The New York Department of Taxation and Finance will soon begin sending direct financial assistance to 1.75 million New Yorkers who received the Empire State Child Credit and/or the Earned Income Credit on their 2021 state tax returns. New Yorkers can expect to receive their checks by the end of October.
Traditionally, every seven years, when Jews the world over mark the year of Hakhel, big, colorful Jewish communal celebrations are held in Kharkov, Ukraine. There are concerts, holiday events, special study sessions and noted guest speakers who draw large crowds to the city’s grand Choral Synagogue. But with the war still raging all around them, large-scale events are off the table this year.
Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a bill on Thursday putting a cap on the number of students allowed in New York City classes.
The following account was conveyed to Chabad.org by Rabbi Arye Sufrin, executive director of the Chabad Lubavitch Centre in Essex, England, a few minutes after learning of Queen Elizabeth’s passing.
Another letter of the Rebbe on the theme of teshuvah, during this month of Elul, gives some practical advice in dealing with states of mind and problems and on the matter of sins and teshuvah.
Mark the end of Shemitah and the beginning of Hakhel by expanding your personal library of the Rebbe’s Torah. Dozens of individual volumes of Toras Menachem are available for a mere third of the price. With the close of this […]
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II passed away on Thursday at the age of 96.
“What can I do to help?” If this is a question that you’ve been asking yourself, this zoom was created with you in mind.
Recently Kollel Anash of Crown Heights had the honor of hosting a shiur by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Raskin of London, England on the halachos associated with traveling and taking trips. Rabbi Raskin serves as Rov and Dayan of Lubavitch in London. He is also the author of numerous halachah seforim.
The Maimonides School in Albany, NY opened this year with its highest student enrollment in many years thanks to a growing local community with new young families.
For the first time since World War II, the Hungarian city of Debrecen held an ordination ceremony for an Orthodox rabbi. Rabbi Shmuel Faigen was installed as head of the local Jewish community and will also serve as rabbi of the EMIH-Hungarian Jewish Association and Chabad-Lubavich movement.
Rabbi Aharon Serebryanski served as a leading Chabad emissary and educator for seventy years, most of them in Australia. He was interviewed in July of 2001 and July of 2016.
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