Chabad centers hosted more than 40,000 guests at Pesach seders in hundreds of cities around the globe. In North America alone, community seders took place in more than 1,000 locations; across Russia, there were nearly 500 seders in more than 200 communities; and seders were held on dozens campuses worldwide.
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Six years ago, Rabbi Moshe Greenwald decided to open a synagogue and Jewish community center at 7th and Broadway, in the heart of a rapidly changing downtown Los Angeles. The feedback wasn’t entirely uplifting.
In this vintage photograph, legendary Chosid Reb Mendel Futerfas engages in animated conversation with an IDF general in Kfar Chabad. Also seen in the photo are Rabbis Shlomo Maidanchik and Berke Wolff.
This week is all about the matzah. But for Rabbi Yisroel Rosenblum, so was last week, and the week before that, and the week before that.
Humans of Amsterdam, a Facebook Page featuring photos of random city-dwellers and their stories inspired by Humans of New York, last Thursday featured a photo of local Campus Shliach Rabbi Yanki Jacobs, who had just delivered a box of Matzah to the Mayor.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Yomtov of Pesach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What Is Yizkor?
A new video posted to YouTube has sparked the interest of the MTA and the NYPD. The video shows an explosion of sparks after a subway train hits something on the tracks at the Nostrand Avenue stop in Crown Heights.
Perhaps one of the most difficult mitzvahs to fulfill properly is the counting of the Omer, which requires that each sequential day be counted (after nightfall) without missing a day – from the second night of Passover all the way until the eve of Shavuot. In addition to remembering to count on each of 49 consecutive nights, the counter needs to verbalize that night’s count and the corresponding Kabbalistic formula—all that before daybreak, or at least before sunset the following evening.
A Chabad Shliach managed to provide a last-minute Passover seder to IDF soldiers in ‘the middle of nowhere,’ guarding the Jordanian border, reports The Jewish Press.
From Moscow to eastern Siberia, and almost everywhere in between, Chabad Shluchim and Bochurim on Merkos Shlichus organized nearly 500 Pesach Sedorim in cities and towns across Russia, which were attended by tens of thousands of Jews hungry for a taste of authentic Judaism.
For the first time ever, the Chabad Jewish Center of Ulyanovsk, Russia, under the leadership of Rabbi Yossi Marozov, organized a Pre-Pesach camp. During the annual spring break, the Chabad Center gave Jewish parents the opportunity to take advantage of the week off school to give their Children a Jewish education.
At the funeral of Rav Shmuel Halevy Wosner, OBM, which took place Sunday in Bnei Brak, 113 people were injured due to a stampede – including a young man who died of the injuries he sustained after being crushed by the crowd.
In this newly-discovered film, the Rebbe can be seen distributing Matzah on Erev Pesach and davening Shachris on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1962. Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, who was present, and whose father filmed these scenes, provides a running commentary.
In Kiev, Yud Alef Nissan, the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s birthday, wasn’t like every other day. Between Farbrengens and other commemorations, the Chief Rabbi and Head Chabad Shliach of Kiev, Rabbi Jonathan Binyamin Markovitch, was honored with a special diplomatic title.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Regional Director of Chabad NSW in Australia, sells the Sydney Jewish community’s Chametz to The Honorable David Clarke MLC, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Justice, in the presence of Rabbi Eli Feldman, Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of NSW.
The Israeli youth who fabricated a missing person’s report, which prompted a massive manhunt by security forces near Chevron on Thursday, was “looking for attention,” the army’s top spokesperson said today.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Ada Herzog, OBM, a young mother and member of the Montreal Lubavitch community. She was 38 years old.
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