Starting at 8:00pm, Misaskim is hosting a four-hour live culmination of its 60-hour effort to raise $500,000, featuring Rabbi Yoel Gold, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, Yisroel Lamm, Rabbi Eli Mansour, Mordechai Ben David, and the Honorable Simcha Felder.
More than 200 people attended the ribbon-cutting and dedication of the new home of Chabad of Bethlehem, NY, a suburb of Albany. The Chabad has restored and moved into the historic Adams House, built in 1838 by town founder Nathanial Adams.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the week of Selichos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
In an explosive op-ed published in the Times of Israel, a modern-Orthodox father of four explains how he was able to cut down his Jewish expenses to “just” $40,000 a year.
The High Holidays are an inspirational time of year. It’s a time where we try to be a little better, and maybe think about things we can do to step up our game in various areas of life. Rabbi Pinchas Taylor explains an effective way to make a practical resolution that will actually stick.
An “animal-rights” group that lost a Federal lawsuit against Chabad of Irivine, California, over the pre-Yom Kippur ritual of Kapporos in a landmark ruling earlier this year, is at it once again — this time suing the Irvine Police Department for not enforcing animal cruelty laws by allowing the practice to continue.
In an op-ed published in The Times of Israel, Shelley Civkin revealed what she believes is the best kept secret in the Jewish world.
Unidentified individuals hurled a firebomb at the Moscow offices of the largest Jewish organization in Russia, the Federation of Jewish Communities (FJC), which is adjacent to the Marina Roscha Synagogue, headed by Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Mrs. Alice Zlotnick is a professional artist presently living in Jerusalem,Israel. She was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in her home in December of 2006.
