Michal and Levie, a young couple living in Safed, Israel, were on the brink of despair. With absolutely no money to support themselves and their young children, the strain was taking an emotional toll that they feared would tear their family apart.
Students members of Chabad at the University of Missouri campus launched an initiative this week to rein in tensions at the campus, after a series of racially charged incidents led to a student backlash and the resignation of the school’s chancellor and president, The Algemeiner has learned.
It was a surprise birthday party unlike any other at Bais Chaya Mushka in Los Angeles. All of the students lined up early in the yard, donned festive party hats, and waited excitedly for their beloved Director, Rabbi Danny Yiftach, to arrive.
Family and friends had to physically support an inconsolable young bride-to-be at the funeral of her father and brother,which was attended by hundreds of people in Jerusalem on Saturday night. They were slain by terrorists while traveling Friday to attend a pre-wedding celebration with her future husband.
BR Teen Club, an after-school program for Bais Rivkah’s 6-8 graders that provides nourishing food, homework support, and stimulating recreational clubs and workshops, has begun its fourth year with much enthusiasm.
A pair of masked burglars broke into a shared office space in Crown Heights and stole over $20,000 worth of electronics.
In the wake of the deadly ISIS terrorist attacks in Paris, The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews’ President Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein today said his organization is expanding emergency security aid to French-Jewish communal institutions. The Fellowship at the same time said it will help any French Jew who wishes to immigrate to Israel.
This morning was the first school-day following the horrific terrorist attacks in Paris Friday night that shocked France and the world. In the central city of Grenoble, Shliach Rabbi Yehia Lahiany reported that despite the omnipresent fear lingering over the country, not a single child was absent today at the Ohr Menachem Jewish Day School.
Chabad singer and rising star in the Israeli music scene Nemuel Harouche has released a new single – Shehasholom Shelo – an old Lubavitcher niggun from Nevel, which he sings with an upbeat tempo and classic Israeli musical instruments.
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