Rabbi Dr. Israel Drazin has served for over three decades as in the US Army, ending as Assistant Chief of Chaplains of the US Army, where he held the rank of Brigadier General. He authored numerous articles and 38 books on philosophy and the Bible. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in March of 2011.
Rabbi Mendel Lifshitz started visiting Cherry Gulch, an Idaho-based therapeutic boarding school for boys, more than a decade ago. At the time, the school was looking for better ways to serve its Jewish students. The rest is history.
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 first of the series is an interview with Mrs. Michla Schanowitz of Highland Park, Illinois.
Yuda Israel (Brazil) and Gila Bardwigdor (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yirmi Cohen, along with his son Mendy, delivers a box of handmade Shmura Matzah to Mrs. Gila Martow, who is the only Jewish Conservative Parliamentarian in all of Canada.
Rabbi Gedalya and Ruthy Hertz will be moving as new shluchim to Alpharetta, Georgia, where they will join the community as assistant Rabbi and Rebbetzin, leading community outreach and women’s programming, following in the footsteps of the community’s late Rebbetzin, Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM.
In light of the Rebbe’s call to make sure that every Jew has Shmurah Matzah for the seder, every year talmidim of the Lubavitch Yeshiva of London distribute matzah to the nearby residents, a project of Kingsley Way Beis Hamedrash and the YGL Shluchim.
A Russian appeals court affirmed the expulsion order issued against an American Chabad rabbi working in Sochi, in what a local leader of the Chabad movement called a “dark day” for Jews.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Vayikra is titled: God’s Gifts.
The children of the Lubavitch Cheder in Paris were treated to a field trip today – to the city’s Matzah Bakery, where they learned all about and participated in the Matzah baking process, in what was a fascinating, hands-on learning experience.
In preparation for Pesach, over 100 shluchim worldwide are currently launching the Pesach Escape Room: The FreedoMan Files, a 45-minute fun filled “Exodus experience” specifically designed for children.
Rabbi Zvi Konikov, director of Chabad of the Space & Treasure Coasts, was invited by Rep. Randy Fine to deliver the invocation at the Florida House of Representatives in Tallahassee last week.
Zalman and Faiga (nee Kasowitz) Hackner (Kingston, PA)
Following their ultimatum to the school’s administration regarding unmet financial obligations, the teachers of Bais Rivkah’s grades 1-3 report in a follow-up open letter to the Crown Heights community that their pleas have all but been ignored, and they have no choice but to begin their strike on Friday.
This powerful photo published by Israeli news website Kikar Hashabat, which is currently going viral on social media across all walks of Jewish life, speaks for itself.
For the second time in less than a year, a federal court in Florida rejected a lawsuit against Chabad of East Boca and gave the congregation a crucial win on the road to building their new synagogue, just weeks before Pesach.
Veteran Baal Menagen Rabbi Sholom Brochstat was walking along President Street towards 770 on a recent morning, when suddenly, out of nowhere, a brand new Niggun came to his lips. He quickly entered a Shul he was passing by, opened a Tehilim to the Rebbe’s new Kapital, and asked a stranger to record him singing it.
