Good Deed Mural Defaced With Anti-Semitic Message
A mural set up outside the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights was defaced Thursday with a blatant anti-Semitic message. The incident is being investigated as a possible hate crime.
62nd Oholei Torah Annual Gala Dinner
This past Pesach Sheini, Oholei Torah celebrated its 62nd Gala Dinner, a major community event and one that was most cherished by the Rebbe.
Student, 14, Dons Kippah at Graduation as Stand Against Anti-Semitism
When Mitchell Leshchiner, 14, walked across the stage of his middle school graduation Tuesday, not only was he proudly wearing his graduation robe and the medals he earned for his various school accomplishments — on this special day he also decided to wear a kippah.
CKids Holds “Camp Training”
300 Crown Heights high school girls came together Sunday to train for their roles as counselors in summer camps across the world.
Prominent Chinuch Experts to Address the 18th Kinus HaMechanchim
The Kinus HaMechanchim, sponsored by the Merkos Chinuch Office will feature Renowned Chinuch Experts at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Danbury CT on 5-6 Tammuz, July 8th and 9th.
Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, an iconic Crown Heights fishmonger for the last six decades, passed away on Shabbat, May 25, at the age of 84. (Photo: Israel Bardugo)
Berel Raskin, 84, Chassidic Fishmonger Who Became a Crown Heights Icon
Sholom Ber (Berel) Raskin, the kosher fishmonger who, glinting cleaver in hand, welcomed generations of customers, visitors and journalists into his pungent Crown Heights fish store and the Chassidic neighborhood he called home, passed away suddenly on Shabbat morning, May 25. He was 84, having spent 65 years living in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to which he arrived as an orphaned survivor of Soviet tyranny and Nazi terror, and where he eventually became an area icon.
Among those who lost a business to tornadoes in Ohio were Zeke and Iris Levi, whose car shop was destroyed. Their daughter, Maytal, a reporter at Fox19 in Cincinnati, broadcast live from Harrison Township conveying to viewers what she was seeing on the ground. (Photo: Maytal Levi)
Jewish Neighborhood Hit Hard as Tornadoes Plow Through Dayton, Ohio
by Faygie Levy Holt – chabad.org The sky over Dayton, Ohio, crackled and flashed. Rain and wind, thunder and lightning spread throughout the Greater Dayton region on Monday night, but it was two massive tornadoes that shattered glass, uprooted trees, […]
Parents of Mesivta Lev Temimim Respond to Yeshiva Closure
In a public statement to the community, the parents of Mesivta Lev Temimim Lubavitch of Monsey respond to the sudden closure of the Yeshiva.
JEM: Letter to the Rebbe’s Brother Uncovered
As part of its “Early Years” research project, JEM recently received correspondence from the Previous Rebbe, Rabbi Yoseph Yitzchok Schneerson, to the Rebbe’s brother, Reb Yisrael Aryeh Leib.
Ukrainian Airlines Profiles Jewish Passengers, “Misplaces” Their Luggage
Ukrainian Airlines seems to have intentionally profiled Orthodox Jewish passengers on a flight this week, in what looks like an inside job to rob them blind.
JEM: Pictoral Highlights #2, Dollars 25th of Iyar 1990
Each time the Rebbe distributed dollars, individuals were touched and lives were impacted. Presented here are photos of several highlights and encounters from Sunday Dollars of 25 Iyar 1990 (5750).
Shluchim Kids Online Lag B’Omer Parade
While children in Anash communities enjoyed local Lag B’omer parades and rallies, young Shluchim around the world attended their very own Great Parade – Online.
Picture of the Day
Stories of Mesiras Nefesh in the Holocaust can be found in books and videos that are your fingertips. But this one story is engraved on the tombstone of a Marine who survived World War Two, and attributes his survival to putting on tefillin and not eating unkosher meat.
Sunshine or Rain, Sunday or in Middle of the Week, Montreal Always Holds a Lag BaOmer Parade
The Chabad community in Montreal, one of the only cities in the world which organizes a grand Lag BaOmer Parade whether its Sunday or in middle of the week, celebrated the yahrzeit of the Rashbi.
Operation Survival: Why Are So Many Teens Self Medicating Today?
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses Teens Self Medicating and Anxiety with Dena Gorkin for the prevention101 series. Dena Gorkin is the Director of Community Education for NCFJE’s Operation Survival, and founder and principal of Bnos Chomesh Academy high school for girls.
Regional JLI Conference Held in Arizona
The past Shabbos Parshas Behar, Shluchim from many Western States gathered for the Western regional Kinus. The first of eleven regional JLI conferences taking place across the globe through the summer, the event was a change from JLI’s national conference in New York.
2nd Annual “Grow Gelt” Conference to Host Shluchim
This summer, Shluchim from all across the country will also visit Lancaster. They are coming for professional development. They will learn and develop new skills in communication and fundraising at the 2nd annual “Grow Gelt” conference.
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