Torah Café, a project of the Jewish Learning Institute, has compiled a series of ten video lectures and presentations on the subjects of repentance, forgiveness and prayer. Each video corresponds to one of the ten days of repentance between Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur.
The eye of Hurricane Matthew has moved off the northeastern coast of Cuba and forecasters have expanded the hurricane warning area in south Florida, where it is expected to hug the coast on Thursday and Friday.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayelech. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Is G-d ever hidden from us?
As we approach the new year, we pray and wish each other to be inscribed and sealed for a sweet new year with revealed goodness for all. Here JEM presents a beautiful playlist with videos of the Rebbe related to Rosh Hashana.
Chabad.org writer Menachem Posner tells of the fixation that Chicago architects had with doors back in the 1920s when his house was built, and why this benefits his Sofer every year before Rosh Hashana.
A new Jewish community center opened in Moscow yesterday, targeting students of the prestigious International Relations Institute situated next door. This is the first “on-campus” Jewish center in the Former Soviet Union (FSU), where most JCCs are family-oriented and located in residential areas.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday and Tuesday, October 3-4, for Rosh Hashana. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The campers of Gan Israel-New York had the summer of a lifetime; some of those memories were captured on video by videographer Motty Reizes.
Chaim Bhatia, a 20-year-old artist and songwriter, performs his latest composition, ‘Wake Up’ – a song inspired by the Modeh Ani prayer we recite each morning.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
The Maggid had 120 outstanding talmidim. However, there were other great talmidei chachomim who came to the Maggid, but for reasons known to him, they weren’t accepted as his students. Some of them returned home; however, others refused to be denied. If they wouldn’t be accepted as a talmid, they would serve as a shammas. They would clean the beis hamidrash and take care of errands. They would learn from the great Maggid through serving him.
A new edition of Advice for Life: Daily Life was recently published. With a fresh design and additional material, it makes a great coffee table book and gift. In honor of the occasion, we present a story that appears in the new edition.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Berel Levin will lead a discussion on the topic: The Halachos of Shofar.
Watch this fascinating and inspiring Shiur on Rosh Hashana by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
A pre-Rosh Hashana event was held in Toronto City Hall, with the attendance of Mayor John Tory and several MPPs.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe receiving a Pan from Reb Mendel Futerfas on Erev Rosh Hashana, 1968.
As we approach Rosh Hashana, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the right and the wrong way of doing teshuva. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
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