The IDF used a new system, the “Sha’aga” (“Roar”) to disperse violent demonstrators that took part in riots at the Gaza Strip border over the weekend. The rioters numbered in the tens of thousands, ending with four people dead, and hundreds injured.
Several New York City bridges are going to start charging more starting Sunday and one will become the most expensive in the nation.
The wedding of Yitzy Oster of Crown Heights and Chaya Simpson of Crown Heights took place Thursday night at The Razag.
With great sadness, we notify you of the passing of the the Av Beis Din of Bnei Brak Harav Moshe Yehuda Leib Landau OBM, one of the most respected Chabad Rabbonim of our time, passed away on Motzei Shabbos, the 24th of Adar II. He was 83 years old.
This week, “Our Story,” the beautiful weekly story especially for women and girls, presents a story told by Mrs. Chava Altein. JEMCentral presents the story along with the transcript of the Rebbe’s answer.
On Saturday morning, IDF troops apprehended two children near the security fence in the southern Gaza Strip. The children were carrying a knife. Following an initial inquiry by IDF troops in the field, the children explained that they had intended to infiltrate into Israel with a knife so that they would be apprehended and sent to prison.
A hit and run scene straight from the movies unfolded in Crown Heights Friday afternoon. The man attempted to flee the scene, but was caught and held by alert members of the community. A gun was recovered from the scene, and the man arrested.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Shmini:
Rabbi Avtzon is a veteran mechanech and the author of numerous books on the Rebbe and their chassidim. His newest publication Farbreng With Reb Binyomin Kletzker is now available. He is available to farbreng in your community, and can be contacted at avtzonbooks@gmail.com
With the approach of Yud Alef Nissan, Lahak Hanochos publishes a special booklet with the Rebbe’s Maamarim on the new Kapitel. now available for download.
The Gedaliah Society, a group of medical professionals in the Crown heights Community, have compiled an informative letter regarding the Measles virus.
The Jewish holiday of Purim had a double dose of joy at Chabad of Orange County this year. The community celebrated together at “Purim in Paris” as well as the Bar Mitzvah Ceremony of Yossi Burston, son of Chabad directors Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe during the reading of the Torah, circa 1965. Can you identify the date or anyone in the photos?
From Day to Day: Young Scholar’s Calendar and Encyclopedia is going on sale for $13 starting on the 10th Adar II, at Judaica World of Crown Heights. The book is a revised and expanded version of a book authored by the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
This Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Yosef Dovid Chanowitz is a Kosher Field Representative for the OK kosher Certification. He will be speaking on the topic of The prohibition of Kitniyos on Pesach: The origin of the Minhag, the reasons and it’s application nowadays.
JLI has released a video that explains Kosher in 60 seconds. Why do we follow a Kosher Diet? Is it for our physical health? or our spiritual?
Yossi and Yael (nee Hurwitz) Nathanson (Los Angeles, CA)
