Watch live at 2:45pm as Beresheet, Israels moon lander, makes its touchdown on the moon. The 1,290-pound (585-kilogram), dishwasher-sized lander was built by Israeli nonprofit space venture SpaceIL and state-owned defense contractor Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) with $100 million furnished almost entirely by private donors.
As the Beresheet – Israels moon lander – nears the landing phase of its journey to the moon, it took its place on the list of arriving flights throughout the world.
Yoni and Rivky (nee Friedman) Katz (Crown Heights)
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has again put herself into some political hot water after giving a speech at a Muslim Rights Group event. In the speech she said about 9/11 that “Some People Did Something,” refusing to name them terrorists.
Since 1970, Rabbi Moishe Yosef Engel has served as a Chabad emissary in Long Beach, California. He was interviewed in September of 2011.
A humorous guide on the official way to put together a Jewish music video has been released. Named “Yerakrak,” it gives a clear step by step process on how to make any Jewish music video.
The L’Chaim of Moishe Teitelbaum of Buenos Aires, Argentina and Chaya’le Cohen of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn took place Wednesday evening at Lubavitch Yeshiva Crown Street.
Bochurim of Paris visited the Bais Chaya Mushka Campus in Paris to attend a panel and farbrengen on Yud Aleph Nissan with the Rebbe throughout the years. Speaking at the event was Rabbi Yitzchak Gabai, Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Azimov, and Rabbi Shmuel Lubetzki.
Yeshivas Kayitz Yerushalayim has announced their staff for this coming summer of 5779/2019. The summer staff will include: Yosef Chaim Elgarten, Mendel Fayershteyn, Dovi Naparstek, Mendel Wilhelm, and Mendy Felberman.
Rabbi Mendel Markel has begun on the path of recording and publicizing the Chabad negunim that are less known. His first stop, the “Tenuah,” composed by Rabbi Moshe Morosow z”l.
Each year, before Pesach and Sukkos, the Chasdei Lev organization shows gratitude to rebbis from all different communities by providing them with bulk amounts of food, snacks and papergoods. This year, a group of students from Oholei Torah’s eighth grade joined the volunteer team, and helped load melamdims cars with the gifts.
This years Yud Aleph Nissan Tank parade will be leaving this coming Tuesday, Yud Alef Nissan April 16th, from Kingston Ave and President St. It will pass the Tzivos Hashem rally in front of 770 after the Rebbe’s Minyan at 10:30am SHARP.
There are more Jews attending Passover Seders than Yom Kippur services, according to a Pew Research study, but those spending the Holiday of Freedom in hospitals are usually unable to participate. Not anymore! With the new Seder-to-Go kit produced by Chabad on Call, chaplains and rabbis within the medical community now have a great resource for individual or hospital-friendly celebrations.
Baal Menagen Rab Sholom Brochstat recently sang his new Niggun for Yud Aleph Nissan at a local event. He has already composed a few Nigunim that have became quite popular in Lubavitch.
An Arab woman from Tulkarm attacked a security guard with a knife as he was checking the bus she traveled on Wednesday afternoon at the A-Za’ayyim checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ma’aleh Adumim.
This past Sunday, Darchai Menachem teamed up with ENY Auto to host a pre-Pesach car wash. 8th grade students scrubbed, vacuumed, and hosed down car after car to raise money for the new PTA.
Watch as a European telescope commission displays the first ever true photos of a black hole.
