Stories of Mesiras Nefesh in the Holocaust can be found in books and videos that are your fingertips. But this one story is engraved on the tombstone of a Marine who survived World War Two, and attributes his survival to putting on tefillin and not eating unkosher meat.
The Chabad community in Montreal, one of the only cities in the world which organizes a grand Lag BaOmer Parade whether its Sunday or in middle of the week, celebrated the yahrzeit of the Rashbi.
The Maccabees of Crown Heights, the precursor to today’s Crown Heights Community Patrol, were a group of volunteers looking to help the community. This video, a mashup of old films about them from that time, are from circa 1964.
Six people were shot and one person killed in Memorial Day shootings in Brooklyn. according to 1010Wins. The shootings come in a rise of gun violence in Brooklyn.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses Teens Self Medicating and Anxiety with Dena Gorkin for the prevention101 series. Dena Gorkin is the Director of Community Education for NCFJE’s Operation Survival, and founder and principal of Bnos Chomesh Academy high school for girls.
The L’Chaim of Isaac Abelsky of Crown Heights and Chaya Devora Nelkin of Crown Heights) took place Sunday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights.
The past Shabbos Parshas Behar, Shluchim from many Western States gathered for the Western regional Kinus. The first of eleven regional JLI conferences taking place across the globe through the summer, the event was a change from JLI’s national conference in New York.
The special committee discussing the dissolution of the Knesset determined on Monday evening that the elections for the 22nd Knesset will take place on Tuesday, September 17, 2019.
This summer, Shluchim from all across the country will also visit Lancaster. They are coming for professional development. They will learn and develop new skills in communication and fundraising at the 2nd annual “Grow Gelt” conference.
One man was taken into custody by the police Monday after Shomrim caught him red handed breaking into cars on President Street. The man, who was being watched after other attempts to get into cars, was completely unaware of the volunteers watching.
Israeli bombed a Syrian military post in the country’s south on Monday, after Syria had fired at one of its aircraft during a routine mission within Israeli airspace. The IDF strike killed a Syrian soldier and injured another.
How many times have educators wondered: What is going on in the minds of our students? How can we truly help them without understanding them? How many times have students sat in a classroom and pondered: Do our teachers even know us? How can we learn if they don’t know who they’re teaching? In order to spark dialogue between mechanchim and students in our community, and to create useful conversation that will bring clarity to both sides, the N’shei Chabad Newsletter is hosting its first ever writing contest.
This week, “Our Story,” the beautiful weekly story especially for women and girls, presents a story told by Mrs. Devorah Sufrin.
Jewish college students in Jacksonville, Florida, and the city’s Southside Jewish community celebrated the opening of their new $2.4 million Morris and Lillian Tabacinic Chabad campus and Frinker-Frankel Chabad center earlier this winter, in style.
JLI presents another video in its Chassidic Gems Series. “Make the Clock Work” tackles the question, What is the secret to time management? It’s a question you must answer every day!
The winners of the Chasdei Avrohom Eliezer Camp Fund Auction have been officially announced. The auction, which was held on Sunday evening, drew hundreds of community members in support of the camp fund.
Though it doesn’t have a synagogue or other Jewish infrastructure, Darwin, Australia now boasts one important Jewish edifice: a cemetery.
