A drive-by shooting left one man dead and two others wounded in Crown Heights. The incident occurred at around 10:30pm Thursday night on Saint Marks Avenue near New York Avenue, about six short blocks away from Monday’s West Indian/Labor Day parade route.
As Bais Chaya Mushka and Bais Rebbe of Los Angeles prepare to welcome back their students, BCM held an all-staff in-service day to get everyone back into the spirit of learning and growth for the new school year. In this same spirit, teachers and staff from Cheder Menachem and other local schools were invited to attend as well.
Mendy Wilmowsky (Crown Heights) and Chanchie Krinsky (Morristown, NJ)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe waiting as a small child kisses the Torah.
As we approach the beginning of the month of Elul, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he underlines the significance of managing a Jewish home with its many benevolent acts, however insignificant they may seem, and especially in this month of special Divine grace and favor. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
The Banquet. It is always a momentous occasion that evokes many feelings. It happens every year at the end of the Global Kinus Hashluchim. But the one that took place a few days ago at the end of the historical Kinus attended by 500 Shluchim from Europe was something special.
On Sunday August 21st the Congress of Shluchim and Lay leader partners of Chabad Argentina was held in the city of Tucuman. To honor the Bicentennial of the Argentine Independence and the Jewish year of Hakhel, a year of gathering for the Jewish people, more than 70 Rabbis representing 40 national institutions of Chabad Lubavitch along with their partners took part in this congress.
In the aftermath of the tragic loss of 13-year-old Avrohom Chaim Feldman, OBM, friends of the family and fellow Mispallelim at Empire Shteibel have set up a funding campaign to help ease the financial burden of the Levaya and burial, as well as other expenses.
These days there are many artists and art-lovers flocking to the exhibition center of Moscow’s municipality to view the paintings of Rabbi Ovadya Isakov, Chabad Shliach and Rabbi of Derbent, capital of Russia’s Dagestan region.
Hundreds gathered in front of 770 to partake in the Levaya of HaBochur Avrohom Chaim Feldman OBM, the young 13-year-old who suddenly passed away.
For many young Jewish families in Brooklyn Heights—a neighborhood directly across the East River from Lower Manhattan—Kiddie Korner is the “go to” preschool in the area. The Chabad-run school is so popular that for some time now, there has been a waiting list to get in.
An IDF soldier was shot and moderately wounded while guarding a large group of Orthodox Jews who arrived on a caravan of 16 buses to visit Joseph’s Tomb in the northern West Bank city of Shchem (Nablus) early Thursday morning.
Join Radio host, MC and music maven Yossi Zweig as he drives around with superstar Shlomo Simcha, who just released his new album “Ani Kan,” the first in almost 9 years. Find out how Shlomo got his first big break, some home remedies he uses to keep his voice in shape, and of course some singing.
With great shock, sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Habochur Hatomim Avrohom Chaim Feldman, OBM, a young student in Oholei Torah. He was 13 years old.
Rabbi Nachum Zevin serves as the Chief Rabbi of Kiryat Eliyahu near Haifa. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in June of 2014.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
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