The Kellner family are no strangers to challenges. With two special needs children, Rabbi and Mrs. Kellner embraced their lot with love, raising their beautiful children with grace. But then, their most caring and devoted mother was suddenly summoned to the Kisei haKavod. Tomorrow, Wednesday, their dedicated father שמואל נחום בן לאה will be going in for open heart surgery.
29 years ago, on the 2nd of Adar Aleph, Mrs. Pesha Leah Lapine, HYD, was murdered al kiddush hashem. The horrific killing shocked the community, and the Rebbe took it very personally – attending her Levaya with pain visible on his face. A gallery of photos from that Levaya was acquired and restored by JEM, and can be viewed in the extended article – along with the translated diary of an Israeli Bochur who transcribed his firsthand account of the events of that fateful day.
Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski, a Chassidic rabbi, psychiatrist, prolific author of more than 60 popular books on Jewish spirituality and recovery from substance abuse, and founder and longtime head of the Gateway Rehabilitation Center in Pittsburgh, Pa., one of America’s leading facilities for addiction treatment, passed away on Jan. 31 in Jerusalem from complications from coronavirus. He was 90 years old.
Just as New York City hunkered down for a nor’easter set to blanket the city in up to two feet of snow, someone in Crown Heights felt the need to try to shoot someone else. No injuries were reported in the incident.
A few years after successfully organizing women around the world to distribute about 100,000 boxes provided by Rabbi Shlomo Friedman, administrator of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, Friedman decided that he wanted to provide something specifically for younger girls, in line with the Rebbe’s vision.
Hadar Hatorah’s recent Winter YeshivaCation was packed with students from all over the United States and Canada. Despite numerous challenges initially, the program turned out to be a tremendous success.
Today (Wednesday), representatives of the Jewish community of Kyiv led by Yonatan Markovitch, Rabbi of Kiev and chief Chabad emissary, planted seven trees at the Babi Yar memorial in commemoration of the 6 million Jewish lives taken by the Nazis and their henchmen.
It’s Tu B’Shvat already, and Mr. Greens on Albany Ave is well prepared. As everyone searches for a new fruit to make a Shehecheyanu on, Mr. Greens has arranged for a wide variety of exotic and delicious fruit for any palate.
This past Monday the boys division of Cheder Menachem of Kingston traveled to the Rebbe in honor of Yud shevat. They started with a visit to the Ohel and then continued on to 770 and the Rebbes library.
Hundreds of shluchim across the US and around the world are preparing to launch the JLI winter course, Journey of the Soul next week. The course will provide continuing education credit to the doctors, psychologists, and other mental health professionals who attend thanks to a partnership with the Einstein College of Medicine to offer AMA and APA-approved courses.
From the moment they were informed that their test came back positive for Covid-19, Chabad of Nigeria escorted the family all the way to the airport 10 days later.
Yeshiva Tiferes Bachurim in Morristown, NJ has announced a new tech training program as they pair with Adaleg-IT, which teaches programs such as IT Networking, Python Programing, Full Stack Development, Data Science and Machine Learning and Cloud technology.
Rabbi Hanoch Gechtman, the Shliach of the Rebbe in the city of Gedera brought the key to the city from the local council to the library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad.
The Talmidei Shluchim to Yeshivas around the world are often described as the engine of the entire Yeshiva. It is they who tirelessly devote themselves to the spiritual well being of every Talmid in their respective Yeshivos. In light of the above, the Vaad Hatmimim has presented a global learning initiative geared especially to these bochurim, all learning the same topics in chassidus.
Rabbi Yehuda (Yudi) Dukes, a pioneering online teacher and director of JNet, an organization that connects Jews around the world in Torah study—and whose faith and good spirit during a valiant, months-long battle with the coronavirus inspired people around the world—passed away on Jan. 21. He was 39 years old.
The Vaad Hatemimim has released a complete schedule for the 17th Annual Kinus Hatmimim taking place at the Rosa Hall in Crown Heights, with an impressibve linup of Shiurim and farbrengens lasting an entire weekend.
Vaad Hatmimim’s new “Iberleben” program has Bochurim is Yeshivas across america learning and reliving the Farbrengens of the Rebbe. For the past two weeks the Bochurim have been learning and reliving the Farbrengen of Yud Shevat 5711 in honor of 70 years.
