As a young child, Rabbi Psachya Korf arrived to the emergency room after a terrible house fire. Doctors scrambled to airlift him to a special treatment center and warned his parents that his prognosis was not too optimistic. That’s when his father, Rabbi Pinchas Korf, rushed to the Rebbe for a blessing.
Rabbi Chananya Yosef Eisenbach, a renowned Chabad-Lubavitch rosh yeshivah (academy head) and author of many scholarly Torah works who served Jewish schools and communities in Israel and Argentina, passed away on Feb. 12 due to complications from the coronavirus. He was 77 years old.
The year was 1497. Just five years after leaving his native Spain due to the Edict of Expulsion, Rabbi Avraham Saba stood tearfully beside an olive tree outside of Lisbon, Portugal. There, under what he described as a “tree of tears,” he buried his most precious possession, his manuscript commentary on Chumash, Pirkei Avot, Ruth and Esther. Rabbi Saba was never permitted to return to Portugal to recover his manuscripts or his family.
When Gabi and Avremy Shapiro first started the Shavua Newsletter, they didn’t expect it to quickly grow to a popular 30-page newsletter, but it sure did.
Purim at Chabad of Georgetown this year, headed by Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg, was back in full force with close to 150 attending the Purim meal that went straight into Shabbat.
Jewish Enrichment Press has released a new book by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, host of our weekly Motzoei Shabbos Chabad History Program. The new book is titled “Chabad and Gedolim II.”
Watch a recap of this years Halikut Siyum from the Vaad Hatmimim. The siyum was attended by 300 bochurim and included a first-of-its-kind crossfire panel and special video presentation.
Following on the heels of the successful two week series of “Bringing Divinity into Marriage” that had over 1500 registrants, Mikvah.org has arranged a webinar to speak on this topic specifically for women experiencing primary or secondary infertility on Wednesday, 19 Adar – March 3, at 8:30 PM EST.
The Jewish holiday of Purim was celebrated “Arctic Style” with more that 150 participants enjoying a creative and Covid-safe event at Chabad’s “Purim in the Arctic” party.
“The show must go on”, and the girls of Lubavitch Girls High School in Chicago, IL are putting on a production for all.
The topics in this week’s 346th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: How Do I Deal With a Serious Setback – Loss, Trauma, Death and Other Hardships? What Are the 13 Attributes of Mercy, and How Can We Use Them in Our Daily Lives? Why Did Moshe Break the Tablets? Why Was It Necessary to Create a Second Set of Tablets? Why Is Idolatry Such a Severe Sin and Why Would G-d Be “Jealous” of False Gods? Did the Rebbe Ever Publicly Say a “Purim Torah”? How Could Esther Commit Adultery in Order to Save the Jews, but Mordechai Was Not Allowed to Bow to Haman?
Courtesy of @Lubavitchar, CrownHeights.info presents a photo gallery from Purim day in 770 Eastern Parkway.
Jewish Educational Media (JEM) has filed a lawsuit in New York’s Eastern District Court against RebbeDrive over alleged copyright infringement.
Purim festivities went full swing at Moscow’s Marina Roscha Shul, with davening, Megillah Leinings, and celebrations.
“Is Today A Kapotah Day?” It might sound like a simple question, but in Lubavitch it’s not. To help the many Lubavitch men struggling to stay abreast of the days special fashion need, an enterprising individual created a website that provides a simple and straightforward answer to the question.
A COVID-19 outbreak has prompted Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh to switch to online learning, and several Pittsburgh-area synagogues with ties to the school either canceled or scaled back their in-person celebrations of the holiday of Purim as an additional precaution.
Right before Purim, Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati received the great news: The City of Cincinnati had approved the permit to remodel the Yeshiva building as a replica of 770.
