Today is a historic and joyful day as Oholei Torah celebrates its 70th birthday. Seventy years of chinuch. Seventy years of shaping lives. Seventy years of building generations rooted in Torah, Chassidus, and purpose.
In a powerful sichah delivered by the Rebbe on Shabbos Parshas Shemos 5752(1992), the Rebbe frames galus and geulah not only as eras in history, but as realities that can overlap in the same moment – and even inside the same person.
Rebbetzin Channah Hecht and her husband, Rabbi Sholem Ber Hecht, are the head Chabad emissaries in Queens, New York, where they have served the Sephardic community for the past fifty years. They are the proud parents of fourteen children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was interviewed in December 2025.
Matty Baitelman (Los Angeles, CA) to Fraidy Silver (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
The beautiful, modern, and accessible mikvah was built by the city’s rabbi and Chabad emissaries, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak and Chana Perlstein, with the support of philanthropic organizations and donors from around the world.
Gov. Kathy Hochul rolled out a multi-billion-dollar plan Thursday to offer “free” child care for all two-year-olds in New York City, while expanding pre-K and early child care programs in the rest of the Empire State — with no tax increases, at least this year.
For couples navigating one of life’s most tender and vulnerable journeys, the hope to build a family, Bonei Olam Chabad offers more than resources. It offers discretion, guidance, and unwavering care. It is a reminder that no one has to walk this path alone.
For centuries,we Jews have been trained to look inward. We are a people who demand Tikkun. The Baal Shem Tov taught that every thought, every emotion, and every encounter is a message from the Divine.
Rabbi Moshe Zeev and Chaya Mushka Belinow have been announced as the newest Chabad Shluchim to Luang Prabang, Laos.
Mendel Holzman (Crown Heights) to Tammy Goldsobel (London, UK) L’Chaim: Sunday, Jan. 11th, 6:00pm at Ulam Chana
Yisroel Sheiner (Kfar Chabad, EY) to Itta Chutaretzky (Brooklyn, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:30pm at 1349 President Street
Just weeks after announcing the CKids Gan Israel Overnight Camp Grant, more than $500,000 has already been raised, enough to help 500 children attend overnight camp this summer.
The Vaad Hakohol of Crown Heights will be hosting its second Townhall meeting with its members with a progress update for the residents of Crown Heights and to discuss matters pertaining to the community.
Today at the JFK command, alongside JFK CO Inspector Pomerantz, Sgt. David Zuckerberg received his own pair of tefillin thanks to the amazing Tefillin Project. Sgt. Zuckerberg was honored to have his father retired PAPD Lieutenant Paul Zuckerberg wrap the tefillin for the first time. PAPD Rabbi Mendy Carlebach officiated and Chabad Air was in attendance as well.
40 people were killed and 116 were injured. Many victims had no identification, and parents searched desperately for children who had gone out to celebrate the new year and had not returned. It was later confirmed that three victims were Jewish.
Tonight, as Oholei Torah turns 70, Oholei Torah proudly launches its annual fundraising campaign, centered on a single, powerful theme that has defined the moissed over its past seven decades: Tachlis.
Listen as Chabad singer Avraham Fried puts a new twist on “Shalom Aleichem”, a song sung by Jewish families across the ages to welcome in the Shabbos.
