From Tucson, Arizona, to Melbourne, Australia, thousands of Hebrew school students from around the world are joining the JewQ International Torah Championship. And it’s changing their lives. Watch the Promo video for the coming JewQ competition.
Meir and Sarah (nee Alfasi) Wolf (Crown Heights)
Permits have been filed for an eight-story mixed-use building on Nostrand Avenue in Crown Heights. Located between Montgomery Street and Sullivan Place, the lot is three blocks north of the Sterling Street subway station, serviced by the 2 and 5 trains.
An arrest has been made in a car theft that occurred on August 5th in Crown Heights. The car was that was stolen had a young child in the car, prompting a large search. The car, with its young occupant, was found nearby soon after.
The Liberman Family will be sitting Shiva following the passing of their brother, Rabbi Yerachmiel Ber (Rachmiel) Liberman OBM. The family will be getting up from Shiva on Thursday morning. Times and locations in extended article.
IDF fighter jets recently targeted a number of terror targets in Aqraba, Syria, southeast of Damascus. The IDF has confirmed multiple strikes against Iranian targets outside Damascus following Intelligence that Iran was planning to launch armed drones at northern Israel.
Each time the Rebbe distributed dollars, individuals were touched and lives were impacted. Presented here are photos of several highlights and encounters from Sunday Dollars of 24 Av 1991 (5751).
Following a brief period without a car break-in, Crown Heights vehicles were again targeted in at least two incidents Thursday night. In at least one of the break-ins, the car window was broken to gain entry.
Hundreds of shuls and Chabad Houses held viewings of the new JEM Presents: The Rebbe on Anti-Semitism presentation over Tisha B’av, and countless people played it in their homes. Overall, many tens of thousands watched and learned from the Rebbe.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Eikev:
Since this week is Shabbos mevorchim chodesh Elul, and as the Frierdiker Rebbe writes that the winds of Elul should be felt, I decided to post a draft of one of the chapters from the upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab, the fifth volume in The Rebbeim Biography Series. I chose this chapter, as it explains via a parable the purpose why Hashem sent our neshomos into this world – one of the primary objectives of Elul.
Magen David Adom (MDA) personnel were forced to declare the death of Rina Shnerb, A 17-year-old woman injured Friday in a terror attack near the Binyamin-region town of Dolev.
Yeshivas Kayitz Yerushalyim completed their first year of operation with resounding success. Headed by Rabbi Yosef Avtzon and Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson, the program combined a good learning environment and farbrengens with incredible trips and travels across Eretz Yisroel.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe.
With great sadness we report the untimely passing of Rabbi Yerachmial Ber (Rachmiel) Liberman OBM, a dedicated Chossid of the Rebbe, and the Rabbi of Congregation Lubavitch in South Brookline Massachusetts.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that a New York City Police Department officer has been indicted for insurance fraud, falsifying business records and related charges for allegedly filing a false insurance claim, stating his vehicle was stolen when, in fact, the same car was found burned down at an earlier date.
A search in Harriman State Park for four missing teenagers ended without incident, Thursday afternoon. Sources tell YWN that Chaverim of Rockland along with Chaverim of Kiryas Joel launched the search at around 3:30PM. There were more than 2 dozen trained search volunteers searching the forest, and a command center was set up.
