Rabbi Aharon Rakeffets, a teacher of Rabbinical and Talmudic studies, visited 770 on Monday. Rabbi Rakeffets is a noted scholar with an incredible memory, who was zoiche to be by a farbrengen in the 1950’s and speaks fondly of Lubavitch activities.
Yeshivas Kayitz Kingston hosted the campers parents on visiting day this year, for a memorable day of fun and excitement.
A video has surfaced of the car jacking that occurred this morning on Kingston Ave. The car was brazenly stolen by two teenagers, who dragged the owner of the car, and sent him to the hospital.
On Thursday night 25th July, CBDChabad launched their newest inner city hub to serve the Jewish professionals and residents of Surry Hills.
We all know about Snapple facts, but did you know about New York City facts? According to NYC fact Number 971, there are “18 miles of clear wire strung around much of Manhattan to make a symbolic enclosure (Eruv) on Shabbat.”
President Trump has communed the sentence of Boaz Nachmani, an Orthodox Jew from Miami. The move reportedly comes after his 11 year old son sent a letter to the white house.
Rabbi Mendy and Leah Raskin a new, young, and vigorous source of spiritual strength will be joining the family of shluchim on the Isle of Cyprus.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses how to spot if a child is doing drugs, and the early warning signs with Dr. Miriam Gross. Dr. Miriam Gross, PsyD, MFT was interviewed for Operation Survival’s Prevention101 series.
An animal rights group filed a lawsuit against a Jewish center in Los Angeles to prevent it from holding kapparot, a pre-Yom Kippur religious ritual.
An early morning Kingston Ave car jacking in Crown Heights left a car totaled and another damaged. The car jacker fled the scene on foot, after dragging the owner nearly a block. The owner of the vehicle was taken to the Hospital for his injuries.
If you could put a value on a blessing, what might it be worth? For a unique, nearly 90-year-old blessing, the going rate is $6,750. That’s the amount a bidder paid last week in Tel Aviv for a well-traveled Lincoln penny, the subject of frenzied bidding at the Israeli Genazym Auction House rare artifacts auction July 16.
Historic event – a conference of principles and administrators of all Torah education institutions in New York State. Together, they committed to stand united against our mutual enemies – those who want to infiltrate, and worse yet, contaminate the scared education of our next generation.
A person was shot outside the Young Israel of North Miami Beach, Sunday afternoon. Hatzolah of Miami Dade was on the scene and treated the victim, reportedly in his 60’s, who suffered multiple gunshot wounds to his leg.
The topics in this week’s 270th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Does the Rebbe Say About Vaccinations? Part II; Chassidus Applied to the Three Weeks, the Nine Days and Mattos-Massei; What Is the Rebbe’s Opinion on Using Non-Jewish Books for Chinuch? Is It Appropriate to Paint a Mural of the Alter Rebbe on an Alley Wall?
The Aleph Institute was founded in 1981 by Rabbi Sholom Ber Lipskar at the express direction of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, who was an early and passionate proponent of criminal justice reform. Here are some stories of success.
The developers of a housing project in southeastern New York have sued public officials for trying to prevent the development to keep Hasidic Jews from moving in.
Over three hundred anash and shluchim have already signed up to join a memorable, inspirational program being planned for those spending the seventy-fifth yom hillula of the Rebbe’s father in Alma Ata. An entire hotel has already been completely booked, and a second one has been secured to provide lodging for the many visitors.
