Organizers of the 34th International Conference of Chabad Representatives held virtually last weekend scheduled a Zoom conference that they intended to last twenty-two hours. It is in its hundred-and-fourteenth hour (!) at the time this article is being posted and still going strong.
To infuse the light of Chanukah in Jewish homes across the English-speaking world, JLI has collaborated with shluchim to create a comprehensive 20-page, full-color Chanukah Handbook. The handbooks are custom-labeled for each shliach.
Friendship Circle of Brooklyn has once again launched its Annual Toy Drive; all toys donated will be distributed to children with special needs and their siblings.
There’s a palpable excitement building up to Chanukah this year. With everything going on across the globe, the illuminating message of Chanukah is waiting to explode like never before. And Merkos 302 is here to light that match for the Shluchim world over.
A Chabad Center in Long Island just got more colorful with a beautiful mural painted by Sheina Dorn.
An alert Crown Heights resident witnessed a suspicious man trying door handles in Crown Heights. He called Shomrim who caught the man inside a vehicle. Job Final: One Under!
The Ahavas Chessed Blood and Plasma Drive that took place Monday was a complete success, packing the days schedule with life-saving donations.
Rabbi Mendy and Mazal Sternbach to establish a Chabad center in Lagos, population 17.5 million
After so many months of remote learning and then summer vacation, the Cheder at the Ohel was delighted to start the school year in person. On Motzei Shabbos, Chof Cheshvan, the Cheder at the Ohel hosted their first of this year, Father and Son Learning and Farbrengen.
Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, made a visit to Kiryas Joel in Monroe, NY Sunday, where he received a tour of the Satmar enclave from the Satmar Rebbe.
The first session of the “Empowering Our Talmidim with Positivity and Resilience” webinar was presented online by Rabbi Michoel Gourarie, veteran mechanech and director of BINA in Sydney, Australia, and focused on the Lubavitch approach to external challenges and how it applies to children.
A storm warning was placed in effect for New York City Sunday evening, and the expected storm did not disappoint.
Thousands of Shluchim and guests sat down Sunday afternoon for a virtual banquet marking the culmination of this year’s Kinus Hashluchim Haolami 5781. We present a gallery of photos from the live event.
With joyous dancing and celebration, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the Crown Heights Sunday afternoon, and paraded through the streets of the community.
It is arguably by far the longest farbrengen ever held virtually, spanning the entire globe and lasting for eighteen hours.
The 34th Annual International Conference of Chabad Shluchim opens today with 5,200 emissaries participating. Instead of taking place in New York this year, the four-day conference will be hosted on a custom-built, virtual platform designed to host an international and interactive event of this magnitude.
No less than three cars had their windows broken overnight as an alarming spike in nighttime car break-ins plague the Crown Heights community.
