Benjy Stock, a great baal chesed for the Crown Heights community, penned a letter asking for the community’s help in an urgent matter.
Holocaust survivor Eva Schloss met privately on Thursday with a group of high school students in California who were photographed giving the Nazi salute while standing around a swastika made of red cups. The meeting was arranged through a local Chabad House.
Daylight Savings Time begins on Motzai Shabbos and we ‘spring ahead’ – at 2:00am it will become 3:00am – taking away an hour of sleep.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Mendy (ben R’ Akiva) Wagner (Toronto, ON) to Dassi (bas R’ Dovid Aba) Mochkin (Rochester, NY) which took place Thursday night at Beis Levi Yitzchak.
Mendel Gurkov (Long Island, NY) and Rivka New (Australia)
The Baras Family will be sitting Shiva for Rabbi Zalman Baras obm. The family will be sitting Shiva at 437 Sterling St, right door/upstairs.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Pekudei:
On Thursday, March 7, 2019, Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-NY) spoke on the House floor condemning Rep. Ilhan Omar for her anti-Semitic remarks ahead of voting no on the Democrats’ anti-Semitism Resolution.
In the hustle of modern life, families have shrunk, and fewer children born. Many say that it is for the better, as who can handle so many? Aliza bas Menachem takes on this myth in this Op Ed, titled “Why Don’t All Families Have a Lot of Kids?”
Being that this past week (the 21st of Adar), was the yahrzeit of the tzaddik Reb Elimelech of Lizhensk (if you commemorate it in both months of Adar), I chose to post a story about him and his greatness.
At Vaad Hatmimim’s grand Halikut Siyum on Likkutei Sichos Cheilek Chof, held on the 11th of Shevat 5779, the editors of Lekutei Sichos came to celebrate. The event happened following the tests and competitions completed on the Sichos, and the Bochurim were excited to greet all those who had taken part in the editing of Likkutei Sichos.
A broad coalition of Yeshivas, yeshiva parents and organizations that promote and protect the rights of parents to choose yeshiva education for their children filed a lawsuit today challenging the new State Education Department (SED) guidelines regulating all of the state’s private schools.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe during the Purim Farbrengen of 1953.
NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio responds to a reporters question on the remarks made by Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. He calls her remarks anti-Semitic, and calls the remarks out as being inappropriate.
In preparation for Purim, in the month of Adar Beis, we share a letter of the Rebbe about the significance of Shalach Monos and how it comes to rectify the transgression, by some, in the days of Achashverosh. The circumstances of the day brought about a misconception by some Jews that it is the beginning of a new “era” of complete assimilation.
The US House of Representatives on Thursday approved by an overwhelming majority a measure broadly condemning anti-Semitism and other forms of hatred. The measure condemning “anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry” was passed by a vote of 407-23, with 23 Republicans opting to vote against the resolution.
Shuli and Esty (nee Lasker) Kahan (Crown Heights)
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