Students of shiur alef and shiur beis of Yeshivas Beis Menachem Mendel of Tzfas, have just returned from an inspiring trip to Ukraine, where they visited Kivrei Tzadikim.
The Hanhola of the Yeshivas Beis Shalom YG of Postville have outlines their new Smartphone policy, giving the bochurim more options, while still holding to high standards.
Three major events took place last week in Cannes and its area, with guest of honor Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and in the presence of many personalities and guest. Chief Rabbi Lau was invited by Rabbis Yehuda Leib and Mendel Matusof, Chabad Emissaries to Cannes and region.
A man was arrested Shabbos Day after an alert Shomrim volunteer noticed him breaking into a car. A gentile witness called 911, and assisted in detaining him until the police arrived.
CNN photo editor Mohammed Elshamy resigned on Thursday following the resurfacing of a series of anti-Semitic tweets he posted in 2011.
Why do they hate us? What should we do about it? A new presentation from JEM, coming this Tisha B’av, takes an in-depth look at the Rebbe’s approach to combating ant-Semitism.
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Mevarchim, Parshas Pinchos:
As we are now in the time period that is referred to as Bein Hami’tzorim, (the three weeks between the 17th of Tammuz and the 9th of Av), I decided to post a thought mentioned at a farbrengen last Shabbos.
Two teenagers were arrested early Friday morning after breaking into a School bus parked in Crown Heights. Shomrim was called, and the teenagers taken into custody by the Police.
Mr. Robert Morris Morgenthau, 99, was a prominent lawyer, who from 1975 until 2009 served as the DA for New York County. He also served as US Attorney for the Southern District of NY throughout much of the 1960s on the appointment of John F. Kennedy.
A Jewish man was severely injured Friday morning, after his car fell on him while he was changing a tire on the highway. The man was airlifted to Westchester Medical Center, with Critical Injuries.
There are few remnants of the once flourishing Jewish community of the town of Colmar, in France. These items, which were discovered in 1863, all belonged to an unknown family. Some are now on view at the Met Cloisters museum, part of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe as he enters shul for davening.
Yosef Moshe Weisberg (Moscow) and Menucha Ruderman (Israel)
This Shabbos at the Besht: Rabbi Yisroel Noach Reichik, a member of the Hanhala of Tomchai Tmimim Lubavitch 770, will be giving a shiur on Hilchos Beis Habchirah.
This Parsha teaches of the partitioning of Eretz Yisrael among the Twelve Tribes upon entering the land. In this connection we bring a letter of the Rebbe in which he discusses the issue of present day Eretz Yisrael – where discussion has been taking place regarding the “giving back of the territories for the sake of peace.” There are those whose wrongful approach claims that the Land is ours because of the Balfour Declaration and the goodwill of the United Nations – and it is these people who are ready to give away parts of it for the sake of a nonexistent peace. Yet the ones who base their claim to the land upon the G-d given Torah, where G-d has given it to us as an inheritance, promised to our ancestors, the patriarchs – these people stand loyal to our inheritance.
Rabbi Gershon Avtzon of Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, gave the invocation in the House of Representatives in Washington DC on Thursday. Following that, during an impromptu dance outside the capital, Senator Portman decided to join in for the dance.
