In 2008, Rabbi Mendel and Rachel Zarchi started planning and fundraising for a new facility to house Chabad’s activities on the island of Puerto Rico. Since then, the Puerto Rican government has slipped into a debt crisis.
Chicago supermarket chain Jewel-Osco, which features one of the largest Kosher offerings in the Midwest, held their third annual “Taste of Kosher Food Fair” this past Sunday.
A Crown Heights man who had been prohibited from reading from Judaic texts during a pre-trial hearing found another way to bring his religious beliefs into the courtroom, arriving in Brooklyn Supreme Court yesterday wearing a shirt and hat covered with religious writings.
Chabad Shluchim from across Australia gathered in Melbourne for a regional Kinus. They posed for a group portrait in front of Chabad in Melbourne Headquarters, a replica of 770.
The world’s oldest living man, Yisrael Kristal, a Holocaust survivor who lives in Haifa, Israel, is one year older on the record books today, which marked his 113th birthday on Sept. 15.
As a follow-up to yesterday’s Picture of the Day, CrownHeights.info learned that during yesterday’s afternoon recess, the seventh grade class of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. put on Tefilin with not one – but two Jewish men!
Writing for the Huffington Post, Rabbi Chaim Bruk, Shliach to the state of Montana, writes about the journey he and his wife Chavie experienced with the adoption of their daughter, Chaya.
At Beth Rivkah Academy in Montreal, one in 10 kids go to school hungry, reports Global News Canada. Two women have come together to change that.
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.
