Educators from both Cheder at the Ohel and the Shluchim Online School participated in an important and innovative program regarding child abuse in the frum community. The program took place in Crown Heights and also – for the online school teachers – on the Internet.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Menachem Mendel ben Menucha Rochel, a two-year-old boy who recently underwent a serious procedure and still needs our prayers.
In two separate incidents this week, pedestrians were struck and injured at the intersection of Eastern Parkway and Troy Ave. in Crown Heights.
On Sunday, March 30, Congregation F.R.E.E. of Brighton Beach celebrated the installation of a new stained-glass dome with a lavish reception and dinner for the Russian-speaking Jewish community.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Metzora. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is holiness?
A group of students of the newly established Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in 770 pose for a group photo prior to their departure on Merkos Shlichus, circa late 1940s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
From harvest to packaging, this video takes us through all the steps involved in the making of Shmurah Matzah for the Yomtov of Pesach.
The logo of a local hip-hop group has been showing up as graffiti around Midwood, a largely Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn. Many residents are up in arms, as they say the logo resembles a swastika.
They both grew up blending in easily—he in Brooklyn, she in New Haven. Jewish schools, kosher stores, family and like-minded friends aplenty. Now, with a grant from the Rohr Family Foundation, Levi and Mushky Laine, with their 11-month old baby girl Rivkah, have left it all behind for Hanoi, Vietnam.
Yeshivas Darchei Menachem of Crown Heights has launched an ambitious campaign to raise $50,000 to support the education of their students today, April 1st.
Today marks the Shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Leibel Scheiner, Shliach of the Rebbe to Brighton, Massachusetts, a suburb of Boston. In honor of the occasion, we present the following article on Reb Leibel’s unwavering dedication to his Shlichus, written by his nephew Dovi Scheiner.
Appearing recently on Fox 10 News, Sara Chana Silverstein, a Lubavitcher herbalist and alternative medicine specialist, gave some tips on the health benefits of edible flowers – just in time for spring.
It felt (smelled) like the entire kitchen came out to hug me! But it turned out to be the Mashgiach of the place who after many hours of working in the kitchen carried a blend of aromas on his person. Grilled meat, onions, spices, you get the point. What really made the moment so enjoyable was the fact that one of the last times I’ve seen this guy was him in an orange jumpsuit, in a county jail.
“For us, it’s definitely a first, and it’s definitely a big deal,” said Rabbi Yossi Eber, co-director of Chabad of West Pasco in Trinity, Fla., about mailing out 600 boxes of handmade, authentic shmurah matzah.
Rabbi Mendel Stein, development director of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Oak Park, Michigan, smiles with Randy Gillary as they display the newly installed heart defibrillator he donated to the institution.
Last October, the fifth annual Pier-to-Pier Friendship Walk in southern California broke its personal record by raising $1 million for the sake of special needs children. A few weeks ago, Skechers followed up on their pledge with a check for $318,000, delivered to Rabbi Yossi Mintz, director of Chabad of Redondo Beach, CA and the local chapter of the Friendship Circle.
As a shipping container full of quantities of matzah, wine, grape juice, kosher-for-Passover food stuffs, hagaddahs and other Passover necessities sits in the cargo hold at port in Calcutta, India, with no word of imminent release, thousands of Israelis and other Jewish visitors traveling in Nepal are concerned. A full-blown strike by Israel’s Foreign Ministry that began Sunday, only weeks away from Passover, now leaves many are wondering if the famous Seders in the Himalayas coordinated by Chabad of Nepal, will be cancelled.
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