The Banquet. It is always a momentous occasion that evokes many feelings. It happens every year at the end of the Global Kinus Hashluchim. But the one that took place a few days ago at the end of the historical Kinus attended by 500 Shluchim from Europe was something special.
On Sunday August 21st the Congress of Shluchim and Lay leader partners of Chabad Argentina was held in the city of Tucuman. To honor the Bicentennial of the Argentine Independence and the Jewish year of Hakhel, a year of gathering for the Jewish people, more than 70 Rabbis representing 40 national institutions of Chabad Lubavitch along with their partners took part in this congress.
In the aftermath of the tragic loss of 13-year-old Avrohom Chaim Feldman, OBM, friends of the family and fellow Mispallelim at Empire Shteibel have set up a funding campaign to help ease the financial burden of the Levaya and burial, as well as other expenses.
These days there are many artists and art-lovers flocking to the exhibition center of Moscow’s municipality to view the paintings of Rabbi Ovadya Isakov, Chabad Shliach and Rabbi of Derbent, capital of Russia’s Dagestan region.
For many young Jewish families in Brooklyn Heights—a neighborhood directly across the East River from Lower Manhattan—Kiddie Korner is the “go to” preschool in the area. The Chabad-run school is so popular that for some time now, there has been a waiting list to get in.
An IDF soldier was shot and moderately wounded while guarding a large group of Orthodox Jews who arrived on a caravan of 16 buses to visit Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Shchem (Nablus) early Thursday morning.
Join Radio host, MC and music maven Yossi Zweig as he drives around with superstar Shlomo Simcha, who just released his new album “Ani Kan,” the first in almost 9 years. Find out how Shlomo got his first big break, some home remedies he uses to keep his voice in shape, and of course some singing.
Rabbi Nachum Zevin serves as the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Eliyahu near Haifa. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in June of 2014.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
For the 8th year in a row, a successful Yeshivas Kayitz was held in Beitar Illit, Israel, under the dedicated leadership of Rabbi Azriel Zelig Wolpo.
What’s a Chabad rabbi to do if he wants to help Jews in the in the Amazon Rainforest keep kosher? Rabbi Arieh Raichman, Chabad representative to Manaus, Brazil, has been chewing on this conundrum for some time now.
Children from Chabad of Northbrook’s Gan Israel Day Camp brought a poster and personally decorated cards to the local police station, thanking the officers for their work to protect all members of the community.
Each summer, thousands seek respite from their busy lives and head to the White Mountains of New Hampshire for some well-deserved R&R. They come for the mountain climbing, cave crawling, hiking the Flume Gorge, driving up Mt. Washington and to see some breath-taking views.
More than 600 people packed the Ventnor, NJ, Beach for the 11th Annual Jewish Summer Fest at the Jersey Shore. The Event was organized by Chabad at the Shore.
The number of New Yorkers with the Zika virus has increased to 505 — 51 of them pregnant women — as city officials are urging New Yorkers, particularly pregnant women and their partners, to refrain from traveling to Zika-ridden countries for the next year.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA), located in Longmeadow, MA, opened its doors yesterday, August 30, for the 2016-17 school year and is proud to welcome its student body for its 71st year of offering excellence in Judaic and secular education to families of the greater Springfield area.
The untimely passing of Rabbi Avremi Groner, a 43 year old loving father, husband, and son, has left the Chabad community in London and around the world in shock.
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