Nine American and Israeli victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks have demanded a compensation of $688 million from the Pakistan-based perpetrators of the terror assault, including the chiefs of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT).
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Yochanan Lowen, 36, a former member of the Montreal Chasidic community, is suing the Quebec government for not rigorously enforcing its educational curriculum standards on private Chasidic schools, whom he calls ‘illegal’ and blames for his ‘substandard’ education.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How carefully must we avoid gossip?
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he clarifies what is – and is not – the role of a Shliach. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Children attending the first ever Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim, in the fall of 1994, pose with their counselors for a group portrait in front of 770. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
In a departure from convention, a group of Muslims youth participated at a memorial in Berlin marking the 76th year of Kristallnacht. Also known as the “Night of Broken Glass” for the glass storefronts of Jewish businesses and synagogues that were shattered and smashed on November 9 and 10th in 1938, Kristallnacht foretold the coming Holocaust.
An unusual-looking school bus decked in ‘Na Nach’ stickers and paint and blasting joyous music made a surprise visit to 770 Eastern Parkway last night, and caught the attention of many curious bystanders.
Yonathan Souid, 23, a Jewish college student from France who arrived in New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton in Crown Heights last weekend, was arrested by the NYPD for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge for a photo shoot.
The attack of a Chasidic man in a Brooklyn subway station is being investigated as a hate crime by the NYPD.
24 years ago, in the summer of 1990, 8-month-old Mendel joined his parents, Rabbi Moishe and Miriam Moskovitz, as one of the first families of Shluchim to the Soviet Union as communism began to fall. They moved to Kharkov, which was then part of the USSR, as Shluchim of the Rebbe to a Jewish community that had just gotten back its Shul from the government.
With barely 30 hours left until the start of the International Kinus Hashluchim, thousands of ‘welcome bags’ have been prepared by Merkos and are ready to be distributed to the Shluchim upon registration.
In the November frost, two-dozen men gather for morning prayers at the only synagogue in Lugansk, Ukraine. They don tefillin, praying by the gray daylight shining in through the building’s windows and skylight. One man, Valodia, is fluent in Hebrew and reads from the Torah scroll for the quorum.
After his video on the proper way to don a Talis Gadol according to Chabad custom stirred some Machlokes L’shem Shomayim, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin has returned with a similar instructional video on how to properly don a Talis Koton.
At around 3:00pm this afternoon, a Hatzalah ambulance transporting a patient to the hospital crashed into another vehicle at the intersection of Kingston Ave. and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.
A pair of sophisticated burglars wearing ski masks and gloves broke into Albany Bakery in Crown Heights last night, and made off with a substantial sum of cash. A surveillance video captured footage of the daring robbery, which took less than 15 minutes from start to finish.
Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Paris, France, passed away two weeks ago after a stroke. Azimov built more than three dozen communities, but will be remembered for the personal bonds he developed with thousands who regarded him as their personal mentor.
At this year’s annual Agudas Yisroel convention in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Executive Vice President Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel related a fascinating and insightful story about the Alter Rebbe, which occurred during the period he spent in the czar’s prison.
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