Shabbat 1000 Unites Pennsylvania Universities
One thousand students, faculty, administrators, and alumni from ten Pittsburgh-area universities celebrated Shabbat at Carnegie Mellon’s Wiegand Gymnasium last weekend.
Video: Why Isn’t There a Palestinian State?
Why don’t the Palestinians have their own country? Is it the fault of Israel? Of the Palestinians? Of both parties? David Brog, Executive Director of the Maccabee Task Force, shares the surprising answers.
New York Times Writes Jews out of Crown Heights
The New York Times has finally achieved what not even the Crown Heights riot could accomplish: eradicating all trace of Jews or Judaism from that Brooklyn neighborhood.
Video: Face Time with G-d
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha-Vayikra. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we have face time with G-d?
NYC Mayoral Candidate Visits Crown Heights
New York City mayoral hopeful Paul Massey visited Crown Heights on Monday, touring the local Matzah Bakery, walking along the neighborhood’s main shopping corridor and stopping in 770 – the Lubavitch World Headquarters.
600 Merkos Shlichus Bochurim Prepare for Pesach
What do Sofia, Bulgaria; Pucon, Chile; Reykjavik, Iceland; and Discovery Bay, Hong Kong have in in common?
New Engagement!
Avremel Minsky (Crown Heights) and Mushka Paltiel (Port Washington)
Baby Boy!
Yisroel Yosef Yitzchok and Sarale (nee Simpson) Baumgarten (Crown heights)
New Engagement!
Yisroel Dovid Lesches (Monsey, NY) and Ruthy Nacca (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Leader of German Opposition Party Tastes Matzah
Thomas Oppermann, Chairman of the Social-Democratic (SPD)-Parliamentary Group, which is the second largest political party in Germany and presently in the midst of a fiery campaign for leadership of the country versus Angela Merkel’s party, met a number of days ago in the Bundestag in Berlin with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin.
Rare Video of the Rebbe Goes Viral
As subscribers eagerly unwrapped the latest Living Torah DVD, they were struck by one of the clips scheduled to be shown next month. Garnering special attention is the Timeless Moments segment in program 660, in which the Rebbe is seen in conversation with Rabbi Binyomin Gorodetski in a newly released video.
110 Jewish Students Unite at Virginia Shabbaton
110 Jewish college students from across Virginia gathered for a one-of-a-kind Shabbat experience, hosted by the Chabad House at University of Virginia, on the weekend of March 24-26 in Charlottesville.
New Engagement!
Mendel Gordon (Melbourne, Australia) and Shternie Sirota (Denver, CO)
New Engagement!
Duni Blotner (Worcester, MA) and Chaya Gorman (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!
Mendel Steinmetz (Detroit, MI) and Ilana Gerber (Toronto, Canada)
New Engagement!
Yecheskel Posner (Skokie, IL) and Freidi Holtsberg (Monsey, NY)
Truck Plows Through Jewish Cemetery in Paris
This morning, a city-owned truck plowed into a Jewish cemetery in Paris, France, toppling numerous headstones and sending jitters through the hearts of the local Jewish community.
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