Whatever preconceived notions one might have about the demeanor or perspectives of an Orthodox rabbi, be prepared to have them completely shattered upon meeting Rabbi Mendy Herson, spiritual leader of Chabad Jewish Center in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards.
Authorities were called after a man, dressed as Elmo, started pestering tourists and spewing anti-Semitic vitriol in Central Park yesterday, leading him to be taken in for mental evaluation.
Troubled missing millionaire Guma Aguiar‘s wife told him she wanted a divorce just hours before he vanished from his fishing boat, the lawyer for Aguiar’s mother told ABCNews.com today.
Yaki Hershkop, a Lubavitcher Askan from Beitar Illit, Israel, invited and accompanied the mayor of Beitar Illit, Meir Rubestein, along with his assistant, Yehudah Deutsch, to the Rebbe’s Ohel on Sunday.
Merely a few hours before the news broke that one of the lone surviving perpetrators of the Mumbai massacre, which claimed the lives of his parents, was apprehended, Moishe Holtzberg visited the Viznitzer Rebbe in Bnei Brak with his grandfather Rabbi Shimon Rosenberg.
Monday, 5 Tammuz, is the 37th yahrzeit of Rabbi Benzion Shemtov, OBM. The Jewish Tribune, based in Stamford Hill, London, featured vintage photographs and a short biography of Rabbi Shemtov’s life in a full page spread in its ‘faces from the past’ section.
On Sunday hundreds of Anash joined the extended Schapiro family as they celebrated the completion of a new Sefer Torah in memory of Rabbi Lipa and Mrs. Chana Schapiro, and their beloved son Rabbi Levi Yitzchak, OBM.
Eight years after its initial release, Yaldah Magazine, the successful Orthodox publication written by Jewish girls for Jewish girls continues to grow and in response to reader request, is switching over from a quarterly to a monthly format.
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Indian police have arrested a man who is thought to be the one heard giving instructions by phone to the terrorists who were holed up inside the Mumbai Chabad House in November 2008.
In this 36th installment of the series, Rebbetzin Chana describes her mixed feelings of joy and sorrow when she and Reb Levik celebrated their own version of the Rebbe’s wedding from far away in Yekatrinoslav, unable to attend in Warsaw.
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