This Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Klein studied at Chabad Yeshivos in the UK and Miami before receiving his Smicha from Rabbi Faitel Levin in Melbourne, Australia. He currently writes for Chabad.org. He also gives regular shiurim at the Chabad house of Pratt Institute and Clinton Hill and is available for one on one learning sessions. He will be giving a shiur on The Halachos of Birchas Hatorah.
Last week many wrote or spoke about their memories of Reb Yoel and his farbrengens. This week I am posting one of the stories he would often relate at a farbrengen.
Zodiac Maritime, the Israeli company that manages the ship attacked off the coast of Oman, has confirmed that two individuals on board have died due to the attack.
In this weeks Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman delves into the real meaning of the Mana, and how it never completely satisfied, and it was not supposed to.
Is revenge a Jewish concept? Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Yisroel Meir Lau discusses the horrors of the Holocaust, trust in God and how we can take revenge on the people who tried to destroy us.
Outside the beautiful hotel in Almati, Kazakhstan, Shluchim from across the Former Soviet Union stood proudly for their official Kinus Hashluchim group photo.
In honor of Chof Menachem Av, we present an amazing Maamar from Rebbe Shlomo Zalman Of Kapust, who was the grandson of the Tzemach Tzedek, regarding Elul, Selichos and Rosh Hashana. This Maamar is being published here for the first time from manuscript.
With guns drawn, Police officers make two arrests in Crown Heights in a car theft chase that involved three Shomrim Divisions. One of the perpetrators was located in the garage of a Jewish home after an intense search.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe at a wedding.
The Nelken family will be sitting Shiva following the passing of Rabbi Yechiel Dov Nelken OBM. Times and location in extended article.
The first children’s Sefer Torah was finalized in 5741 (1981), on the 20th day of the Hebrew month of Av, the anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe’s father. Exactly 40 years later, the seventh Torah scroll was finished in the same place.
It’s straight out of a movie. A pair of gunpoint carjackers were tracked and caught on Washington Ave in Crown Heights Wednesday night, and the car recovered.
On the first day of the Kinus Hashluchim for the countries of the former Soviet Union, a series of iconic moments were captured on camera by photographer Yehezkel Itkin.
During our present confusing times, when even men of science seem to be compromised, afraid to lose their position, and we cannot truly know what is fact and what is not – we present a letter of the Rebbe that addresses this very question: if men of science are aware of what modern science says about “laws” and “theories” of science, especially as it pertains to the theory of evolution (one of the weakest theories) – why are they not saying it?
Two lucky CGI Detroit campers travelled to New York today in honor of Chof Av. Schneur Zalman Backan and Shea Shmotkin were the winners of a raffle held at camp and represented the boys’ division by the Rebbe today.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio has a message for Jewish New Yorkers: If you want to be fully vaccinated by Rosh Hashanah, you need to get your first Pfizer shot by Monday.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Yechiel Dov Nelken OBM, a former member of anash of Montreal, Canada and more recently of Toronto. He passed away on Thursday, the 20th of Av, 5781.
