In response to the terror attack in Manchester which left 23 dead and over 60 injured, the most devastating attack to hit England in over a decade, a vigil memorial was held in the city’s Albert Square. Students of Yeshivas Lubavitch Manchester participated in the vigil, and encouraged any Jews they met to do a Mitzvah in memory of the victims.
In honor of the approaching holiday of Shavuos, The Creative Corner Kids learned all about how a Sefer Torah is made and written, with a hands-on demonstration of the entire process from professional Sofer Rabbi Levi Ladaev.
Back in 2002, Daniel Kaplan, then 14, had one reason to attend a Torah study course offered by Rabbi Shmuli Nachlas of Toronto’s Jewish Youth Network. The public school student was looking for high school credits that would allow him to graduate a semester early. Torah was the ticket.
Bikur Cholim of Crown Heights held their annual breakfast, this year themed ‘Celebrating our Community,’ in the Oholei Torah ballroom on Sunday, May 21.
Hebrew School students of Chabad Hebrew School of Westchester, located in New Rochelle, NY, enjoyed an exciting surprise as Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino attended the celebration.
Close to a thousand men, women, and children gathered together for Lag B’Omer in Oak Park, Michigan.
This past Sunday, on Lag B’omer, the residents of ‘Europe’s center for diamonds’ – Antwerp, Belgium, were witness to a grand display of yiddishkeit in the open, a real Kiddush Hashem.
Africa was not left out of Sunday’s Lag Ba’omer festivities, as Rabbi Israel Uzan, Shliach to Abuja, the capital of the continent’s largest country, Nigeria, organized a Lag Ba’omer parade as a way for the few Jews living there to demonstrate their pride.
50 years ago, in the anxious days leading up to the outbreak of the Six-Day-War, the Lubavitcher Rebbe launched his first Mivtza (campaign) – that every Jewish male above the age of 13 should put on Tefilin, and he assured that in this merit G-d would show the Jewish people miracles. The rest is history.
The Jewish community of Paris, France, gathered together Wednesday night to mark the Shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Mendel Deutsch, HYD, a former member of their community who was brutally murdered by thugs in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir.
The rainstorm that came down upon Brooklyn on Lag B’omer did not stop the over 1,000 participants who arrived for the Parade in Kensington. They were all in high spirits and enjoyed the magnificent program.
Over two hundred people gathered together on Monday, at an event hosted by Kehillath Jeshurun in Manhattan, to explore the life of the Rebbe.
This week has been dubbed National Prevention Week by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. In an effort to promote awareness that we all need to be alert to the potential dangers of substance abuse, Operation Survival has partnered with Crown Heights stores to relay a timely message for parents and educators: Teach Kids to Refuse to Use!
As the Gala Dinner of Oholei Torah is just over a week away, Chazzan Yitzchok Meir Helfgot visited Oholei Torah together with Mendel Duchman of Los Angeles, CA. They both will play key roles at the event, as Chazzan Helfgot will be giving a concert and Mendel Duchman will be the keynote speaker.
Despite the weather forecast of rain, hundreds of men, women and children joined the Grand Lag Baomer Parade in Kharkov, Ukraine, which was held in the Ecopark Feldman Zoo.
Over 8,000 people from all areas of the Jewish community of Buenos Aires, Argentina, gathered in the Tecnopolis theme park for a Mega Lag Baomer Parade and an amazing day of adventure and inspiration for the entire family.
Sunshine or rain, Sunday or in middle of the week, Montreal always holds a Lag BaOmer Parade with much fanfare. This year was no different.
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