On Thursday evening, 25 Iyear, 34 students of Oholei Torah, Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St., Cheder Lubavitch of Morristown and Cheder Chabad of Monsey competed against each other in the final round of the Chidon Shoneh Halachos.
In a sign that past tensions between Chabad and Belz in Eretz Yisroel continue to thaw, Rabbi Aharon Mordechai Rokeach, the son of the Belzer Rebbe Shlita, paid a visit to the home of Rabbi Moshe Havlin, Rov of the Lubavitch community in Kiryat Gat and head of the local Yeshiva.
While on a short visit to Moscow, Russia’s capital, the Rebbe of Chernobyl arrived on Friday to visit the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berl Lazar.
A unique EnerJew seminar focused on planning activities and special programs during the summer in the Federation of Jewish Communities’ (FJC) network of summer camps across the former Soviet Union (FSU), took place in a Moscow suburb last week. 30 EnerJew activists from 15 FSU cities came together to create a pilot project -” SummerJew” that would integrate the youth movement in sleep-away and day summer camps.
Until last Sunday afternoon, Binyamin and Tzvi Hirsh were still Victor and Gregory. Inspired by a week-long Hakhel trip to Crown Heights and the Ohel, they then celebrated their Bris near the Ohel.
Chabad’s 124 Or Avner educational institutions, schools and kindergartens throughout the Former Soviet Union (FSU) celebrated this week the end of the school year.
In a stunning video that includes sweeping footage of the Old City of Jerusalem and the surrounding areas, Israeli superstar Gad Elbaz is the voice of the Jewish people, expressing a longing for the day when Jerusalem will no longer be divided but will be a single united city.
Hundreds of Jewish children marched through the streets of Paris, France, on Lag Ba’omer, in a defiant display of Jewish pride that’s becoming increasingly rare, as the Jewish community weather’s a barrage of near-daily anti-Semitic incidents.
The Cheder Chabad of Baltimore elementary boys division had a chance to meet their neighbors during a Lag Ba’omer tour of the Baltimore City Public Safety Training Academy.
On Thursday, hundreds of boys and girls in Kensington, Brooklyn, came together in unity for an incredible Lag Ba’omer program.
Thousands of children participated in a massive Lag Baomer Parade on 18th Avenue in Boro Park. Together, children marched down the closed off thoroughfare and participated in an amazing program which featured the recital of the twelve Pesukim, Divrei Torah alongside an acrobatic performance.
Lag Baomer was celebrated with two highly-energized programs at the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn
Hundreds of men, women and children joined the Grand Hakhel Lag Ba’omer Parade in Kharkov, Ukraine, which took place in the local Ecopark Feldman Zoo.
Imagine a roomful of more than two hundred Jewish teens, gathered from more than twenty cities and six countries across Europe to spend a meaningful, uplifting Shabbos together. Imagine all the languages they are speaking. The sounds. The singing. Old friends meeting again. New friendships just beginning.
Some 500 friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo came together on Thursday, May 26, 2016, to celebrate the organization’s annual Gala Banquet. The dinner portion of the evening – which was called for a separate time from the program itself – featured world class cuisine served via buffet tables and carving stations spread throughout the expansive and artistically-decorated foyer of the five-star Four Seasons Westlake Hotel.
The Keren Avraham Eliezer Camp Fund – in memory of Hatomim Avremi Goldman HYD – hosted a Chinese Auction in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights on Sunday, with hundreds in attendance. At the event the lucky winners of some 80 fabulous prizes were drawn.
Thousands of students from schools across South Florida; from Miami to Palm Beach, came together in unity for an amazing program hosted in the Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, FL, organized by Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
