At a recent Shiur, Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson quoted a Sicha of the Rebbe, in which he says that women observing the laws of Tznius protect the Jewish people in the land of Israel from harm. Some of those present asked Rabbi Seligson for the source of this Sicha, which he provided, and sent it to us as well to share with the broader Chabad community.
A magnificent new building which will house the offices of Russia’s Chief Rabbinate, headed by Rabbi Berel Lazar, was dedicated in Moscow.
A New York City police officer repeatedly tries to arrest a Chasidic motorist in Brooklyn, but the man refuses to exit the vehicle. The officer then sprays the man with mace and handcuffs him.
What’s the next big idea coming out of Crown Heights? Last month, on June 18th, members of the Crown Heights Jewish community had the chance to pitch their start-up ventures to a panel of experienced entrepreneurs in CHYE’s second annual “shark-tank” style event.
Rabbi Dov Sternbach is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, R’ Avrohom, OBM, at 1563 Carroll St. [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.] until Sunday morning. Shachris – 7:00 (Sunday – 8:00); Mincha – 8:10 (Friday – 5:00); Maariv – […]
Areivim is a non-profit “life insurance” organization that has been steadily growing in popularity within the Orthodox-Jewish community these past few years. Though it is the source of much controversy, I believe that much of its opposition stems from a lack of understanding about how it works and why, which I will endeavor to explain in this op-ed.
A shocking video has been causing a stir on social media, showing a worker in a Brooklyn kosher food warehouse who was hired to switch the expiration dates on packages of soon-to-expire goods and repackage them for sale.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Parksville were split into three teams for ‘Bog War,’ the first month of camp’s version of color war.
In the latest of anti-Jewish activity in France, protestors attempted to storm two synagogues in Paris on Sunday. The country’s growing Muslim population—now estimated by some at about 6.5 million, representing roughly 10% of its population—is raising the worrisome specter that France is slowly becoming a Muslim stronghold, threatening the French way of life. It has already become conspicuously inhospitable to France’s long-time Jewish population, causing many Jews with deep roots in France to emigrate after feeling increasingly vulnerable.
In a Sicha delivered during the first Lebanon War in 1982, the Rebbe said that the best possible protection for an IDF soldier is to have a letter written in a Sefer Torah on his behalf. (Subtitles in Hebrew.)
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