Death March Victims Remembered in Kaliningrad
A solemn ceremony was conducted in Kaliningrad, Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave, commemorating the thousands of Jewish victims of the Baltic “Death march” and its aftermath in 1945.
Video: Why Is Happiness Important?
This Shabbos we bless and welcome the month of Adar, during which we must increase in happiness. Why is happiness important? Find out in this fascinating and inspiring Shiur by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
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Leibel and Chana (nee Branover) Wolosow (Crown Heights)
Photo: Rebecca Fenn
New Orleans Chabad Hosts Shabbos for 1100 Students
At a school where 27 percent of the student body is Jewish, Shabbat is no minor venue. Yet, despite the hundreds of students who show up to weekly dinners, Rabbi Leibel Lipskier decided to raise the bar: Shabbat 1000, a Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center-sponsored event, was held on Feb. 10 on the Newcomb Quadrangle. More than 1100 students were present.
Shliach Condemns Anti-Semitic Hate in Toronto
Politicians and Jewish leaders came together Wednesday to condemn the anti-Semitic notes left at a Toronto area condo building.
New Sefer Explores Rebbes’ Shabbos Customs
A long awaited book has finally hit the shelves: Sefer Halichos Uminhagai Shabbos Kodesh and Shabbos Mvorchim, compiled by Rabbi Michoel Seligson, is a compilation of the customs of the Lubavitch Rebbe’im relating to all aspects of Shabbos.
CTeen Makes Its Way to Crown Heights
Hundreds of CTeen chapters from around the world have begun their travels to New York for the 9th annual CTeen shabbaton. Delegations from France, Russia, Brazil, England and Israel have arrived this morning, with thousands more expected to arrive by early afternoon.
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Mendy and Chaya’le (nee Katzman) Golomb (Crown Heights)
Here’s My Story: A Lantern in a Quaqmire
Rabbi Betzalel Kinn was a teacher from the mid-1950s until 1977. He also ran a Chabad center in Thanet, England, from 1964 until 1974. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Manchester, England, in March of 2015.
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Yosef and Menucha Rochel (nee Gutnick) Barber (Crown Heights)
‘Baltic Pearl’ Seminar Re-Energizes Jewish Women
Jewish women throughout the Former Soviet Union gathered last week for events that combined learning, relaxing and celebrating.
Video: Before You Eat, Don’t Forget to…
Crown Heights Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson takes a humorous look at one of the newer customs we observe prior to eating our food.
VP Makes Unannounced Stop at Vandalized Cemetery
Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to the St. Louis Jewish cemetery which was vandalized yesterday. He gave a speech through a loudspeaker.
M.A.S.K. Celebrates 20 Years of Saving Kids
M.A.S.K. , Mothers and Fathers Aligned Saving Children, celebrated its 20th Anniversary on Feb 12, at the new Bison & Bourbon on 7th Street in Brooklyn, hosted by Jay Buchsbaum. N.Y.C.’s First Lady, Chirlane McCray, was the guest speaker. Many community leaders and elected officials were in attendance, as well as many grateful parents.
Steven Spielberg’s Mother, Beloved Restaurateur, Dies
Leah Adler, the mother of three-time Academy Award-winning director Steven Spielberg and much beloved figure in the Los Angeles Jewish community, whose dairy restaurant The Milky Way is a popular haunt for kosher consumers, died Tuesday at the age of 97.
New Shluchim to Newfoundland
Rabbi Chanan and Tuba Chernitsky have moved to St. Johns, the capital city of Canada’s easternmost province, Newfoundland and Labrador, with their three young children to start a Chabad center.
Trucks line up in the Antopolsky driveway for a movie shoot. Inset: Dovid Antopolsky.
BDS Actor’s Film Turned to Israel’s Advantage
A Hollywood actor’s BDS activism is producing a donation to a nonprofit organization battling the boycott movement on college campuses, thanks to an Atlanta Lubavitcher on whose property the actor is filming his latest movie.
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