Year after year our community faces a situation at Simchas Beis Hashoeva which troubles us deeply. We get through it, try to forget, and then the following year it hits us even harder.
A hateful vigil being arranged on social media by a fringe group of fanatics failed to gain traction on the streets of Crown Heights Tuesday night, after both the African American and Jewish communities said unequivocally, no.
Pinny Itkin (Scranton, PA) to Esty Baumgarten (East Hampton, NY) L’Chaim: Tonight, Tuesday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Watch these video highlights of hundreds of Chassidim as they visited the resting place of Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Schneersohn in Alma Ata on Chof Av.
The event was filled with joy, joined by members of the Jewish community, Jews visiting from around the world, government officials, and even hundreds of local non-Jewish residents.
With great sadness we report the passing of Mrs. Basya Kalmenson OBM, the wife of Rabbi Sholam Mendel Kalmenon OBM and founder of the Chne Ohr organization in France. She passed away on Tuesday, the 25th of AV, 5785.
“My ask is this. Please come join me and hear the shofar this Rosh Hashana, September 23 and 24. Whether at services or at shofar in the Park, knowing that you have come to do this tremendous mitzva will bring me immeasurable pleasure, peace of mind, and healing.”
33 years ago, on the 25th of Menachem Av, 5752/1992, we experienced Hurricane Andrew – and the tremendous miracles/Nissim that took place after the Rebbe instructed us to stay put and not to evacuate.
The annual Yarchei Kallah brought together vacationers and locals in Hunter, NY, on Motzei Shabbos, marking the yom hilula of Horav Levi Yitzchak Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father.
The Rebbe already gave the answer, clear and direct: “Lo Nifleis Hi Mimcha — it is not beyond you.” Bringing Moshiach does not require lofty calculations or complicated theories. The Rebbe spelled it out for us.
In an uplifting and spirited evening high above the field at Yankee Stadium, friends and supporters of Released Time gathered in a luxury suite for a special event benefiting the furtherance of Jewish education
Two of the three people killed in a club shooting in Brooklyn over the weekend were shooters who exchanged gunfire, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said Monday.
His parents named him Sheftil Binyamin. He was born deaf and attended a Catholic school for children with special needs. In his early twenties he converted to Catholicism and was ordained. Now eighty-three, Cyril lives in Macau, in a center he founded some twenty-five years ago. Rabbi Mendy Rabinowitz of Chabad of Hong Kong reached out, and Cyril visited the Chabad House.
The Powerball jackpot has jumped to a whopping $605 million. Given the jackpot, selecting a cash option will make you $273 million richer.
Chabad on Campus is proud to announce the arrival of 13 new Rabbis and Rebbetzins who have moved out to college campus with their families to shape Jewish life there, and be a home away from home for every single Jew.
The 65-acre development, nestled in the Mount Cobb area in the heights of the Pocono Mountains, marks the beginning of a vibrant new community.
Over a decade ago, when we took over as Directors of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, we deeply questioned our decision. We always knew that we wanted to become Shluchim (emissaries) of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, but in this capacity? What were we thinking?
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