Israel‘s first spacecraft designed to land on the moon is set to blastoff from Florida on Thursday in the first privately-funded lunar mission, as the Jewish state seeks to become only the fourth nation to reach the surface of Earth’s natural satellite.
Chabad of Moscow hosted a Melavah Malka in honor and benefit of the central Gmach in Russia, “Keren Chaya Mushka”, which was founded eighteen years ago in blessed memory of the young shlucha Chaya Mushka a’h Lazar, daughter of Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar. Since then, thousands of Jews all over the FSU have received, and continue to receive, assistance daily, in a respectable and dignified manner, through one or another of its many programs.
Rabbi Yakov and Odelia Sara (nee Guedj) Kulik (Rehovot, Israel)
For the first time in the Princeton Club’s history, a kosher caterer took full charge of the facility, serving a kosher sit-down dinner for 130 guests. Although previously one could order individual kosher meals, and the Webbs had organized kosher buffets there for a few years, the December gala broke precedent.
In the first event of its kind, 250 children gathered in Crown Heights on Monday evening to watch an hour long Rally of the Rebbe, in grand ending to ‘Connection Point,’ a weekly learning program.
A young member of the Chabad community decided to take an ongoing issue to its root in an opinion editorial. Is Lubavitch a more “Modern” form of Chassidism? Did the Rebbe ever believe in compromising values?
A music video, named “We The Children,” was released by the Lubavitch children of Tzivos Hashem in honor of Purim Koton.
Rabbi Dr. Dovid Fox, Director of Interventions and Community Education, and Project Chai of Chai Lifeline, published a letter to the Crown Heights community, outlining concrete steps parents can take to empower and protect their children from potential dangerous situations.
As we approach twenty-five years since Gimmel Tammuz, a new project, V’eleh Shemos – Menachem Mendel, aims to collect all those with the name Menachem Mendel and feature them in a special album.
Last night Chabad of Georgetown, Brooklyn hosted a beautiful Purim Katan party for the neighborhood organized by Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Holtzberg. Packed with community members of all ages, the crowd enjoyed the Purim atmosphere filled with uplifting Purim singing and delicious Purim foods.
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The year was 1940, and Avraham Tzvi Landa had every reason to be scared. A Polish refugee in Vilna (Vilnius), he had recently joined the Chabad yeshivah there. While his fellow students were on a list to receive visas to the United States, he was not. The story of the life Rabbi Avraham Tzvi Landa obm.
The Annual Forum for Shluchim who serve as Rabbis of Chabad Houses throughout the capital city of Moscow, hosted about forty people this year, with each of them representing another one of the Capital City’s regions.
A letter from the Rabonim worldwide has come out slamming the website COLLive in its conduct that goes against Chabad-Lubavitch values. The letter also applauds the shluchim and anash who have committed to refrain from using the website as a news service or platform for advertising or publishing.
The Mic drop event planned for the Aliya Institute in Crown Heights has reportedly been cancelled. This comes after it publicized that it had received permission to go through with the event despite a rabbinic ban from all Crown Heights Rabbonim.
Following the recent attack on the synagogue run by Rabbi Heller in Bushwick, his students have initiated a GoFundMe campaign to help enhance the Chabad House, and give a needed boost to the activities in the center. They penned a letter to the public asking to join in this mitzvah.
A delegation of the heads of the the Rabbinical Congress for Peace, led by Rabbi Joseph Gerlitzky, Rabbi of central Tel Aviv, Rabbi Avraham Schreiber, rabbi of the Shavei Shomron settlement, and Rabbi and Yirmiya Cohen, a Chief Rabbinical Justice in Europe and Jerusalem, met yesterday with Germany’s ambassador to Israel, Susanne Vassum-Rainer.
