Partnering with March of the Living and Chabad Warsaw, artist Yitchok Moully was commissioned to create a memorial for the Holocaust to be part of the program at this year’s March of the Living. Despite the march being cancelled, Moully shares his plan to inject an artistic twist, and bring light to next years march.
Israel Saacks, a Lubavitcher living in Chicago and dispatcher in Chicago Hatzalah, was welcomed home in grand fashion after falling critically ill and being admitted to the hospital for nearly a month.
From an adoptive Morman home, Paul Cooper transformed into Paltiel Ratzenberg, Chabad supporter and the manager of the Zushe band.
After seeing a grotesque display of antisemitism outside the Ohio State House, Shliach Rabbi Aryeh Kaltmann expressed his feelings on meanings that the Holocaust and the present crisis share.
This beautiful new photo collection received from Rabbi Chaim Baruch Halberstam, featuring never-seen-before pictures taken by Shmuel Rivkin, walks viewers through the historic completion ceremony for the “Torah Scroll to Greet Moshiach“.
We regret to inform you of the passing of Former New York City Councilman and Brooklyn judge Noach Dear. Judge Dear was a regular at Chabad Lubavitch Headquarters and consulted with the Rebbe on many occasions while receiving dollars, lekach and Kos Shel Bracha.
Mordechai Chein, a printer by trade whose ceaseless Chassidic dedication turned him into a communal mentor and activist by example, passed away on March 31 from COVID-19-related complications. He was 81 years old.
Jews around the world will participate online today in the Central Kinus Torah, which is held annually at the Central Lubavitch Headquarters in 770 Eastern Parkway, as per the Rebbe’s instruction.
With the understanding that Yeshiva Gedolah’s across the globe will likely be closed through the rest of the zman, the Hanhalos have come together to continue school online.
The story of Rebbetzin Rachel Altein’s life is intertwined with the history of Chabad in America like that of few others. She passed away on April 13 at the age of 95 after complications due to the coronavirus.
For 33 years, Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner has served as a Chabad Shliach in London, England, including 23 years as the rabbi of the Finchely Central Synagogue (from 1983 until 2006). More recently, he has taught at the Yeshivah Centre in Melbourne, Australia. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter Project three times in June of 2014.
As this year everyone will be making the Moshiach Seudah in their home, we present a list of all the negunim to be sung in order, along with audio for those who wish to refresh before Yom Tov.
One of the most time-honored and widely attended synagogue traditions is Yizkor, the hallowed prayer that memorializes departed loved ones in the presence of the Torah scrolls and fellow Jewish mourners. This year, this prayer will be performed at home.
In a farbrengen in the year תשמב where the Rebbe discussed the idea of uniting yidden through writing a letter in a Sefer Torah Klali, the Rebbe mentions that letter may be bought for deceased relatives as well.
JNet’s Director, Rabbi Yehuda (Yudi) Dukes, is battling life-threatening effects of COVID-19 right now. He desperately needs our prayers and Mitzvos – good deeds. Please select a good resolution to take on, in the form of TORAH STUDY, PRAYER or any MITZVAH, in honor of his immediate and complete and recovery.
Rabbi Sholom Eidelman, one of the longest-serving Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in the world—a devoted Chassid, teacher and congregational leader who along with his wife, Gittel, rarely left the North African nation of Morocco since being dispatched there in 1958—passed away in a hospital in Casablanca on April 10, the second day of Passover, after contracting the COVID-19 coronavirus.
The Living Archive presents eleven updated collections of Kos Shel Bracha from Motzaei Pesach throughout the years. Look through these collections for family and friends, and send them a gift of their moment with the Rebbe.
