Mayor Joins Jewish Community to Welcome New Torah
Thousands of years of Jewish history has come home to Oceanside, California with Sunday’s dedication of the new community Torah scroll for the city’s Chabad Jewish Center.
Thousands of years of Jewish history has come home to Oceanside, California with Sunday’s dedication of the new community Torah scroll for the city’s Chabad Jewish Center.
Forget the Manischewitz: the Livermore Valley plans to pass the Cabernet at the table. The Chabad of the Tri-Valley and Mitchell Katz Winery are jointly jumping into the kosher winemaking business, just in time for the Jewish new year.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Late last Friday night, the NYPD removed over a dozen exotic animals from an apartment in Crown Heights. All told, police seized 13 animals, including two alligators, two bearded dragons, five pythons, a boa constrictor, a gecko, a scorpion, and a tarantula.
A reader sent us this photo of a strange advertisement in Jerusalem. What appears at first sight to be a typical Meshichist banner in the signature yellow red and blue, turns out to be something even more confusing: The sign declares that Moshiach is in Tel-Aviv. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?
On Wednesday, Chai Elul, an unprecedented event took place in Rechovot, Israel: Ten Lubavitcher yungelight received certification to be Dayonim (“Yodin Yodin”).
Lubavitcher rapper Ben Schwed, AKA BenYomen, a student at the Mayanot Institute in Israel, gives thanks to the Lord in this new music video.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) Bonei Olam of Crown Heights is hosting its 2nd annual auction to raise much needed funds for those experiencing the nisayon of infertility. Bonei Olam has helped over 3,000 Jewish couples achieve the dream of becoming a family by providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial assistance for medical costs and insurance.
Chabad of the West Coast’s 32nd annual L’Chaim “To Life!” Telethon raised a total of 4,039,902 dollars during an intensely emotional 3 hour extravaganza. The total was slightly below last year’s tally of $4.2 million.
This year for Rosh Hashanah the Besht Center will be holding its tefilos at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall, located at 570 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]. Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman will inspire the congregation with his melodies and speeches.
In the latest episode of her show ‘Jew in the City’, Allison Josephs explores the deeper meaning and discovers inspirational reflections on the Jewish practice of immersion in the Mikvah.
The first issue of Hachayol magazine is hot off the presses just in time for Rosh Hashana 5773. 7,000 copies have been shipped to over 50 Tzivos Hashem bases and more than 700 shluchim’s kids across the globe thanks to the MyShliach organazation.
A non-Jewish family in India named their daughter – born on the third anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks – in memory of Rivka Holtzberg, the Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who was murdered alongside her husband Rabbi Gavriel Holzberg and their four guests at the Nariman House facility they operated as a Jewish center.