Inspired by the 75 year anniversary of Bais Rivkah Schools, the high school students got thinking. How did their school receive it’s name? Who is Rebbetzin Rivkah? Why did the Frierdiker Rebbe deem it so important to name his ground-breaking school for women after his grandmother?
This Shabbos at the Besht, renowned Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic of Chodesh Nissan.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Reuvein Rapoport, OBM, a devout Chosid and the patriarch of a large family of Chassidim and Shluchim all over the world. He was 87 years old.
Levi and Rivkah Piekarski (Crown Heights)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during Kos Shel Bracha, circa early 1980s.
Yoel and Mussy (nee Perlstein) Chazan (Crown Heights)
This week, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the important role Jewish women played in our redemption from Egypt and subsequent receiving of the Torah on Mount Sinai, in addition to the women’s initiative in their contributions for the mishkan and refusal to participate in the golden calf. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
While Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a two-state solution “as soon as possible” during his meeting in Beijing this week with visiting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Middle East peacemaking is not a priority for the Asian power, the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner said in an interview with i24 News on Tuesday.
The Republican-led Senate has confirmed President Donald Trump’s pick to be U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman.
Chabad.org Luach is a weekly publication of halachos and Chabad minhagim, which was launched ahead of Rosh Chodesh Nissan.
The body of a dead woman was found wrapped in a blanket on the sidewalk of Union Street near Troy Avenue in Crown Heights. The woman appears to have been murdered, and police say a person of interest is in custody.
As Belgian royals, families of victims marked Wednesday the first anniversary of the Brussels terror attacks which killed 32 people and wounded hundreds at the airport and at a metro station, a remembrance event was held at the European Jewish Building in the heart of the EU institutions.
Kushi and Fraida Malka (new Yarmush) Schusterman (Bel Air, MD)
Israeli police today arrested a 19-year-old Israeli man as the primary suspect in a string of bomb threats targeting Jewish community centers and other institutions in the U.S.
Shlomo Leib and Gila Goldman (Crown Heights)
Mr. Naftali (Tuli) Deutsch, a real estate developer and philantropist, is the author of A Holocaust Survivor in the Footsteps of His Past. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Los Angeles in September of 2011.
Meir and Chaviva (nee Katz) New (Crown Heights)
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