Two years ago, Mikvah.org instituted a comprehensive Kallah Teachers Training Course to ensure that every kallah would be able to learn from the best. Under the direct leadership and guidance of Harav Sholom Ber Chaikin of Cleveland, OH, over 35 women trained intensively for a full year.
In the wake of the latest mass shootings, a Crown Heights yeshiva for girls is the first school in NYC to install metal security doors aimed at protecting kids from active shooters.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Mockin OBM, a long time member of anash in Crown Heights. He passed away on shabbos, the 9th of Av 5779. Updated with Levaya information.
A Jewish man was beaten with a stick and pepper sprayed just before shabbos in what is being characterized as a Hate crime. The perpetrator was arrested by the NYPD, with the help of Crown heights Shomrim.
Shabak (Israel Security Agency) working together with Israel Police and the IDF, arrested two suspects believed to have been involved in the murder of IDF soldier and peace activist Dvir Sorek.
Chabad of Tzfas hosted thousands of guests for visitors marking the yartzeit of the Arizal Hakadosh. The visitors were hosted in a large tent erected special for the occasion.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations are suspended on Sunday through Tuesday, August 11th-13th, 2019 for a Holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
At the Chabad of Pleasanton California was severely damaged last night after a fire broke out in the rear of the building, engulfing nearly the entire exterior. The interior was miraculously nearly untouched, and no foul play is suspected.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Parshas Devorim:
As this Monday, the eleventh of Menachem Av is the yahrzeit of Reb Hillel Halevi Paritcher, I decided to post a story about him, that I plan to include in the expanded edition of my book on him.
A Buenos Aires synagogue inaugurated in 1907, one of the first in Argentina, was recovered after 20 years of being overrun with squatters. City police and security cleared the building of squatters this week following orders from the Justice Ministry and a lawsuit filed by a Chabad-Lubavitch rabbi working in the La Boca area.
France agreed not to target Arab terrorists who killed French Jews in Paris in 1982 if they refrain from carrying out further attacks on French soil, a former top spy revealed.
Due to the Muslim holiday of Eid al Adha, the Ma’aras HaMachpela will be closed to Jews on Tisha B’av this year. Eid al Adha is a four day Muslim holiday that begins this year on Sunday, August 11th, the date when Tisha B’Av will be commemorated by Jews around the world as the mourning is being pushed off until after Shabbos.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe.
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 7 Av 1990 (5750).
This week, we present a special letter from the archives of Rabbi Nissan Mindel, with the Rebbe’s handwritten notations and corrections. The letter covers the topics of the nine days and three weeks, which are regarded as a period of mourning. It discusses that these days also have a message of hope and good tidings, and how to prepare for this happy time by rebuilding the third Bais Hamikdash.
Brooklyn remains infested by more beady-eyed rodents than any other borough in the city — a dubious distinction the borough’s held for the second year running, according to a newly released study.
