At the federal courthouse in Brooklyn, an indictment was unsealed charging Dawood Kassim and Dia Alqalisi with trafficking and stealing millions of dollars in benefits from SNAP. They carried out the fraud from a bodega in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn which Kassim owned.
Amid rising antisemitism in Great Britain and a “deep concern” for its Jewish student community, the University of Manchester hosted a historic printing of the Tanya, the seminal work of Chabad-Lubavitch Chassidic philosophy, at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library on Feb. 14.
In a Sicha that is as relevant today as ever, the Rebbe talks about the housing situation in Crown Heights during the Yud Shvat Farbrengen of 5745 (1985).
Crown Heights Hatzalah volunteer, Dovi Andrusier, was seen administering first aid to a Nigerian orphan during a visit to Nigeria for a humanitarian program for his nephew’s Bar Mitzvah.
In an unique effort to unite bochurim worldwide, the Mivtza “Beat Swords into Plowshares” has achieved tremendous success. Winners have been announced and Bochurim will be receiving their Seforim gift voucher in the upcoming days.
The benefit dinner takes place every year close to Shushan Purim Katan, the yohrtzeit of the young shlucha Chaya Mushka o.b.m, who despite her young age merited to influence girls and even women to increase their mitzva observance. This year marks 27 years since this dear pure soul has departed from us.
Former head of IDF’s 8200 intelligence unit, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Hanan Gefen and former Mossad agent Sima Shine discuss how the intelligence failure of October 7th happened.
At a wedding hall in Jerusalem earlier this month, 50 girls—many of them dressed in white tulle—celebrated the milestone of becoming a bat mitzvah. Their shared joy, however, was underscored by shared feelings of grief as each one of them had a tragic life event that brought them together: the loss of a parent at a young age.
