In a tremendous display of Achdus among Klal Yisroel, a large truck was filled to the brim in Lakewood, NJ, with kosher food to be donated to stranded and hungry families. The distribution will be coordinated by Chabad of Houston.
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With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yosef Tzvi Volovik, OBM, a beloved father, grandfather and longtime member of the Crown Heights community, after a short illness. He was 71 years old.
For people who are looking for another way to help those impacted by the flooding in the Houston region, Chabad-Lubavitch Center, Texas Regional Headquarters has created an Amazon Wish List with basic items that are desperately needed as supplies run out.
The Karate Kid is one of the most iconic film trilogies of all time, starring Martin Kove as evil karate master John Kreese. Rabbi Pinchas Taylor, a shliach in south Florida, recently caught up with Martin Kove and spoke with him about his Jewish heritage on his show “Taylor Talks.”
Bochurim Mendel Danow and Levi Loewenthal describe an amazing encounter they experienced while traveling through rural Denmark to find isolated Jews and light their spark as part of the ‘Merkos Shlichus’ program.
Smiling Talmidim with their proud parents filled the halls at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights, excited for their first day of the 5778 school year.
A sudden sinkhole in a Williamsburg street swallowed a man’s foot, trapping it there until it was extricated by the Fire Department.
The Jewish community of Kherson in southern Ukraine celebrated the opening of a memorial complex at the burial site of Rabbi Hillel from Parich, one of the region’s most prominent rabbis in the 19th century.
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.
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