The last Shabbat of the year is when Hashem blesses the month for the coming year. The Baal Shem Tov taught that water is a siman bracha, and for one Chabad House they got a lot of Brachot coming this coming year.
A recidivist Crown Heights package thief was arrested Motzai Shabbos after being caught red handed lifting packages from a Crown Heights building. Shomrim responded, and assisted the police in making the arrest.
by Faygie Levy Holt – chabad.org When Michael and Gail Frye met Chaya and Rabbi Alter Korf a dozen or so years ago, the couple had no idea that they would all become close friends and an important part of […]
The terrorists who carried out the bombing at the Dolev Spring have been arrested. The joint operation carried out by the Israel Security Agency (Shabak), IDF, and Israel Police led to discovery and arrest of the terrorists who killed Rina Shnerb and wounded her father and brother.
With the help from parents and Raskins Fish, Bnos Menachem School for Girls in Crown Heights distributed cases of gefilte fish to their staff to help with the Tishrei expenses.
Monday afternoon, Darchai Menachem Bochurim of Mesivta traded their pens and paper for gloves and aprons and moved their classroom outside. Shochet Rabbi Mendel Marozov and 15 chickens awaited the Mesivta for an all-inclusive Shchita demonstration. Bochurim would take the chickens, hold them for the Shochet, de-skin and carve them, watch the Shochet determine if they were Kosher, salt them, and then barbeque them on the following day for lunch.
At the age of 20, Rabbi Shmarya Katzen was at a crossroads in life. An engineering student enrolled at the University of Maryland in 1964, he was filled with a strong sense of yearning for a deeper sense of purpose in life. An Obituary.
On the 15th of Elul, (14th September) the day on which the Yeshivah Tomchei T’mimim was established in Lubavitch one hundred and twenty two years ago, a special Melave Malka took place in the Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne. The occasion was unique. Two of the Yeshivahs Talmidim, Shneur Schapiro and Mendel Lider, had each concluded their study of the entire Talmud Bavli.
Chabad of South Broward held its 38th Annual Dinner last Thursday night, September 19th, honored Hallandale Beach Mayor Joy Adams. The event took place on a Mega Yacht, featuring a main event room and two floors. Entertainment for the night was given by singer Benny Friedman.
After fifteen years of volunteers publicizing the Shabbat candle lighting times in Moscow, it was decided to double the impact this year and extend the reach of these publications to as many Jews as possible. Thanks to the dedicated work of “Zman Yehudi” organization of Moscow, there is no need to guess the exact halachic times anymore, especially of Shabbat and Yom Tov.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses how to help someone who’s being bullied with Dr. Rona Novick, PhD. Mrs Novick is the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and holds the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values.
In what has become a customary stop for Israeli diplomats, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, visited the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens while on his trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
It is a short walk from the Central Synagogue in Bondi to the Harry Triguboff Centre but a feeling of pageantry as two freshly completed Sefer Torahs were paraded down Bon Accord St to their new home in Flood St in the shul built by Harry.
Men’s clothing store, Under 5’10, has recently brought their dapper styles to the streets of Crown Heights. With the average height of American men being 5’ 10, there are millions of people that fall just below that mark. Under 5’ 10 fills a gap in the market that large retailers have yet to, offering customers a wardrobe that doesn’t need tailoring and allows men to feel confident in their clothing.
Parents, teachers, and high schoolers turned out last night to learn about addiction and become trained in the use of Narcan. The event, organized by Chani Vogel and the Aleph Institute, in partnership with neshamos.org and Amudim, was the first of its kind in Crown Heights.
In a solidarity event coordinated by the Tablet Magazine, Jews from Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, and Poway will be coming together “to show solidarity with communities that have been attacked, blow the shofar as it is the month of Elul, and grab some (free!) apples and honey for the upcoming Rosh Hashanah.”
The Vaad Talmidei HaTmimim’s Hachnosas Orchim arm prepares for a record number of visitors spending Tishrei with the Rebbe, davening at the Ohel, and spending time in 770.
