Sergeant Yuval Shai Svilem, aged 20, from Hod Hasharon, a combat soldier in the battalion, fell in combat during the shooting attack on Friday morning at the Judea Junction.
Baby Girl!
Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hollywood, FL had a baby girl!
Weekly Story: Chitas #2
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.
Weekly Dvar Torah: Go to Yourself, Change the World – From Noach’s Ark to Avraham’s Journey
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.
Alongside the busy Eastside Trail of Atlanta’s BeltLine, Chabad Intown has opened 'Milk and Maple', a new kosher café and place for Jews to connect.
On Atlanta’s BeltLine, a Kosher Coffeehouse Is Brewing Jewish Connection
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.
You Never Know Where A Workday Will Take You – The Chabad Version
The officer kept encouraging him. And right there on the sidewalk, in the middle of an ordinary day, he put on tefillin.
New Engagement!
Menahem Mendel Bredoire (Paris, France) to Haya Mouchka Sebag (Paris,France)
Terrorists Eliminated, Two Critically Injured in Shooting Attack Near Judea Junction
The IDF reported on Friday morning that five Israelis were injured, two critically, in a shooting attack near Judea Junction near Hebron.
Baby Boy!
Menachem and Rivka (nee Kamnitzer) Rotenberg from East Flatbush had a baby boy! Sholom Zachor: 663 Lenox Rd
A Day After Midtown Stabbing, Young Rabbi Is Back in Diamond District
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.
Weekly Letter: The Essence of Jewish Monotheism
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.
BDE: Chaya Menucha Borenstein, OBM
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.
New Engagement!
Mendel Kamman (Toronto, Canada) Miriam Prus (Doylestown, PA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
Shliach Escorts US Senator on Moving Visit To Auschwitz
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.
Here’s My Story: The Ten-Year-Old Counselor
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.
“I Watched You Daven Maariv”: How a Bochur Davening Maariv Won Over a Chassidishe Rav
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.
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