Noam Cahana, a sixth-grader at Rudlin Torah Academy in Richmond, Va., was very candid about the whole experience, from start to finish. “When my dad first advised it, I was saying to myself: ‘This is something only for Scouts.’ To my surprise, I really enjoyed it.” He was talking about an after-school visit to an elderly residential home as part of a new program called Senior Circle, courtesy of Friendship Circle.
Oholei Torah PTA hosted an all men’s event benefiting their annual auction this Motzai Shabbos. The crowd enjoyed an auction viewing along with a lavish buffet dinner, sushi and wine bars.
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the very untimely passing of Chani Weber OBM, the 7-year-old daughter of Pomona Shluchim Rabbi Dovid and Esty Weber.
Dovi and Yachy (nee Lefkowitz) Reich (Monsey, NY)
In honor of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding anniversary on 14 Kislev, this week’s Living Torah program is themed around marriage. In this clip, Rabbi Shmuel Lew recalls that his father-in-law, R’ Zalman Jaffe, tried every angle he could in an effort to convince the Rebbe to officiate at his daughter’s wedding, a practice that the Rebbe had ceased several years earlier.
Yoni and Ahuva (nee Greisman) Almagor (Crown Heights)
On Monday, the final day of the International Kinus Hashlucim, Vaad Rabonei Lubavitch conducted a Yom Iyun (Seminar) on the issue of Building and Maintaining a Kosher Mikvah, as per The Guidelines of the Rebbe Rashab, which ended with a tour of Crown Heights’ new women’s Mikvah – Mei Chaya Mushka.
For the second consecutive year, Rabbi Yitzchok Grossman, Chief Rabbi of Migdal HaAmek, visited the Chaya Aydel Seminary (CAS) in Hallandale Beach, Florida. Rabbi Grossman spoke to the young women about the year in Seminary, and how it will impact their lives forever.
What was Yaakov doing with the stones? Why did they become one? How do we emulate this? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei.
A seemingly unremarkable video of the Rebbe distributing dollars in 1988 has been spreading like wildfire on social media, after it was recently discovered what the Rebbe’s words – understood by no one at the time – were remarkably prophetic.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Chana (Jeanette) Muller, OBM, of London, UK, matriarch of a large family of Chabad Chassidim and Shluchim all over the world.
In the beginning of 5575 (1815), the Czar granted that the first few Jewish colonies were established in the distant Ukraine. However, besides for being allowed to live and work the land itself, they were given nothing else; no money or equipment to work with. There were no houses, no infrastructure; everything had to be built from scratch.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Miller, Author of the newly released volume The Practical Tanya, will lead a discussion on the topic – Making the Tanya Practical in the 21st Century.
JLI recently launched a new weekly video series: each week a unique one-minute video is released featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Vayeitzei is titled: The United Stones of Israel.
A fire broke out Friday morning in the basement of building which houses Oholei Torah Mesivta and forced the evacuation of the entire building, interrupting morning studies and prayers.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe encouraging the singing as he exits the shul after davening.
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