This week, “Our Story,” the beautiful weekly story especially for women and girls, presents a story told by Mrs. Chava Altein. JEMCentral presents the story along with the transcript of the Rebbe’s answer.
A hit and run scene straight from the movies unfolded in Crown Heights Friday afternoon. The man attempted to flee the scene, but was caught and held by alert members of the community. A gun was recovered from the scene, and the man arrested.
The Jewish holiday of Purim had a double dose of joy at Chabad of Orange County this year. The community celebrated together at “Purim in Paris” as well as the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony of Yossi Burston, son of Chabad directors Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe during the reading of the Torah, circa 1965. Can you identify the date or anyone in the photos?
This Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Yosef Dovid Chanowitz is a Kosher Field Representative for the OK kosher Certification. He will be speaking on the topic of The prohibition of Kitniyos on Pesach: The origin of the Minhag, the reasons and it’s application nowadays.
There are no traffic lights in the historic village of S. Miguel de Allende, Mexico, but now there is Chabad. Rabbi Daniel and Raizel Huebner, and their three children, moved to the city just before last Chanukah and have begun producing programs for the Jewish community.
Japan’s famed cherry trees are in full blossom, tourists are streaming in by the trainload with ooh’s and aah’s over Kyoto’s traditional architecture and serene rock gardens, and the (often kosher) sake is as delightful as ever. Just before Passover, it’s the perfect time for Rabbi Dovid and Chaya Mushka Posner, and their infant son Menachem Mendel, to found the city’s first permanent Chabad House.
For the first time, a Purim Party was celebrated for the soldiers and employees of Aberdeen Proving Ground a US Army facility located in Maryland, thanks to the efforts of Maryland Shliach Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum and the Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland-Chabad (JUSA).
Israeli cave explorers said Thursday that a salt cave with striking stalactites near the Dead Sea is the world’s longest, beating the record-holder in Iran. The cave named Malham, stretching over 10 kilometers (6.25 miles), runs through Mount Sodom, Israel’s largest mountain, and spills out to the southwest corner of the adjacent Dead Sea.
Following the successful sale of the chametz of Manhattan Beer Distributors last year, Rabbi Kalman Weinfeld made arrangements again for this year. The sale was a resounding success, with Poskim and Rabbonim backing the sale as being according to all Halachic opinions.
Despite the rain pouring over Brooklyn all day Thursday, Chabad Central Brooklyn still managed to complete its annual deliveries of Mishloach Monos to many Jewish families who probably would otherwise not have celebrated Purim.
In light of a number of recent incidents where motorists were pulled over and detained after it was discovered their license was suspended, Crown Heights Shomrim has issued a notification for drivers to check the status of their licenses.
The NYPD’s 71st Precinct will be hosting a Build the Block meeting for community members of the area designated as area “Boy” Thursday evening in Crown Heights. The area is from Empire Blvd to Eastern Parkway, and from Nostrand Ave to Utica Ave.
In the heart of Essex, Purim at Chabad Buckhurst Hill exceeded everyone’s wildest expectations this year, when 140 people showed up to celebrate.
The resident of Sea Gate in Brooklyn, put the mezuzahs up with the help of Rabbi Heshy Ceitlin, who moved to the area about four years ago as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary with his wife, Rochel Chana Ceitlin, to join her parents, Rabbi Chaim and Rivkah Brikman, co-directors of Chabad by the Ocean.
JEMCentral.org Thanks to Zalman Goldstein, JEM has received a new collection of thousands of photos taken by his father Yossi Goldstein. The collection includes many unique pictures of the Rebbe, and scenes of Crown Heights and Israel in the early […]
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