The goal? To make Jewish centers, organizations and places of worship more inclusive for all. The means? The Jewish Leadership Institute on Disabilities and Inclusion at Capital Retreat Center in Waynesboro, PA.
Since it’s inception in 1994, Chabad of Lithuania has endured attacks and libel by the very people now empowered with distributing Lithuanian Government restitution funds, says Shliach Rabbi Sholom Ber Krinsky.
In Honor of Hey Teives, this past Tuesday a seudas hodo’oh and farbrengen were held at the Od Yosef Chai Centre in London, attended by over 400 men, women and children. Attending the event was attorney Nathan Lewin, who told the story of Hey Teves from an insider’s perspective (full video in the extended article).
Photographer and author Bentzion Elisha captured this photo somewhere in Crown Heights of an unusual sight that caught his eye. Can you come up with a good caption for it?
Photographer’s note: This “Mezuzah” was not installed on an area that requires one.
Operation Survival will be hosting a drug awareness and prevention evening in the Oholei Torah Ballroom on Sunday evening, Jan. 8th, at 7:45pm. Men and women in the community are invited for this special event, dubbed “We Need to Talk About Prevention,” to highlight the need for prevention strategies and an increased awareness and understanding of the drug problem in Crown Heights.
Mr. Gedalya Schreiber has served as the director general of the Religious Affairs Ministry and the director general of the Chief Rabbinate in Israel. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Jerusalem, in July of 2011.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayigash. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why are Jews unconditionally kind?
Yehuda and Chaya (nee Katzoff) Rosenberger (Houston, TX)
On Hey Teves the new executive offices of Kehot Publication Society were inaugurated, with a group of Kehot and Merkos representatives on hand. Rabbi Dovid Fischer was honor with affixing the Mezuzah on the front door.
New York City recorded its fewest number of shootings in 2016 and narrowly missed setting a new record low for homicides since comparable record keeping began more than two decades ago, the NYPD has reported.
Cheder at the Ohel students from pre-1A through 7th grade were privileged to have Rabbi Bentzion Stein from Detroit come to speak to them about the history and significance of Hey Teves, emphasizing why it is so important to us today.
At around 2:30pm this afternoon, an emotionally disturbed man walked into 770 with a plastic knife in his hand, and began to act rowdy and belligerently towards other worshipers.
Henoch and Chayale (nee Goldstein) Junik (Crown Heights)
Two bomb threats have been called into Jewish centers in Central Florida: One of the threats was called into Chabad of South Orlando, and the other to the Jewish Community Center of Greater Orlando.
Dovid and Mushkie (nee Wolff) Efune (Manhattan, NY)
Celebrating the 30th anniversary of Hey Teves, this year’s Oholei Torah PTA Annual Didan Notzach Book Fair event was taken to the next level. Permeating the event with a real feeling for the significance of this important day, and over 1200 children benefited from the exciting event.
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