BREAKING: Just Days After Leaving Quarantine, Kvutzah is Back In
Just days after leaving quarantine in Connecticut, the new group of Kvutza bochurim from Israel who have come in to learn in 770, are heading back into quarantine for two more weeks.
Over 100 Teachers Off to a Good Start With Igud Hamelamdim
The beginning of the school year is a hectic time, especially for Mechanchim. Nevertheless, over 100 teachers and principals took time from their school work to attend an educational and inspirational Chai Elul farbrengen.
Rabbi Moshe Levin, left, with Yosef Cohen, who with his wife, Alona, have donated 4 million masks to Chabad centers.
4 Million COVID-19 Masks Donated to Chabad Centers Before Rosh Hashanah
When Rabbi Moshe Levin of Los Angeles received a call one day in August from his friends, Yosef and Alona Cohen, he was quite taken aback, to say the least. Four Million Masks later, it all makes sense.
MyLife: Chassidus Applied 2020 Essay and Creative Contest Winners Announced
After a long pandemic-induced delay, Rabbi Simon Jacobson announced the winners of this year’s 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest during this week’s MyLife: Chassidus Applied broadcast in honor of Chai Elul.
When the Rebbe Donated $10,000 to an Organization
In the year 5750 (1990) the Rebbe donated $10,000 of his personal money to Colel Chabad throughout the course of the year. Join Colel Chabad’s Tishrei Drive as they set out to feed tens of thousands of Israel’s needy this Yomtov.
Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin Farbrengs For Cincinnati Yeshiva
On Chai-Elul, Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati hosted Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who farbrenged for the bochurim late into the night.
Credit - Evgenia Vodolazskaya
Chabad Rabbi Awarded Medal of Honor First Time in Ukrainian Parliament’s History
Yonatan Markovitch, the Chief rabbi of Kiev, was officially awarded (Yesterday) the Medal and a Certificate of honor of the nation’s parliament – the Verkhona Rada of Ukraine. It is the first time in the country’s history that a Jewish religious leader has been honored with the highest award of the Ukrainian Parliament.
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Visiting the Ohel is for everyone. Jews of all stripes, gentiles, celebrities and politicians. But did you know that you had a gentile neighbor that goes to the Ohel more than you?
How Reb Moshe Feinstein Almost Became Rosh Yeshiva of 770
A unique inside clip on a monumental moment in Chabad history has been released from the archive of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, acquired for his book entitled “Chabad and Gedolim.” The eleven minute clip is of 90 plus year old Rabbi Nosson Greenblatt, the former Rabbi of Memphis, who was a protege student of Reb Moshes in Yeshivas Tiferes Yerushalyim.
The Rebbe’s Original Letter on Chai Elul, 33 Years Ago
In a letter addressed to the fundraising dinner of Colel Chabad, the Rebbe provides insight to the significance of the month of Elul, and encourages the participants to become partners in Colel Chabad’s important work.
Transform Tishrei: Empowering Leadership in our Youth
A new initiative from CTeen, provides a hands on leadership experience to Jewish teens around the world. ‘’Transform Tishrei’’ is a program that shares the beauty of the many mitzvot of the month, with as many teens as possible,
New Shluchim to the Crescenta Valley, CA
Rabbi Mendy and Mushka Grossbaum have been appointed to open the first Chabad center in Los Angeles’ Crescenta Valley.
The Rebbe Asked: Why is There No Hotel For My Guests?
Chai Elul marks a turning point, preparations for Tishrei go into high gear, and Chassidim make the final arrangements for the trip to the Rebbe. In honor of the day, Lahak Hanochos has released a never-before-printed Sicha from Shabbos Nitzavim-Vayelech 5733, where the Rebbe expressed his concern about the situation of the orchim in Crown Heights, and outlined his vision of how it should be.
Chaim Osher Kahanov (far left) was a diamond polisher whose quiet personality belied a larger-than-life biography. Seen here with fellow members of the board of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, including its chairman Rabbi Dovid Raskin (second from right) delivering shmurah matzah to the mayor of New York City, Ed Koch, mid 1980s. Photo: Raskin Family Archives.
Obituary: Chaim Osher Kahanov, 96, Quiet Chassid Who Escaped Soviet Union Twice
Deeply embedded within the biography of Lubavitcher Chassidim in the 20th century is the story of the Great Escape from the Soviet Union. Just after World War II, from early mid-1946 until New Year’s Day 1947, more than 1,000 Lubavitcher men, women and children illegally fled the Soviet Union using purchased or doctored Polish citizenship documents. The story of Chaim Osher Kahanov.
Examining Shochtim’s knives Before Rosh Hashana
Last week, Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, paid an extended visit to Russia’s largest kosher slaughterhouse, where he inspected the knives of the Shochtim, and closely inspected the entire process.
COVID-19 Spares No One. Let’s Step Up to Help Our Needy This Yomtov
This Tishrei, tens of thousands of our brothers and sisters in Israel are in compromised situations and in dire need of food for Yomtov. Colel Chabad is committed to providing for them, and you can help.
CKids Teachers Summit – “Bringing It Home”
“Bringing It Home” is an innovative curriculum for teachers created by CKids, and is tailor made for Hebrew Schools dealing with the handicaps and uncertainty of Corona.
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