With great sadness, shock and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Shua Polonsky, OBM, a beloved husband and father to two young girls, after a sudden and brief illness, during which Klal Yisrael of all stripes came together to pray for his recovery. He was 31 years old. Levaya information added.
At around noon in Crown Heights today, a Jewish man was walking near the corner of Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue, when an unidentified man walked over to him, spit on him, and shouted “all you Jews must die.”
Menachem Polonsky, brother of Shua Polonsky, a 31-year old father of 2 who is fighting for his life after contracting a sudden and rare disease, speaks a few heartfelt words about what his brother means to him and all who know and love him, before leading a prayer for his recovery.
On Sunday, November 5, 2017, friends of Chabad of Orange County, New York, led by Shluchim Pesach and Chana Burston, filled the Rushmore Estate Ballroom in Highland Mills for an Evening of Laughter & L’Chaim, celebrating Chabad’s Bar Mitzvah Anniversary. This exciting and fun evening marked this milestone of 13 years of Chabad’s service to the community, which began in June of 2004.
Today, 20 Cheshvan, marks the birthday of the fifth Rebbe of Chabad, the Rebbe Rashab. From the very beginnings of the Chassidic Movement, select students of the Baal Shem Tov and the Maggid were entrusted with the task to “disseminate the wellsprings of Chassidism to the outside.”
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11, for Veterans Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Shmully and Michelle (nee Chandler) Lieberman (Crown Heights)
More than 1,200 students from 120 universities from across North America and Europe and as far away as South Africa converged on Crown Heights this weekend for the annual Chabad on Campus Pegisha. The event has become a highlight of the Jewish campus life calendar, consistently bringing the largest group of Jewish students together for three days of inspiration, education, friendship, and growth.
Rabbi David Lapin is a Torah teacher, rabbi, author, speaker and management consultant presently living in Los Angeles. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project on a visit to New York in June of 2015.
On a warm August afternoon during peak tourist season, a van plowed into Las Ramblas a pedestrian, tree-lined mall in central Barcelona killing 14 people and injuring 100. In October, the Mediterranean city was once again making headlines, this time as tensions exploded between Catalonian separatists declaring independence and crackdowns by the Spanish government.
Shmuly Wolff (Crown Heights) and Brochie Roubini (Milan, Italy)
The Rebbe of Vizhnitz, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager Shlita, visited the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Toronto today. In the above photo he can be seen speaking to the students, alongside the Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Akiva Wagner, Mashpia Rabbi Dovid Leib Vechter, and other members of the Yeshiva’s faculty.
Representatives of the New York City Police Department, Port Authority Police Department, Joint Terrorism Task Force, New Jersey State Police and Bayonne Police Department met in Crown Heights along with members of the Vaad Hakinus to make plans for the upcoming International Kinus Hashluchim, which will bring more than 5,000 people to Crown Heights and Bayonne.
Tonight, Wednesday, 19th of Cheshvan, a memorial will be held marking the first Yahrtzeit of Reb Meilach Zweibel, OBM, legendary Mashpia of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Morristown for some 50 years, and one of the foremost Chabad scholars.
G-d’s not a certain gender. In fact, G-d’s not limited or defined accurately with any terms. So why is G-d so often described as a “He?” What does that symbolize? Rabbi Pinchas Taylor clarifies one of the reasons why this borrowed term is often used.
A new report tallying the number of anti-Semitic incidents in the United States from the beginning of the year through the end of September found a 67 percent surge compared to last year.
A dramatic scene was caught on camera at a wedding hall in northern Israel, when the drummer playing at the event suddenly started choking on a piece of steak.
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