A group of 42 Jewish teenagers and 11 dedicated staff members descended on Costa Rica this summer for a high-energy vacation spent studying Torah, meeting local Jews, and enjoying the surrounding countryside before heading back to Chabad-Lubavitch run yeshivas around the world.
Showing that modernity might, just might, find its place even in a world predisposed to the most traditional of customs, in walks FaceGlat: an ultra-Orthodox Jewish answer, at least for some, to Facebook.
Dozens of mothers and daughters of the Melbourne Yeshiva community gathered Thursday evening to learn in memory of Leiby Kletzky OBM.
Some people wept. Some embraced. Others silently stared into the dark pools where the twin towers once stood as the 9/11 memorial at ground zero opened its gates to the public.
A flight that originated out of John F. Kennedy Airport was diverted this morning amid security concerns.
Rabbi Yossi Groner, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Carolinas, delivered an invocation at a recent Carolina Panthers football game.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Brooklyn Avenue was shut down for an hour Monday evening after police received an alert for a suspicious package, which turned out to be a Department of Transportation traffic measuring device, and it took a Shomrim volunteers to figure it out.
Chabad celebrates New Torah Dedication in Dollard Des Ormeaux, Quebec at the Gutnick Mazal Jewish Center Honoring Mr. Ben Gordon with indoor and outdoor dancing, Hakofois and a Seudas Mitzvah.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe”: An ex-Reform rabbi informs the Rebbe that he is returning to Orthodox Judaism; How did the Rebbe respond and what happened a year later? Sunday dollars in 24 Adar 5751. March 10, 1991.
This video was taken in Montreal in 1962 and the clip is the raw clip. This and other clips will featured as part of a film on the life and legacy of Rabbi Aryeh Leib Kramer, the Frierdiker Rebbes Shliach to Montreal.
Divine Providence and a hurricane led two Bochurim Dovid Kotlarsky and Yehoshua Greenspan who aer out on Merkos Shlichus to a chance meeting with Mike Eman, the Prime Minister of Aruba.
Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks officially opened Cambridge’s first Mikvah. After almost 30 years of planning and discussions, construction began after Pesach and was completed shortly before the inaugural ceremony.
IYH this Wednesday, the 15th of Elul – September 14th – there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
Assistant Rabbi Aaron Notik asked University of Florida students walking through Turlington Plaza to stop at a booth. “I can’t right this second,” one student said. “I have to go to class.”
This week, Hebrew schools from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Pasadena, Calif., geared up for the start of a new academic year, implementing curricula designed to instill in students both a solid foundation of Judaic knowledge and a strong sense of Jewish identity.
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