A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory: Known as Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew – the “hipster,” reports Ben Sales for the JTA. Is this a positive or negative development? Share your opinion in the comments section.
Isolated in an assisted living facility in Peru, Illinois, 100 miles from Chicago, Selma Rosenberg longed for a visit from a rabbi. On the day before her death, she finally got her wish.
Livid with anger, the poritz began berating the innkeeper; “Twenty years ago, I rented you this inn and it was in perfect condition, and now look at what you did to it. You neglected it and it is now worthless, you will pay dearly for this!”
Chabad of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), has announced that it is expanding into a new additional building, which it will use to extend its communal, educational and humanitarian activities.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Behar-Bechukosai is titled: Duty with Purpose.
Close to a thousand men, women, and children gathered together for Lag B’Omer in Oak Park, Michigan.
This past Sunday, on Lag B’omer, the residents of ‘Europe’s center for diamonds’ – Antwerp, Belgium, were witness to a grand display of yiddishkeit in the open, a real Kiddush Hashem.
Africa was not left out of Sunday’s Lag Ba’omer festivities, as Rabbi Israel Uzan, Shliach to Abuja, the capital of the continent’s largest country, Nigeria, organized a Lag Ba’omer parade as a way for the few Jews living there to demonstrate their pride.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a Chabad supporter, circa late 1980s.
Sendy and Frumie (nee Simpson) Dubrawsky (Crown Heights)
50 years ago, in the anxious days leading up to the outbreak of the Six-Day-War, the Lubavitcher Rebbe launched his first Mivtza (campaign) – that every Jewish male above the age of 13 should put on Tefilin, and he assured that in this merit G-d would show the Jewish people miracles. The rest is history.
This week, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he clarifies the concept of shmitta – going beyond the limited understanding of it as merely a sabbatical for the land to recoup its strength. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Rochester, N.Y. boy scout Benjy Spanjer was getting impatient. It had been nine years, and the 17-year old was more than ready to advance to the highest achievement in the boy scouts hierarchy, that of the eagle scout.
The Jewish community of Paris, France, gathered together Wednesday night to mark the Shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Mendel Deutsch, HYD, a former member of their community who was brutally murdered by thugs in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir.
A car slammed onto a busy sidewalk in Times Square about an hour ago, killing at least one person and injuring 22 others. Police say the incident is not terror related.
The rainstorm that came down upon Brooklyn on Lag B’omer did not stop the over 1,000 participants who arrived for the Parade in Kensington. They were all in high spirits and enjoyed the magnificent program.
An Israeli settler opened fire when a group of Palestinians crowded around his car and pelted it with rocks in the West Bank today, Thursday. One of the rock throwers was killed.
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