In the face of antisemitic hostility on university campuses, Jewish college students across North America are challenging one another to gather publicly at the center of their campuses to put on tefillin.
Behind the Crown Heights Fruit & Produce purveyor, stood a devoted chossid who graciously greeted everyone, Reb Michel Raskin A”H.
Farbrengens, learning, and l’chaims were seen taking place Sunday throughout Oholei Torah, commemorating sixty eight years of Chinuch.
A mask mandate has gone into effect at New York City’s 11 public hospitals amid a spike in COVID-19 and respiratory illness cases, officials said.
The IDF has informed the family of Sahar Baruch, one of the hostages who was kidnapped by the Hamas terrorist organization on October 7, that he was killed during a rescue attempt about a month ago.
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As the war in Israel and on campus rages on, Rabbi Yossy Gordon, CEO of Chabad on Campus International, visited frontline bases and campus Chabad Houses in Eretz Yisrael to show support and provide chizuk.
At 10:54pm Tuesday night, the emergency hotline at Crown Heights Shomrim rang. A Jewish man on Montgomery Street had just been assaulted and robbed, and he needed help now. Just one minute later, one of Shomrim’s new response vehicle was pulling up with multiple more volunteers on the way.
The bike-sharing company said it’s increasing prices “to support our growing operations and continued expansion.” The annual membership increases from $205 to $219.99 a year on Jan. 29, and other Citi Bike prices will increase starting on Thursday.
Rabbi Avremi Zippel and three other rabbis brought the signs to the Delta Center to watch the home-team Utah Jazz face the Dallas Mavericks. The signs were meant to protest Kyrie Irving, now a Mavericks player, who was suspended in 2022 by a former team for tweeting a link to a movie widely considered to be antisemitic.
We are quickly approaching the special day of Yud-Shevat and Chassidim are all preparing themselves for Kabbalas Hanesuis. In addition, it is a time when most parents of Talmidim in the 8th grade are beginning to register their sons in Mesivta for the upcoming year.
Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami, South Florida’s largest Chabad School, has published “Community” an extended magazine highlighting the month of Kislev in their school.
The “Skolkovo” area of Moscow, known as Russia’s Silicon Valley thanks to its many innovative companies in the field of technology and commerce, has welcomed its own Shliach about two years ago. With the development of the community, the need to purchase a Torah scroll of their own was felt.
