Dr. Mordechai Shani served as the director of the Sheba Medical Center for 33 years. He received the Israel Prize in 2009. Presently he is Professor of Healthcare Systems at Tel Aviv University. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Tel Hashomer Hospital in March of 2013.
Some 800 homes in Crown Heights are without power following two underground fires on Wednesday afternoon.
Pulling off a kosher Jewish wedding in the heart of South Korea may seem like a logistical nightmare. But Rabbi Osher Litzman, who directs the Chabad Jewish Community of Korea in Seoul with his wife, Mussy Litzman, jokes that “there are no logistical challenges here.”
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Mordechai Sufrin, OBM, a noted educator and renowned lecturer for over fifty years in London, UK. He was 79 years old.
After three suspects were arrested for breaking into and ransacking the home of Kiryat Gat Chief Rabbi Moshe Havlin last week, several demonstrators returned on Monday night to protest against the rav again.
The Lubavitch community of greater Paris gathered together in Sarchelles to mourn the loss of one of their own, beloved husband, father, teacher and Ba’al Chessed Rabbi Amram Yosef Fraenkel, OBM, who passed away yesterday evening after succumbing to a prolonged and difficult illness.
On Sunday, Ches Elul (Sept 11), the Lubavitch community of Manchester, UK, celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah in honor of Rabbi and Rebbetzin Avrohom Jaffe. Rabbi Jaffe serves as Head of Lubavitch Manchester and Rov of the Kahal Chassidim Lubavitch shul for the past 52 years.
With boys and young men already in yeshiva for Elul zman, the hum of Torah is emanating from study halls around the world. This year in the Chabad yeshiva system, they are studying the masechta (tractate) of Kesubos.
In the midst of playing football during recess, the seventh grade class of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. met passing Jew and convinced him to put on Tefilin right there on the sidewalk.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of R’ Amram Yoseph Fraenkel, OBM, of Sarcelles, France, a beloved teacher who had a generous heart.
On Sept. 12, 2016, Chaya Zippel and Rabbi Mendy Cohen were married in a traditional Jewish ceremony at Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel. The Salt Lake Tribune was on hand to capture a scene that many Utahns rarely get to see.
John Hinckley, 61, who shot President Ronald Reagan in 1981, was released Saturday from a psychiatric hospital in Washington, D.C.
Samuel Herman Reshevsky (1911-1992) won the U.S. Chess Championship seven times, and at one point he put together an incredible streak, between 1936 and 1942, of 75 games without a loss in U.S. Championship competition. He scored spectacular victories in international tournaments, defeating seven world champions including Bobby Fischer (Fischer’s only loss in tournament competition). He was also a close acquaintance of the previous and current Lubavitcher Rebbes, reveals The Jewish Press.
Beth Rivkah administration have announced that a strike by its teachers has been resolved and the first school day – some ten days late – will be this Thursday for High School and Wednesday for Elementary. Full schedule inside.
JEM has released an historic photo book entitled “Tishrei in Lubavitch.” The coffee-table style album takes the reader on a journey through a Tishrei with the Rebbe with more than 200 photos, insightful captions and commentaries.
Ever since they moved to Vernon Hills nearly seven years ago, Rabbi Shimmy and Rochel Susskind have been renting spaces for the community programs and services they’ve organized. Hebrew school, synagogue services, adult classes and more were conducted in a nearby Montessori school, the Doubletree Hotel, and in the Susskind living room.
Rabbi Meir Rapoport and his wife Shaina are opening a Chabad Jewish Center in Galloway, NJ, to serve the Jewish student community at Stockton University. As part of their new roles as directors of the Jewish center, they will host religious services, educational programs, social programs, Sabbath and holiday meals, and more.
