Chaim Weiss is about to enter his junior year of high school at a yeshivah in Far Rockaway, New York, with a summer experience under his belt that will rival that of most of his classmates. The sixteen-year-old was the youngest of a team of four cyclists who completed a six week, 3,100 mile ride across the breadth of the USA last Sunday raising $33,000. A fifth had to drop out along the way due to injury.
With Tishrei coming, and the recent thefts of loose bricks, the deteriorating brick retaining wall in the front of 770 received a protective covering.
In an effort to expand their impact and make the Daily Torah Study accessible to thousands more people Chayenu is holding its first ever fundraising raffle for the prize of $10,000 cash!
A Jewish victim of the Santa Barbara boat disaster was scheduled to be buried on Monday in New Jersey thanks to the Misaskim organization and rabbis from Chabad-Lubavitch and Agudath Israel of America.
Talmidim of the seventh grade of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, along with their fathers, joined together for the Shofar Factory, training the next generation of Shluchim to lead their own workshops.
A Bulla (seal) bearing a Hebrew name from 2,600 years ago was uncovered from dirt excavated in 2013 beneath Robinson’s Arch at the foundations of the Western Wall. The seal is inscribed with the name of an individual with the most prominent role in the king’s court in the kingdom of Judea.
British Airways has canceled almost all its flights for 48 hours, affecting as many as 195,000 travelers, due to a strike by pilots over pay.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced that the International Atomic Energy Agency had found undeclared stores of uranium in a live address Monday evening.
Professor Deborah Lipstadt was selected as the honored recipient of the Jewish Hero Award at this year’s National Jewish Retreat. The award honors her lifelong efforts to combat ignorance and denial of the facts and scale of the Holocaust, and her written, spoken, and legal efforts on behalf of the victims.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses the cause of depression, and how to prevent it with David Schwartz, Psy.D., LCSW, a professional counselor for 40 years. David focuses on evaluation, prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of mental, emotional and behavioral health issues.
On Thursday, August 29th, 2019, 80 years since the establishment of the Beth El Synagogue in Panama and 25 years since Rabbi Aron Laine, began serving as the Spiritual leader there, the community honored him and his wife, Rebetzin Freadel, for their dedication to the community.
As fans of the New York Jets gathered to tailgate before the team kicked off their season in MetLife Stadium, a group of Jewish fans brought a more spiritual take to the festivities. Armed with tefillin and a shofar, Rabbi Eli Goodman of Chabad of the Beaches led a group of congregants in what is being dubbed the “Tefillin Tailgate.”
The Hezbollah terrorist organization claimed on Monday morning that it downed an Israeli UAV in the village of Ramyeh in southern Lebanon. According to the announcement, members of the organization intercepted the UAV with appropriate weapons as it crossed the border from Israel and it is now in the hands of Hezbollah.
A Chabad teenager who nearly lost her life, claiming vaping ruined her lungs, has started a campaign to warn people of the dangers of e-cigarettes – all while she lay in her hospital bed.
On his visit to New York, Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, Shliach to Tamacula California who is battling ALS, visited the Rebe’s Ohel in Queens. He travelled to New York for his youngest sons’ Bar Mitzvah.
The topics in this week’s 276th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Is It Appropriate to Publish Pictures of Women in Our Publications and Websites? What Methods Should Be Used to Discipline Young Students? How Do You Explain Yefas To’Ar and Ben Sorer U’Moreh? What Is the Obligation of a Chabad School to the Children in Their Area? How Does One Balance Between All the Expectations Torah and Chassidus Has of Us and Being at Peace with Oneself?
A Chabad synagogue in Yonkers, New York, has received $100,000 to improve its security infrastructure. The funding was granted by the Federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
