Clad in a black yarmulke, President Donald Trump made a historic visit to Jerusalem’s Western Wall today, Monday, standing before the holiest place where Jews are permitted to pray and saying a few words before inserting a note between the monumental stones. He is the first sitting U.S. President to do so in history.
Congregants of the old Chabad shul in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, were amazed to discover on Shabbos that vandals had broken in the night before and destroyed the synagogue’s walls, stole books and newsletters, and harmed anything they could get their hands on.
Hebrew School students of Chabad Hebrew School of Westchester, located in New Rochelle, NY, enjoyed an exciting surprise as Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino attended the celebration.
Moshe Aron (ben R’ Shmuel) Lipskier (Crown Heights) and Shevi Serabransky (Melbourne, Australia)
Mendy Levitin (Lod, Israel) and Nechama Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
Moshe Vail (Crown Heights) and Shaina (bas Yitzchok) Tenenbaum (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 163, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: To Give or Not to Give When the Money May be Used for Something Inappropriate? Should School Feel Like Prison? How Do We Protect the Innocent from False Allegations of a Vindictive Spouse?
A man charged with slamming his speeding car into pedestrians in Times Square, killing a teenager and injuring nearly two dozen people, said he wanted to “kill them all” and police should have shot him to stop him, a prosecutor revealed Friday.
For the second time this year, Russian authorities have ordered out of the country a foreign-born Chabad rabbi who had lived there for years.
Mendy Drelich (Edmonton, Canada) and Shoshana Goldshmidt (Miami, FL)
In the leadup to Shavuos each year, the Rebbe would address the annual Nshei Chabad Women’s Convention. Here, JEM presents a collection of videos in which the Rebbe discusses the unique and vital contribution of the Jewish woman.
A Jewish hipster haven in the heart of Chabad’s Brooklyn territory: Known as Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters since the 1940s, Crown Heights is becoming home to a new kind of Jew – the “hipster,” reports Ben Sales for the JTA. Is this a positive or negative development? Share your opinion in the comments section.
Isolated in an assisted living facility in Peru, Illinois, 100 miles from Chicago, Selma Rosenberg longed for a visit from a rabbi. On the day before her death, she finally got her wish.
Livid with anger, the poritz began berating the innkeeper; “Twenty years ago, I rented you this inn and it was in perfect condition, and now look at what you did to it. You neglected it and it is now worthless, you will pay dearly for this!”
Chabad of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), has announced that it is expanding into a new additional building, which it will use to extend its communal, educational and humanitarian activities.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Behar-Bechukosai is titled: Duty with Purpose.
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