In November 2019, Patty and her children had ‘adopted’ a 91-year-old woman named Madeline Jug. A child survivor of the Holocaust, Madeline was left with a life-long injury to her leg. Unable to live in her current accommodations, the local Chabad galvanized the community to help out.
Mrs. Rochel Yehudis Charytan, longtime Chabad-Lubavitch emissary to Winnipeg, Canada, passed away on the first day of Passover after a lengthy illness. She was 65 years old.
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents filtered into Oholei Torah Tuesday afternoon to have their blood tested for COVID-19 antibodies at the highly successful Save a Life Day Event in Crown Heights.
In a letter addressed to Rabbi Raskin of London, England, Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who famously became the name behind a treatment plan for COVID-19, updates on the outcome of his famed treatment plan, and hits back at his critics.
Rabbi Eliyahu Bakshi-Doron, who served as Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi (Rishon Letzion) between the years of 1993 and 2003, passed away on April 12, in the middle of Passover, as a result of the coronavirus (COVID-19). He was 79 years old.
Rabbi Binyamin Wolff was dedicated to his family, his work and the Jews of Hanover, Germany. Fifteen years ago, the rabbi and his wife, Sterni, arrived in the capital of Lower Saxony and established Chabad-Lubavitch of Hanover. In a short time, the passionate and dynamic couple transformed the city’s Jewish landscape and the lives of countless individuals. On Friday evening, April 24, not long after the onset of Shabbat, Rabbi Wolff tragically passed away at the age of 43.
With schools getting back in session online, JEM and Tzivos Hashem have announced that Connection Point is looking at resuming its regular programming as part of the school curriculum. They did assure the public, however, that it will all be available online. Each school will be able to run it on their own online platforms.
The Shloshim for Gershon Sabol will take place over zoom Monday night. All are encouraged to attend, and are asked to submit personal messages and stories through email.
The annual France Regional Kinus Hashluchim took place as scheduled despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The shluchim gathered virtually online, using the zoom platform to bring them all together.
Viking Distribution has become the latest to join the army of chesed in the community by subsidized hundreds of Chromebooks for students to be able to join classes that have now moved online.
The Levaya of Rabbi Binyomin Wolff OBM, Shliach to Hanover, Germany, took place today in Hanover. The Levaya was live streamed for all to participate.
Lubavitch photographer Mordehai Lubecki took to the streets of Paris to document a rare sight, lack of humanity. As the COVID-19 virus locks down cities worldwide, a new beauty, that of empty streets and unpolluted skies, are being documented in still photographs.
Photographer Mendy Kurant shared the following gallery of photos of Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Schwei OBM, a member of the Crown Heights Beis Din who passed away on Friday.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Moshe Zaklikovsky OBM, Shliach and Rov of Detroit Michigan, and famed proofreader of the Sefarim published by Kehos. He passed away over shabbos, the 1st of Iyar, 5780.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Shwei OBM, one of the members of the Crown Heights Beis Din. He passed away on Friday, the 30th of Nissan, 5780.
With the help of Crown Heights Shomrim, a thief attempting to steal tools from a construction site was arrested Thursday and charged with trespassing. Job final: One Under.
As thousands of Jewish families in the Midwest enjoyed fresh, chalav Yisrael milk over Passover, few knew that their dairy drink was due to the efforts of a humble CPA named Yitzchok Eliyahu (Irwin) Kosofsky, who passed away just prior to Passover at the age of 89 years old.
