A Montreal theater company is debuting a play to explore the incredible life of Faige Jacobson, Crown Heights’ ‘Queen of Chessed.’ Her son, Rabbi Asher Jacobson, appeared for an interview on a local TV channel to give a glimpse into the extraordinary lengths of his mother’s acts of kindness to strangers in need.
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Students in Oholei Torahs’ eight grade enjoyed a special day where fathers joined them and together they learned and experienced a school day together.
Police are trying to find those responsible for taking a menorah from outside the home of a rabbi at Penn State University, and leaving it damaged in front of the Sigma Alpha Mu Jewish fraternity.
The vivid blue mural with swimming fish on the side of a duplex at the corner of Victoria and Kent avenues in Montreal has been attracting attention for months. Only the members of the surrounding Lubavitch community likely recognize the elderly bearded man at the center. It’s obviously the creation of a professional – but who?
Read the fascinating and dramatic story of a Chabad Shliach who won’t stop giving of himself, and this time wanted to give even more, quietly, secretly; a heart-warming story of mesirus nefesh that happened this year.
Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, one of the youngest survivors of Buchenwald, was just eight years old when he was liberated in 1945. Descended from a 1,000-year unbroken chain of rabbis, he grew up to become Chief Rabbi of Israel, and like many of the great rabbis, Rabbi Lau is a master storyteller.
A terrible tragedy has occurred Monday in the central Israeli town of Kfar Chabad, when a 19-year-old girl studying in a local seminary was killed in a horrible accident.
Not long after we read in the Parsha about Avraham Avinu undergoing circumcision at age 99, a 90-year-old Jewish man was circumcised at the Chabad Menorah Center’s clinic in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.
Shalmie and Ety (nee Hurwitz) Mochkin (Bal Harbour, FL)
Yossi (ben Shloime) Feldman (Crown Heights) and Sarale Bronstein (Andover, MA)
Levi and Devory (nee Goldberg) Keselman (Crown Heights)
Sydney had the great honor of hosting the Chief Rabbi of Israel, Rabbi Dovid Lau, who was invited by the Sydney Beth Din to enhance and encourage Australian Jewry to continue in the footsteps of their fathers to stay strong and to flourish in Torah and Mitzvos.
After Rabbi Yitzchok Goldstein wrote to the Rebbe that he wishes to come spend Tishrei with the Rebbe in New York, the Rebbe responded. “I am with you in Madrid!” Read about this and other fascinating response of the Rebbe revealing his deep connection to his Shluchim in the extended article.
JLI presents its unique two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from a timely tale. This week’s video for Parshas Toldos is titled: Insincere Charity.
In an impressive and heart-warming ceremony, a “Center for Torah Study,” the first of its kind, has opened its doors in Russia’s largest Muslim republic. Tatarstan is home to about ten thousand Jews, many of whom are members of the developed Jewish community in the capital city of Kazan under the leadership and guidance of shliach Rabbi Yitzchak Gorelik, who will also direct the new yeshiva.
On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, Footprints: Colorful Lives, Huge Impact, a new photo book by Dovid Zaklikowski, documents the struggles and victories of three Jewish families who lived under the Communist regime.
This year, to mark 40 years since Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5738, JEM will be presenting a beautiful 6 part WhatsApp series highlighting the events surrounding this story.
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