The streets of Crown Heights were filled during the past several days with thousands of women from all over the world for this year’s Kinus HaShluchos. While shluchos enjoyed seeing old friends, charging up on ruchnius, and enjoying delicious food, each shlucha was here for one reason only: to live with the mission of the Rebbe.
In this 20th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes how her husband Reb Levik, although already weak and frail from illness, would “come back to life” when he received fellow Jewish visitors.
After a busy weekend of meeting classmates and participating in the uplifting Kinus, the 6th grade classes of the Nigri International Shluchim Online School were treated to a one-of-a kind event exclusively for their class; a Grand Bas Mitzvah Brunch.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Mayor Bloomberg bragged recently that he balanced the city’s budget without raising taxes. What he forgot to mention was, the city doesn’t need tax revenue when it can squeeze out all it needs from its hard working citizens at will.
Honda is recalling almost 46,000 Odyssey minivans from the 2008-9 model years because the struts that support power liftgates on higher-priced models may fail, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The battle over whether Israeli products belong on the shelves of the Park Slope Food Coop is finally coming to a vote — sort of.
Lubavitch of Edgware has completed the purchase of 228 Hale Lane, a 2,000 sq ft property. The house is right next door to the current Lubavitch Centre.
A Bartlett, Tennessee man found thousands of dollars inside an item he bought on eBay.
Chevra Ahavas Yisroel has just signed a contract on a two story building to permanently house their congregation. They will complete the purchase as soon as they raise the necessary funds.
Do you want to teach your child to become a Mentch? Why can a few positive words be so uplifting to a child a word? When and how should we bestow praise? A new series presented by Rabbi Nochem Kaplan can show you how.
In unprecedented unity, over 200 student volunteers representing many of the Jewish day Schools in Johannesburg, gathered at two separate events last week to initiate the third year of programming of Friendship Circle.
A couple of interesting photos were recently discovered in the archives of the Chabad House in Ashdod, Israel. In the first (above), Rabbi Nachman Holtzberg and his sons help a Jew do the Mitzvah of Lulav. Gabi HY”D is third from the right.
The Mormon Church has condemned the recent posthumous baptism of Anne Frank, the Jewish girl whose diary of hiding from the Nazis has provided generations with a first-hand account of life during the Holocaust.
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