Russian Communities Join the Shabbat Project
Hundreds of people in communities across Russia and the former Soviet Union took part in the 3rd annual Shabbat Project, celebrating Shabbat worldwide on the weekend of November 11th.
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Video: A Quest for Oiz
This video, produced by Tzivos Hashem and filmed in Crown Heights, follows the quest of a young school boy as he searches for ‘oiz’ – power, and learns an important lesson on how it’s achieved, while collecting cards of the mightiest armies in the world.
Video: The Jewish View Interviews Six-Minute Rabbi
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Chabad Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, Director of Chabad of Dutchess County, who is also known as the Six-Minute Rabbi.
Holocaust Survivor Celebrates Bar Mitzvah at 88
Eighty-eight year-old Holocaust survivor Ben Midler celebrated his Bar Mitzvah this past Shabbat at Chabad of Poway in San Diego, CA.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Thursday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Thursday, November 24, for Thanksgiving. The day after Thanksgiving, Friday, November 25, is not a holiday. Alternate side parking regulations, parking meters and all other parking regulations will be in effect.
Thousands of Teens Celebrate Shabbos with T.G.I.S.
Thousands of teens from across the globe gathered this past week for a Shabbos of inspiration, learning, and unity organized by CTeen international.
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Efforts to Block Chabad Synagogue in Reut Succeed
The residents of the Israeli community of Reut opposed to the construction of a new Chabad synagogue seem to have succeeded in their mission.
Rebbe’s Teachings to Be Studied in Mashpia’s Memory
On Sunday, 19 Cheshvon, the Chabad-Lubavitch community lost one of its most influential and scholarly members, Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel, OBM. In his memory, the Rabbinical College of America, where he taught for half a century, has instituted a “chaluka” of the Rebbe’s teachings to be learned over the next 12 months.
Photo: Lubavitch Archives.
From Days Gone By: ‘Roots’ Concert, 1970s
A group of women sing together on stage in a concert performance of ‘Roots,’ in London, UK, circa mid 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Like Their Fathers, 1,000 Young Shluchim Head to Kinus
For 51 weeks a year, being different is a fact of life for ten-year-old Tzali Myers. He is the only Chassidic boy his age in the entire country of Slovakia, where his parents, Rabbi Baruch and Chaya Myers, have been Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the country’s capital of Bratislava since 1993.
The Secret Recipe for World’s Best Challah Bake
Here’s the secret recipe that was used to make the Great Boston Challah Bake: Take 1,000 women and 100 table captains. Add 2,000 pounds of flour, assorted ingredients, an inspirational program, and some spirited dancing. Mix all together and let rise.
Girls Gear Up for Annual High School Convention
The annual Chabad Inter-High School Convention is gearing up for another spectacular weekend filled with inspiration, unity, and its impact lasts a lifetime.
Tales from the Mitzvah Tank
Writing for the Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper, Allan Ripp profiles one of Chabad’s Mitzvah Tanks – a synagogue on wheels that provide New Yorkers with blessings—and house calls.
Video: Composing a Niggun for the Rebbe’s Birthday
JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project released an unedited clip of an interview that they conducted with the late Reb Ben Zion Shenker, OBM, in his home in Brooklyn, in April of 2010.
Video: How to Live Forever
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one live forever?
File photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the Moscow Jewish Museum. To his left is Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar, and to his right is museum director Rabbi Alexander Boroda.
Moscow Jewish Museum Awarded UNESCO Prize
The Tolerance Center at the Moscow Jewish Museum has been awarded the Madanjit Singh Prize for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence. The award ceremony was held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris.
Photo: Yeshiva World News.
Moishe, Survivor of Mumbai Terror Attack, Turns Ten
No one can forget the tragic terror attack in the Mumbai Chabad House in November 2008 that claimed the lives of Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg HY”D along with many others. The only survivor of the Holtzberg family was little Moishe, who was two at the time, and his faithful caretaker Sandra, who is credited with saving his life. Today, the family recalls the tragedy on the yahrzeit while marking Moishe’s tenth birthday.
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