Rabbi Yirmi Cohen visited Member of Paliament of the Government of Canada, Mr. Michael Levitt, of Toronto, and gave him Hand Baked Matza for the Passover Seders. He also sold his chametz (unleavened bread) and put on Tfillin. He is one of the few Jewish M.P’s in the Canadian Government.
Following the spread of measles to the Detroit Jewish community, a massive push was made to stem the tide of the virus, this time successfully. Listen as one of the people infected tells you about experience, and sheds light on why it is imperative to get vaccinated.
When members and supporters of the JEM Foundation from around the world gathered in New York City for the Foundation’s International Gala, they were treated to a number of special presentations. This one, “three Pioneers,” speaks on the start of the Farbrengen Broadcast.
Despite not landing properly on the moon, Beresheets’ successful lunar orbit and attempted landing on the moon still made history as the first privately funded spacecraft to achieve those milestones. XPRIZE is recognizing those historical achievements by granting a $1 million Moonshot Award to SpaceIL, the nonprofit organization behind Beresheet.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe as he listens to the announcement being made at the end of a children rally, circa 5731.
The “V’eleh Shemos – Menachem Mendel” initiative is a worldwide project currently aiming to collect all those named Menachem Mendel after the Rebbe, and feature them in a special album. In conjunction, JEMCentral presents a first hand story regarding naming a child after the Rebbe.
JLI has released another educational video in the Chassidic Gems Series. In it, Rabbi Yossi Jacobson discussed the concept of How a person knows what his unique mission is, and the answer can be found in these two words.
Dov Yehuda Steinmetz (Detroit, MI) to Mushka Silberberg (Chicago, IL) L’chaim: Tonight, Thursday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
In connection with the topic of tzora’as in this week’s parsha, one of the causes of which Chazal attribute to the speaking of loshon hora/slander, we present a letter of the Rebbe where he refers to loshoh hora in the context of a negative experience the correspondent refers to in his letter to the Rebbe.
The Beresheet spacecraft failed to land on the moon Thursday evening after its main engine failed. The landing process started at 10:05 PM Israeli time. The craft was supposed to touch down on the lunar surface approximately 20 minutes later, but appears to have crashed.
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.
