President Donald Trump signed an executive order today, Thursday, making it easier for religious organizations such as synagogues and churches to actively participate in politics without risking their tax-exempt status, and to protect faith-based groups from being forced to pay for abortion services under Obamacare.
President Donald Trump announced today, Thursday, that he will travel to Israel this month as part of his first foreign trip. Other counties on the itinerary include Saudi Arabia, Belgium, Italy and The Vatican.
An electrifying Kinus Celebration marked the 62st anniversary of the founding of “Tzach,” Tzeirei Agudas Chabad Hamerkozis, also known as the Lubavitch Youth Organization, by the Rebbe in 1955.
Between sales tax, property tax and rent, New York City is already one of the nation’s most expensive, yet new data reveals that the city collected nearly a billion dollars in fines and violations, a 3.7% increase from last year and a 16% jump from 2012.
Oholei Torah’s Board of Directors have announced that a new division of the Beis Medrash will be opening for the upcoming year. The focus is to better accommodate and give personalized attention to the younger talmidim of Shiur alef and beis.
Mrs. Rochel Leah Presman, a mother of eight, gives Torah classes in Russian and is a teacher at Ulpan Morasha in Jerusalem, where she was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in February of 2017.
Parade organizers met with Crown Heights school principals and the Released Time bochurim this week, discussing plans to ensure this year’s Parade is a resounding success.
Saadya and Chaya Sara (nee Nathanson) Kaufmann (Houston, TX)
Since Donald Trump entered the White House in January, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has been facing more US pressure than ever before, the editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner said in an interview with i24 News on Tuesday.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present this photo of students marching with signs at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1980 in Montreal, Canada. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
With the political unrest and anti-Semitic atmosphere in France, it’s understandable that many French Jews have been leaving the country in growing numbers in the past few years to make aliyah.
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging platform, is currently experiencing an outage, affecting its over one billion users around the globe.
In this rare video a Muslim Israeli woman, talking to her brothers in Arabic, praises and defends the state of Israel on its 69th birthday.
Pinchas and Channy, a newlywed Frum couple who were arrested and jailed in Ukraine after officials found drugs in their baggage – which they claim were planted by people unhappy about their marriage – were freed and are safe in Israel after much diligent work by Jewish activists and local Chabad Shluchim.
Pakistan has extended the house arrest of Hafiz Saeed – an Islamist cleric accused by the US of having masterminded the 2008 terrorist attacks in the Indian port city of Mumbai – by another three months, Pakistani media outlets reported on Tuesday.
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, whose district includes parts of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View,’ which he co-hosts with Marc Gronich.
After eight years as nomads, Chabad of Frederick, Maryland, led by Rabbi Boruch Labkowski, will have a worship space of their own after purchasing the site of a former church.
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