In connection with the parsha – where Moshe pleads for forgiveness after the sin of the golden calf and asks Hashem to reveal His ways – we share a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains two ways to arrive at the understanding and service of G-d: “G-d is all” and “All is G-d.” This eye-opening letter explains briefly yet clearly a basic teaching of chasidus – the making of an abode for G-d in this lowest physical world.
Center City, Philadelphia is home to some of the oldest synagogues in the United States, like the first Ashkenazic congregation established in the Western Hemisphere in 1795. One of these historic synagogues, the 100-year-old Vilna shul, known for its warm, inclusive services, is renovating its vintage sanctuary and moving weekly prayer services to the third floor to allow a new women’s mikvah to be built in its place.
Scheduled for launch tonight, Israel’s “Beresheet” moon lander has a long and perilous flight to the moon. Watch the flight plan, and marvel at how complex space travel can be.
An interesting letter has surfaced at an auction house written by Rebbetzin Nechama Dina Schneerson, regarding the leadership of Lubavitch Chassidism after the passing of her husband the Rayatz.
It was a cold day in the spring of 1979 when 13-year-old Anna Monahemi arrived at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York. She came with a group of 40 Jewish girls—all of them from Iran, each of them alone. Five days later, they were safely in America.
Rabbi David Lesselbaum – a member of the Kfar Chabad community – teaches Torah and Judaism to the Israeli-French community. He was interviewed in his home in Kfar Chabad, Israel, in March of 2013.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Thursday, February 21st, 2019 for snow operations. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The website RebbeDrive, which releases raw unseen content of the Rebbe, has gone mobile with the launch of its new mobile website.
This Past Sunday, the students of Chabad of Georgetown Hebrew School in Brooklyn enjoyed a Kosher Chocolate Factory in honor of Purim Katan.
This educational video is making its rounds on social media, as it shows what NOT to do when you see a school bus with its red lights flashing.
Watch testimonials on how Oholai Torah thinks beyond itself in helping others. Now, they are asking us to think beyond ourselves, and Think Breiter to Give Breiter.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Yosef Simcha Blizinsky, OBM, one of the elder members of Anash in Crown Heights. He passed away this morning, the 15th of Adar 1 5779. He was 86 years old.
Is it too early to be thinking of Purim preparations? Is there any source to suggest that we should already be celebrating? Watch to see what the Rebbe said about getting into the Purim spirit – even with another thirty days to go.
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.
