Mrs. Chana Sharfstein of Crown Heights wrote the following poem, which she titled ‘My Pure Daughter,’ as a eulogy for her dear daughter Zlata Esther (“Zlati”), OBM, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 53.
Last Thursday evening, close to a thousands members of the Jewish community of greater Atlanta gathered at the Chabad Center of North Fulton to mark the Shloshim of beloved Shlucha Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, who tragically passed away one month ago.
It’s past 11 o’clock at night at the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a calm breeze passes through the Jewish center’s courtyard. Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz is wrapping up a Torah class he has been giving to 30 Israelis, and a few more sit about chatting. Although a serene quietness envelopes this Himalayan Chabad House, it is less than a week before Passover and Lifshitz still does not have all the supplies necessary to ensure that Kathmandu’s iconic Seder – along with three others held in other parts of the country – can take place.
Close to 200 members of the Folsom, CA Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to celebrate the completion of a brand new Sefer Torah, which will make its home at the local Chabad House, led by Rabbi Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum.
Five Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal in honor of Yud Alef Nissan, marking the Rebbe’s 112th birthday.
Darkness enveloped the five members of the Hike 4 Friendship team as they sat together in the Grand Canyon’s Cave of the Domes. It was Day Two of the hike, and inside the cave was a group of twenty five Boy Scouts. Having all turned off their flashlights, a unique serenity surrounded them deep in the dry cave.
Adam, a young Jewish man, recently graduated university with a major in Philosophy. Yet through all his studies the thing he longed for always seemed slightly out of reach. In search for what he couldn’t find in the pedagogical world of theories he grabbed a backpack and headed East for Rishikesh, India, and sought out the advice of a renowned yogi.
Rabbi Yochanan Gordon, Shliach to Australia’s Tasmanian Island, puts on Tefilin with a Catholic priest whom he discovered is actually Jewish.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Acharei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the appropriate reaction to an overwhelming world?
A group of Bochurim dig with shovels to prepare for the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of 770 in 1988. Can you identify anyone in the picture?
Leah is the stereotypical young entrepreneur: ambitious, smart, and hard working. Realizing that Crown Heights had room for a nice place for parents to buy fashionable clothes for their children at competitive prices, Leah founded Emma’s Children’s Boutique in the heart of the neighborhood to fill the niche.
In honor of the coming holiday of Passover, 3,500 of the neediest Jewish children across the Former Soviet Union are now receiving special clothing packages in the mail.
According to a report by the Anti Defamation League, attacks on Jewish residents in New York City tripled in 2013 over the previous year.
Rabbi Leibel Altein, Chief Editor of Chassidus Mevueres, Director of Heichel Menachem in Borough Park and one of the world’s most renowned and sought after experts in Chassidus, made his way to Yeshiva University on Monday night, April 7th (7 Nissan) for a “Special Chassidus Shiur” put together by YU’s popular Chabad Club.
Early Shabbos morning, April 5th, a shooting took place at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights.
Like many in the small Jewish population of Portugal, Selwyn Berg regularly reads the weekly Torah inspiration—called “Letter From Lisbon”—emailed by Rabbi Eli Rosenfeld.
The Yeshiva Boys Choir, led by Eli Gerstner and Yossi Newman, returns with their latest hit – titled “YI-HA-LI-LU” – just in time for Pesach. The song is accompanied by a captivating music video, filmed in Crown Heights’ very own Jewish Children’s Museum and Grand Army Plaza by CJ Studios.
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