The Chabad Shluchim to the countries of East Asia are currently gathered for a regional Kinus in Bangkok, Thailand. This morning, they posed for a group portrait, along with Merkos Vice-Chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.
NOW LIVE: HaMesivta Principal Rabbi Moshe Lieblich will present the solution to our community’s most urgent crisis at an event with Rabbi YY Jacobson.
Like all parents, the Landbergs were very excited when their first son was born. Their joy was short lived when though, when their child was blinded by a nurse’s malpractice. Frightened by the prospects of their child being blinded for life, on the advice of their Doctor they petitioned the Rebbe for a blessing. Just one week later, they received an excited call from the Doctor.
Jewish veterans throughout Russia celebrated Victory Day yesterday, May 9th, marking the USSR’s victory over Nazi Germany in World War II.
A wildfire has engulfed the Canadian town of Fort McMurrey, Alberta, and caused the mass evacuation of over 90,000 people. Chabad in Calgary, under the leadership of Rabbi Menachem Matusof, has been hard at work arranging food and accommodation for those displaced by the inferno.
Yitta Miriam, 26, is one of the ten siblings. She is one of Rav Vozner’s granddaughters and has much perseverance and Emunah. Like any birth of a child, her arrival brought joy and light into the world. However these were not regular circumstances.
Once a year, Warren Buffett—known as the “Oracle of Omaha” for his investment choices and business acumen—holds an enormous event for company shareholders in his Nebraska hometown. It draws men and women from all over the world, though this year, there was an added nuance for Jewish participants as they maneuvered to get to the middle of the United States.
Today, Bais Iyar, marks the 182nd birthday of the Rebbe Maharash, who was born in the town of Lubavitch in 1834, the youngest son of the Temach Tzedek. In honor of this day, we present to our readers the first chapter of the long awaited biography of the Rebbe Maharash by the noted Chabad author, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon.
In his latest monthly segment of Rosh Chodesh with Reb Lipa, singing star Lipa Schmeltzer paid a visit to Crown Heights, “a place where you can hear wisdom and catchy melodies, and check out the spot where the tastiest gefilte fish is produced.”
A peaceful morning stroll by a group of elderly Jewish women on a promenade overlooking sweeping vistas of Jerusalem quickly devolved into a bloody nightmare, when two young masked Palestinian terrorists stalked and stabbed two of the octogenarians in their backs.
A secular Israeli bus driver assaulted an Orthodox-Jewish passenger and shouted “we must kill all the Dossim!” – a pejorative term used to refer to Haredim in Israel – after falsely accusing him of not having paid the bus fare. It was the third such attack in as many days.
