Air Canada has confirmed today that they will honor tickets that were priced without a fuel surcharge due to a glitch that lasted for four hours on Sunday morning, leading to unimaginably cheap fares – such as $200 tickets from Miami to Tel Aviv.
Early Friday morning, police officers and Shomrim volunteers working together apprehended four men after they allegedly broke into several cars to steal valuables left inside.
It’s been another busy summer for CTeen Headquarters. With four travel programs and a new initiative assisting chapters to facilitate local road trips, CTeen has used the summer months to reach and engage over 200 teens by providing them with an immersive overnight experience. The summer trips, spearheaded by Rabbi Nachman Rivkin, have succeeded in instilling yet another generation of teens with an inspired connection to Yiddishkiet.
Brazilian Jewish singer Micha Gamerman is back with his forth animated music video. He released the first this past Purim with a Purim Medley and continued with the Pesach Medley and then the Shavous Medley. Together each music video has over, 86,360 views on Youtube alone.
Hurricane Harvey flooded two of the main kosher supermarkets in Houston, and caused the other two to shut down as well—one has been turned into a shelter by authorities—and supplies are now beginning to run low.
A world-wide registry of ‘open Sukkahs’ all around the world has been set up, and is listed online at www.localsukkah.org. The directory has been designed for Jews to locate a Sukkah near to them, so that they can go there to eat.
Mayor Bill de Blasio has signed legislation raising the minimum price for a pack of cigarettes to $13 in New York City, making it the most expensive place to buy cigarettes in the U.S.
“NYC HASIDIC DRIVERS IN MINIVANS ARE DEADLY!! LOCALS BE CAREFUL!” is the anti-Semitic message scrawled on a garbage bin outside the popular Stewart’s gas station in Fallsburg, NY, a popular summer destination for Chasidic families from New York City.
Why do traditional synagogues have separate seating for men and women? Enjoy a quick look into the history of the Mechitza in this lecture delivered by Professor Jonathan Sarna at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat.
As unprecedented amounts of rain continue to fall across the Houston area, evacuation orders continue to be issued. One such mandatory evacuation is taking place at Chabad of Sugar Land, a suburb of Houston.
50 shluchim, shluchos, Chabad House administrators, and staff recently gathered in Aventura on Aug. 15 for “Face-to-Face with ChabadOne,” an immersive training conference on the manifold tools and services offered by Chabad.org’s ChabadOne platform. The daylong event was hosted by Lubavitch Aventura South.
In an escalation of a feud among Polish Jews over a perceived increase in anti-Semitic rhetoric and the government’s role in stopping it, a communal leader called Jews who met with a ruling party politician his “court Jews.”
In addition to three active Chabad yeshivas in Moscow, this week an additional new yeshiva opened its doors in the Chassidic village of Malachovka in Moscow’s suburbs. The sounds of Torah proudly resounds in Russia’s capital.
Homes, cars and streets throughout Houston are under water as torrential rains from Hurricane Harvey—now downgraded from a Category 4 hurricane to a tropical storm—continue to drench the city and cause catastrophic flooding throughout the region. At least five people have died as a result.
A man and his wife perished in a late night blaze in Boro Park last night, and their 17 year old daughter suffered minor injuries in a fast moving fire that tore through their house in the middle of the night.
Moshe and Miriam Vogel (Rehovot, Israel)
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