Local Lubavitch musician, Chony Milecki, has just been announced as a finalist in the national Yamaha Freestyle keyboard competition.
Beginning now, 6:00pm, a truck is unloading many skids with fresh Onions and Potatos which is being distributed for free for all those who want. The produce is being distributed on East New York Avenue between Kingston and Brooklyn. There is no need to be on any lists, just come and take.
By the hundreds of thousands, Swedes tuned into SVT2, Sweden’s biggest TV network last Wednesday to watch a new TV series, From Sweden to Heaven. Its second installment turned the cameras to the Chabad family in Gothenburg, and gave viewers a close-up of life in the religiously observant, lively Chasidic home of Rabbi Alexander and Leah Namdar.
It was a beautiful sunny day as I recall. An early spring breeze licked eagerly at passersby like a hungry cat lapping up a bowl of milk. I flipped up the pressed collar of my finest holiday shirt to ward off the affectionate but persistent gust of nature.
A classic Albany deal is in the works that could protect 1 million New York City renters from big rent increases while also capping the growth in property taxes in the suburbs and upstate.
The 11 Nissan farbrengen of 1982 marked the occasion of the Rebbe’s 80th birthday. At that farbrengen, the Rebbe addressed the question of retirement that some people had posed to him by revealing the secret to actually growing stronger with age.
STAMFORD — After Rabbi Chezy Deren mixed some matzo dough, Daniel Radin, 16, and his friends rolled it and used the edges of the pins to make signature perforations in the unleavened bread.
We are pleased to present our Forty Fifth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Rabbi Eli Goodman plays the role of Moshe demanding that Paroh let his people go in this hilarious 21st century take on the ancient story. Oh, and he invites his community to come join a Pesach Seder at his Chabad House!
On the Passover seder plate, haroset symbolizes the mortar used by slaves in Egypt.
This past Friday close to 1500 students came together at Binghamton University for one of the largest Friday night meals ever held around the world.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
In the large and growing Orthodox Jewish communities around New York and elsewhere, rabbinic leaders are sounding an alarm about an unexpected problem: a wave of anorexia and other eating disorders among teenage girls.
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed to his office on Monday, a group of 13 year old boys celebrating their Bar Mitvah, and spoke of his regard for the work of Chabad Shluchim and the legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Most interviews with up-and-coming rappers don’t take place in Brooklyn religious learning centers. But DeScribe isn’t your typical rapper.
The city’s top cop, Ray Kelly, acknowledged that there is an investigation into alleged ticket fixing within the NYPD, but declined to comment specifically about reports that dozens of crooked cops could end up arrested in the scandal.
Drivers across the the Tri-State Area are wincing at prices at the gas pump.
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