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New Engagement!
Mendy Drelich (Edmonton, Canada) and Shoshana Goldshmidt (Miami, FL)
Weekly Living Torah Video: The Jewish Woman
In the leadup to Shavuos each year, the Rebbe would address the annual Nshei Chabad Women’s Convention. Here, JEM presents a collection of videos in which the Rebbe discusses the unique and vital contribution of the Jewish woman.
Jewish Hipsters Flock to Crown Heights
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.
Shluchim Help Woman Fulfill Her Last Wish
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.
Weekly Story: He Meant It the Entire Time
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 Expands to New Building in Australian Capital
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.
Weekly JLI Video: Duty with Purpose
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.
1,000 Join Lag Ba’omer Parade in Detroit
Close to a thousand men, women, and children gathered together for Lag B’Omer in Oak Park, Michigan.
Jewish Unity and Pride in Europe’s Diamond Capital
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 Not Left Out of Lag Ba’omer Festivities
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.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a Chabad supporter, circa late 1980s.
Baby Boy!
Sendy and Frumie (nee Simpson) Dubrawsky (Crown Heights)
From Days Gone By: 50 Years of Mivtza Tefilin
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.
Weekly Letter: Leaving the Land Fallow
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.
Boy Scout Builds a Mikvah
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.
Shloshim Held for Murdered Chabad Rabbi
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.
