With just minutes remaining before the beginning of the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur at sunset, a federal judge in California lifted a temporary restraining order that had banned the slaughter of chickens as part of an ancient atonement rite but allowed the lawsuit that triggered the order to go forward.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman has served as the Chabad emissary of New South Wales, Australia since 1968. In 2002, he received the Medal of the Order of Australia for his service to the Jewish community. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in March of 2015.
Hurricane Matthew hit some parts of the Caribbean hard, and Jewish efforts have launched to help alleviate the situation in ways big and small. While Jamaica was spared the brunt of the storm, the timing coincided with other basic general needs of the local population.
On the eve of Erev Yom Kippur, prior to the performance of Kapporos at midnight, the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami organized a Farbrengen in 770 for the Tishrei guests.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ha’azinu. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What gift do we receive on Shabbos?
Early Sunday morning, Lavon Walker, a former outreach worker from Crown Heights who volunteered with a group dedicated to reducing gun violence called Save Our Streets, was shot to death on a Miami Beach street corner.
Hundreds of Jews began streaming into the yard of the Central Marina Roscha Shul in Moscow in the wee hours of the morning for Kapporos. A team of shochtim, who were appointed by the Chief Rabbinate of Russia, awaits them at all hours.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a pair of photos of the Rebbe blessing those gathered at 770 on Erev Yom Kippur, 1970.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Wednesday, October 12, for Yom Kippur. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Are the High Holidays a time for guilt, or an opportunity to realize one’s true essence? Why are the confessions sung during the Yom Kippur prayers instead of being solemnly recited? Join Rabbi Yoseph Y. Jacobson in this fascinating talk about the path to real repentance, and learn how to uncover the greatness and vast potential that lies within each one of us.
For many years, Rabbi Col. Fishel Jacobs has served as Chabad’s emissary to Israel’s prisons, where he visits incarcerated Jews and provides them with refreshments, words of encouragement and the opportunity to perform several Mitzvos. The following is an excerpt from his memoir, titled Coffee Melts Bars, in which he recounts a Yom Kippur encounter with a hulking middle-aged Russian-Jewish convict named Boris.
The Pinsk Karlin Rebbe, Rabbi Aryeh Rosenfeld Shlita, was seen today buying Arba Minim in Kfar Chabad, Israel.
A Chabad House in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighborhood was broken into early Friday morning and had its handmade charity box stolen. According to police, the same thing happened at a Chabad in Côte-St-Luc two weeks ago.
A young single on the ‘Shidduch Market’ bemoans the seeming difficulty of Shadchanim and parents to accept it when a young Bochur or girl rejects a suggestion, or take it seriously when they express their preferences.
While Jews around the world prepared to dip apples in honey on Rosh Hashanah, Chabad.org had an apple of its own for people around the world to enjoy before the holiday. For the very first time, Jewish.tv — Chabad.org’s premier video site — can be accessed and enjoyed using Apple TV.
A heartfelt kumzitz for a reflective time of year, this video stars singer Mendy Jacobson and the Mezamrim choir in a beautiful rendition of the Niggun Avinu Malkeinu.
Vov Tishrei marks the yahrtzeit of the Rebbe’s mother, Rebbetzin Chana. In connection with this special day, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim prepared a special screening of the Rebbe’s farbrengen of Vov Tishrei, 5742 (1981).
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