Mr. Eliezer Shefer serves as the chairman of World Organization of Orthodox Communities and Synagogues in Israel and the Diaspora. He, Shaul Shiff and Aryeh Han, were interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in March of 2010.
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Chabad of Toms River, NJ, has filed a civil rights lawsuit against the township for the town’s denial for a variance to allow the synagogue to legally operate at its current location, alleging antisemitic discrimination.
Kehot Publication Society, the Chabad-Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of a lengthy and fundamental discourse-maamar by the second leader of Chabad, Rabbi DovBer of Lubavitch, known as the “Mitteler Rebbe.” This never-before published maamar, entitled “Matzoh Zu,” was delivered 192 years ago, and was recently discovered.
53 Crown Heights seventh graders competed against each other in the ‘Chidon Halichos Olam,’ demonstrating their broad knowledge of the laws of Tefilin.
The New York City Department of Homeless Services is in the final stages of a plan to open a large homeless shelter on Crown Street between New York and Rogers Ave. in Crown Heights, just one block away from Beis Rivkah Girls’ School and P.S. 161.
Foreign journalists in Israel participated in an educational Government Press Office (GPO) tour of the Kfar Chabad Matzah Bakery ahead of the upcoming Passover holiday.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Pesach is titled: Four Children Plus One.
In an historic milestone, Vaad Hanachos B’Lahak has announced the publication of Volume 60 of the Rebbe’s voluminous collection of talks—Toras Menachem-Hisvaduyos.
It’s been nearly three years now since the 100 or so students at MaimonidesJewish Day School and The Gan–Portland Jewish Preschool in Portland, Ore., walked through the doors of their school’s new building on an extended campus, constructed to minimize the facility’s carbon footprint and reflect the state’s environmental concerns.
From the Safer Haminhagim: Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, one reads the passage that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. Yehi Ratzon in the Extended Article.
Rabbi Dovid Tiechtel of Chabad at the University of Illinois joined his brother, Rabbi Yehuda Tiechtel, Director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Berlin, in leading 18 Jewish students on a week-long display of Jewish pride in Berlin.
A stroll down Kingston Avenue in the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., reveals rows of eclectic shops, including Judaica bookstores, Chassidic art galleries and modern kosher eateries. Seemingly overlooked by time, Mermelstein Caterers—still sporting a vintage marquee from the early 1950s—sits nestled between a trendy eyeglass store and an alley.
In a new feature titled From Park Slope to Pudong, Lubavitch.com author Dvora Lakein profiled six women serving as Chabad emissaries in disparate places around the world. The third of the series is an interview with Mrs. Dvora Raichman of Manaus, Brazil.
The Great Parade has released this year’s complete promo video, featuring a carpool karaoke with some of the parade’s scheduled highlights: Benny Friedman, Chaim Fogelman and the Mitzvah Boulevard Muppets.
Rabbi Yosef Kramer, a Chabad Shliach in Little Rock, Arkansas, presents Governor Asa Hutchinson with a Tzedaka Pushka after explaining the deeper meaning of charity according to Jewish tradition.
A North Miami Beach Chabad family threw a big celebration for their daughter with special needs’ Bas Mitzvah Monday night, and the community came out in droves to celebrate.
A yellow school bus was torched late Sunday night outside a public school in Crown Heights.
