This Sunday, the world will mark 100 years since the sinking of the infamous cruise liner, the Titanic. What do we know of the Jews who were aboard that fateful ship? How did they observe the Jewish dietary laws during the voyage? A few experts dove into the research, both figuratively and literally.
Major wireless service companies have agreed to disable cellphones after they are reported stolen under a strategy intended to deter the theft and resale of wireless devices.
Leah Namdar, Chabad representative to Sweden with her husband, Rabbi Alexander Namdar, raised a family of 11 children in Gothenburg. The couple has nurtured a Jewish community, fostered Jewish identity, education and commitment despite Sweden’s hostility towards Israel and religious life.
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of bochurim departing on Merkos Shlichus. Can you identify who is in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photos in the extended article
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thurday, April 12, and Friday, April 13. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
We’ve all heard stories about the shtetl: a small (Eastern) European village or community where Jews would live, work, and study Torah together.
A flurry of lawsuits over 509 Fifth Ave. may become moot now that sources say Rabbi Joshua Metzger has signed a contract to pay $40 million for the nondescript building partially occupied by his nonprofit Chai Foundation and Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown.
Thousands of Chabadniks from around the Holy Land put aside their jobs and activities to travel to the Town of Chomesh to participate in a mission to show support for the beleagured Jews of Shomron.
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