Rabbi Shlomo Kugel, together with his wife Rivka, is the director of Chabad of the West Side, Manhattan, where he has served for nearly 35 years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in April of 2016.
Soon after the Havdalah flames are doused on Saturday night, March 11, rabbis and rabbinical students will be starting their engines and embarking on a Purim adventure across the state of New York: bringing cheer to their brethren behind the walls of more than 40 correctional facilities.
Devora Leah Sternbach (Crown Heights) and Moshie Sabbach (Melbourne, Australia)
The Friendship Circle’s 6th annual Great Bike Giveaway is helping families raise money for adaptive bikes for their special needs kids. These bikes are expensive and can range anywhere from $1,000 to $6,000, reports Colorado Springs’ Channel 5 News.
The first confirmed case in 2017 of neo-natal herpes that is directly linked to metzitzah b’peh has been confirmed by the New York City Department of Health, prompting the city to send out an alert warning medical personnel to be on the alert for additional cases.
Brian Weinberger, an attorney, had been addicted to alcohol and pills for more than a decade until his wife learned of his problem. “The things that I had been hiding came out, and that caused a tremendous upheaval in my family and personally,” said Weinberger, 55, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., and has five children.
Shmuel Leiter (Crown Heights/Efrat, Israel) and Chani Rabinowitz (Jerusalem, Israel)
Rabbi Dovid and Goldie Tiechtel of Illini Chabad Center, which serves students at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, recently worked with businessman Eric Schames and his wife Debbie to open a hospitality house dedicated to providing students and their families with resources they would expect to find at home.
Bomb threats have been emailed to at least four Jewish community centers across the U.S. today, Wednesday, following a wave of threats that targeted 16 Jewish institutions yesterday, Tuesday.
Akiva and Rivky (nee Feldman) Nussbaum (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Parshas Zachor, Taanis Esther and Purim for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Over 5,000 people joyously paraded down the streets of Kiryat Gat, Israel, with a new Torah scroll that was donated by the Vazna Family to the local Chabad Mesivta, under the leadership of the city’s Chief Rabbi, Moshe Havlin.
Opposition Leader and head of the Zionist Union party, Mr. Isaac (Bougie) Herzog, was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Parliament to visit Moscow. During his visit he toured the Jewish Museum, the Jewish Chesed Center and other Jewish institutions. He was greeted by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berl Lazar, who stands at their helm.
Rabbi Asher Federman, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, begins his daily routine of mustering up men well before the start of morning minyan at 7:30 a.m.
Courtesy of Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author of the Who Is Who in Lubavitch series, we present a unique photo of a legendary Chabad Chossid whose Yahrtzeit will be marked this Shabbos. Can you identify who it is, and what he is doing in the photo?
In honor of Purim, Brazilian Jewish music star Micha Gamerman released the first single off his upcoming album, Moadei Yisrael Im Micha Gamerman, a joyous Purim medley set to captivating animation.
