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Wisdom with understanding,” the motto of Sarah Lawrence College, fits perfectly with the ideals of Chabad, which is opening a center at the Bronxville campus in time for the 2012 fall semester.
Israeli singing sensation Meidad Tasa performs the Chabad Nigun An’im Zmiros on Radio Kol Berama, Commemorating the 18th anniversary of the passing of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
On Tuesday, June 26, Chabad at La Costa took the next major step towards dedicating its new complex as the old Chabad Center was demolished. Many of the community participants turned out to witness this event, which they almost uniformly described as ‘bittersweet.’ Bitter in the sense that there have been so many events in the old building over the past twenty years, yet sweet in that it marks a new beginning in the Chabad House’s growth and development.
Author Chaim Miller, creator of the Gutnick Edition Chumash and other scholarly works, discusses some of the key teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe. Recorded in Melbourne, Australia at a gathering in honor of the 18th yahrtzeit of the Rebbe, of righteous memory.
A Chabad shaliach and his family were among the 32,000 people who fled Colorado Springs in the face of the raging Waldo Canyon wildfire that began three days ago and continues to burn out of control.
The tri-state area is set for another heat wave, less than a week after stifling humidity and temperatures in the mid-90s baked the region in its first of the year.
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The Los Angeles City Council’s Planning and Land Use Management (PLUM) committee sided with supporters of an expansion project for the Chabad of North Hollywood on June 26, moving the partially completed project one step closer to reapproval, after an appeals court overturned a previous approval by the committee in May.
‘Acheinu’ by Avraham Ohayon is sung in memory of the four victims of the terror attack on the Chabad school in Toulouse, France in March. All proceeds from the sale of the song will be donated to the victims’ families.
In this video, courtesy of the Oholei Torah Archive Department, Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, OBM, who passed away this morning, delivered a Siyum on Tanya at the Oholei Torah Mesivta on Troy Avenue on 28 Sivan, 5770.
A plan to cope with an annual Orthodox Jewish pilgrimage to a Queens neighborhood made for one of the smoothest years ever, organizers and residents said.
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This Wednesday, June 27, friends and family will gather to commemorate one year since the passing of Rabbi Zalman Kazen, OBM. The event will take place at Rabbi Shain’s Shul, 390 Kingston Ave. [between Crown and Montgomery St.] at 8:00pm, beginning with Mincha, followed by the ceremony, Mishnayos and Maariv.
The walls of the concert hall nestled on a small side street in Brooklyn reverberate with the solid beats produced by a five-piece maple wood drum set. Lead singer and songwriter Perl Wolfe‘s warm voice rises and falls as her fingers dance gracefully across her Yamaha keyboard. The expressions on the faces of the all-female audience exude their intense enjoyment of the performance.
Finding luggage, choosing rooms, unpacking and getting assigned to bunks is all just part of the fun of arriving at camp. Here is a photo gallery of Bochurim arriving at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Wineberg, devout chossid of the Frierdiker Rebbe and the Rabbe, at the age of 94. Reb Yossel, as he was affectionately known, was the author of Lessons in Tanya, a multivolume commentary on the fundamental work on Chabad philosophy written by the Alter Rebbe, which was personally edited by the Rebbe.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Zeev Volf Nisnevitch at the age of 99. Reb Zeev Volf, a longtime Crown Heights resident, merited to see three Rabbeim in his lifetime, and fought in the underground to bring Jewish education to children in communist Russia.
Seven years ago, Lubavitch Chabad of the Loop, Gold Coast and Lincoln Park took out a $4.9 million loan to build what was supposed to be a state-of-the-art synagogue and community center at Chestnut and Clark streets.
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Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries trounced firebrand City Councilman Charles Barron, a former Black Panther with a history of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric, Tuesday night in the Democratic primary to represent Brooklyn’s 8th Congressional District.
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