When Cupertino, California representative Rabbi Reuven Goldstein visited New York’s Morgan Museum in 2010, he saw an original Mishneh Torah, written in Maimonides’s own hand. The rabbi, who has always been interested in Jewish history, was inspired to start a collection of old Jewish books. His first piece was the Soncino Talmud from the year 1515, the first Talmud to be printed.
In a video that aims to impart an important lesson, a man walks down a Jerusalem Street with a walking stick to help him navigate, but he isn’t blind in the conventional sense.
With over a thousand students from around the world in attendance, the Chabad on Campus Shabbaton last month in Crown Heights was an amazing weekend full of learning, inspiration, and excitement. Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson was on hand to document the experience.
Monsey resident 29-year-old Refael Koenig was beaten for using his iPhone to record a Spring Valley chasenah he was attending last week, Channel 12 News reported.
A group of Lubavitcher Trump supporters from Crown Heights was present at the presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C. this past Friday. While there, they bumped into fiery conservative radio commentator Alex Jones of Info Wars, who joined them for a brief Chasidic dance.
New York City has agreed to pay up to $75 million to settle a federal class-action lawsuit that accused police officers of writing at least 900,000 summonses for offenses like trespassing, disorderly conduct and urinating in public that were later dismissed because of legal insufficiency.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Sholom Ber Gorelik, OBM, veteran Chosid and prominent member of the community of Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel. He was 75 years old.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’era. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you know when you are truly free?
Officials say the Obama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking.
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