Israeli Basketball star Omri Casspi paid a visit to the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s gravesite in Queens today, accompanied by Shluchim Rabbi Moshe Gancz of Cleveland, Ohio, and Rabbi Dovid Labkowski of Oakland, California.
Heavily armed agents from the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms, along with other law enforcement agencies raided a house on Brooklyn Avenue in Crown Heights as part of an ongoing firearms trafficking investigation.
The Chabad House at Syracuse University in upstate New York, led by Rabbi Yaakov Rapoport, has welcomed on board Rabbi Zalman and Sarah Ives as its new associate rabbi and program directors. The couple’s sole focus will be on supporting Jewish undergraduate students with their spiritual needs.
Almost 100 young Jewish adults, aged 18 to 30, came together in Moscow to learn informal education and leadership skills from the leading regional professionals.
Eight weeks after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Rabbi Mendel Zarchi, Chabad’s emissary in San Juan, still faces a daily challenge: balancing his organization’s needs with those of the community it supports.
Ikea relaunched a recall of 29 million chests and dressers Tuesday after the death of an eighth child.
Do you have questions about Judaism that you were never able to ask? This lecture by Rabbi Simon Jacobson, the latest edition of Torah Cafe’s “Retreat Moments” series, will tackle all those things you’ve always wanted to know about but were afraid to ask.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha — Vayeitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What are healthy boundaries?
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