After a long pandemic-induced delay, Rabbi Simon Jacobson announced the winners of this year’s 6th annual MyLife: Chassidus Applied Essay and Creative Contest during this week’s MyLife: Chassidus Applied broadcast in honor of Chai Elul.
AstraZeneca has paused a late-stage trial of one of the leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates after a suspected serious adverse reaction in a study participant.
In the year 5750 (1990) the Rebbe donated $10,000 of his personal money to Colel Chabad throughout the course of the year. Join Colel Chabad’s Tishrei Drive as they set out to feed tens of thousands of Israel’s needy this Yomtov.
The Rochester Police Department’s “entire command staff” announced their retirement on Tuesday, the mayor there said, amid raging protests over the death of Daniel Prude, the black man who was killed while being subdued by city cops while he suffered an apparent breakdown.
This lecture on “How to Overcome Fear and Instill Self-Confidence” was delivered by the inspirational speaker Rabbi Shalom Paltiel at the 14th annual National Jewish Retreat.
Leibish Greenbaum, a dear member of anash, passed away last week suddenly at the age of 63. Leibish was the sole breadwinner for his family, who helped support his young grandchildren.
In response to a request from the leadership of the United Arab Emirates, Orthodox Union (OU) Kosher, the world’s largest kosher certification agency, will now be the leading kosher certification agency within the Emirates and will do so in partnership with the local Jewish community.
Achiezer and Chana (nee Laufer) Langsam (Crown Heights)
On Chai-Elul, Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati hosted Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin, who farbrenged for the bochurim late into the night.
Wildfires have burned a record 2 million acres in California this year, and the danger for more destruction is so high the U.S. Forest Service announced Monday it was closing all eight national forests in the southern half of the state.
The Ministerial Committee for Legislation voted Tuesday morning to impose daily curfews on dozens of cities and towns across Israel in a bid to curb the coronavirus pandemic.
After Farbrengeging a whole night in Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati for Chai Elul, Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin was seen davening at the “Amud” at Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport.
Yonatan Markovitch, the Chief rabbi of Kiev, was officially awarded (Yesterday) the Medal and a Certificate of honor of the nation’s parliament – the Verkhona Rada of Ukraine. It is the first time in the country’s history that a Jewish religious leader has been honored with the highest award of the Ukrainian Parliament.
Visiting the Ohel is for everyone. Jews of all stripes, gentiles, celebrities and politicians. But did you know that you had a gentile neighbor that goes to the Ohel more than you?
A unique inside clip on a monumental moment in Chabad history has been released from the archive of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, acquired for his book entitled “Chabad and Gedolim.” The eleven minute clip is of 90 plus year old Rabbi Nosson Greenblatt, the former Rabbi of Memphis, who was a protege student of Reb Moshes in Yeshivas Tiferes Yerushalyim.
The NYPD’s 71st police precinct which covers a majority of the Crown Heights Jewish community announced the seizure of another four guns Sunday night, bringing the total of confiscated guns to eleven in less than a week.
In a letter addressed to the fundraising dinner of Colel Chabad, the Rebbe provides insight to the significance of the month of Elul, and encourages the participants to become partners in Colel Chabad’s important work.
