After many years of planning and fundraising, the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah Melbourne) conducted a ground-breaking ceremony to launch Stage 1 of its most ambitious project yet – a multi-stage extension and redevelopment of its Alexandra Street campus.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Chanukah for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Darchai Menachem’s PTA invites all Darchai families and friends to join together for Darchai’s first outdoor Menorah Lighting on Sunday, December 22nd, the first night of Chanukah.
In this weeks letter, the Rebbe shares a timely message about Chanukah, with a timeless application for all places and situations in our personal lives and in our Jewish history.
A new Rov in town that launched an organization geared toward the young couples of Crown Heights faced backlash from the re-unified Crown Heights Beis Din, which published a letter instructing the community to refrain from supporting or encouraging him in any way.
A new Chabad center is coming to south Phoenix, a fast-growing region of the metropolitan area that previously had no synagogues. Rabbi Mendy Rimler and his wife, Sarah, will co-direct the Chabad Jewish Center of South Phoenix.
More than a thousand Jews took part in the big celebration held in central Moscow celebrating Yud Tes Kislev, the day of redemption Alter Rebbe. The event is organized each year by the caretaker Central Synagogue “Marina Roscha ” in central Moscow.
We present a photo gallery of the central Farbrengen in Paris, France celebrating Yud Tes Kislev.
On a thoroughfare once named for Adolf Hitler, where Nazi troops goose-stepped and saluted in all-too-familiar infamous scenes from before and during World War II, the Jews of Freiburg, Germany, marched with joyful abandon against a backdrop of blaring Chassidic music to inaugurate a new Torah scroll and Chabad center earlier this week.
The Beverly Hills Police Department has made an arrest in connection with the vandalism that took place at the Nessah Synagogue on Saturday, December 14th.
Amid a rash of hate crimes in New York and across the country, Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced more than $10 million has been awarded to make security enhancements at non-public schools and cultural centers, including religious-based institutions, to protect against the threat of hate crimes.
Watch and learn as Rabbi Shalom DovBer Levine, the Director and Curator at the Central Chabad-Lubavitch Research Library, gives a Shiur on Hilchas Chanukah.
Mrs. Joan Zlotnick Click here for a PDF version of this edition of Here’s My Story, or visit the My Encounter Blog. When my late husband, Shmuel Yaakov – better known as Jack – was a boy, he got to know Rabbi […]
The MTA board voted 9-3 Wednesday to add hundreds of police officers to the subway system. The MTA says the 500 additional uniformed officers are necessary to combat a rise in crime on the subways.
Israeli politician and staunch supporter of Israel Mrs. Geulah Cohen OBM, passed away Wednesday at the age of 94. Mrs. Cohen had several hours-long one-on-one conversations with the Rebbe, and wrote several landmark articles articulating the Rebbe’s positions on Israeli security.
The L’Chaim of Chaim Levi Avtzon of Crown Heights, and Adina Goldman of Los Angeles, CA, took place Wednesday evening at Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights.
Baila Friedman, High School Senior in Bais Rivkah, writes what makes Bais Rivkah unique, and what she will leave with as she prepares to graduate.
