When college sophomore Sam Salz runs out onto the football field, he does so wearing a kippah and with the No. 39 emblazoned on the back of his jersey. He chose 39 as a reminder of the lamed tet melachot, the 39 categories of work that are forbidden on Shabbat.
Rabbi Dovid and Mushky Junik packed up their Brooklyn apartment and moved back across the country to establish a new life as Shluchim at the USC College Campus.
In his letter, the Rebbe gives us some insights and encouragement for our daily life. He draws from the life of our father Yaakov which is reflected in ours – where a minority is faced with challenges, yet emerges whole and perfect.
Insider News, formerly Business Insider, produced a video filmed at the Kinus getting Shluchim’s reactions to the outlandish antisemitic comments from Kanye West, a rapper who now goes by Ye.
The 4th CYP Encounter in Crown Heights is set to attract hundreds of young professionals for a Shabbaton of inspiration and connection featuring Alex Clare, Joyce Azria and Rabbi Simon and Shaindy Jacobson.
On Tuesday evening tragedy struck on the Virgin Islands when the four-month-old daughter of Rabbi Asher and Henya Federman, the Shluchim on the island, fell into the water of the marina. The couple both jumped into the water to try to save their baby, and in the process Henya got stuck underwater for an extended period of time. Baby Shternie’s levaya took place in Old Montefiore Cemetery in New York late Thursday afternoon.
In recent days, a high level delegation from Misrad HaPnim (Interior Ministry) visited Chaim V’Chessed. The delegation was led by Mr. Erez Melamed, the recently installed manager of the Shlomzion Hamalka branch of Misrad HaPnim. Several new rules and changes were announced at the meeting.
Yagdil Torah has compiled a publication with Mishnayos and selected pieces of the Mitteler Rebbe’s Torah. The publication will be available in local shuls, at our office and on our website.
Maimonides Medical Center in the Boro Park section of Brooklyn remains one of the most used hospitals for the Crown Heights Jewish community, and after three years, they have finally relaxed most of their COVID restrictions.
In honor of the the 9th and 10th of Kislev, the Ohel Bus Service will be providing extra subsidized transportation round trip from Crown Heights to the Ohel beginning on Motzei Shabbos, Dec. 3rd through Sunday, Dec. 4th.
Watch this weeks Shazak Parsha Production, with its spellbinding audiovisual storytelling of the parsha and Shazak style animations.
Agency tasked with helping “Palestinian refugees”, condemns tunnel found underneath one of its schools, but makes no mention of Hamas.
A hakhel rally by the Rebbe’s Ohel has been organized in an effort to storm the heavens for a Refuah Shleima immediately for Shlucha Henya bas Brocha Devorah Leah.
Rabbi Gedalya Axelrot serves as rabbi to the Chabad community in Haifa, Israel, where he also used to serve on the rabbinical court. He was interviewed in May of 2015.
