Once Again: The parents of students in Beth Rivkah elementary school today received an email from the principals notifying them that second term report cards will not be distributed since the teachers have not been paid in over a month.
Temimim in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Antwerp, Belgium, held an uplifting farbrengen marking the Yahrtzeit of noted Mashpia Rabbi Moshe Weber, OBM.
An African-American teenager posing as a customer ordered food from a Crown Heights restaurant. When the delivery man arrived at the address given, he handed over the food and asked for payment. Instead of receiving money, he was brutally beaten and robbed. Part of the attack was caught on surveillance video.
Jewish music star Simche Friedman sings two classic Chabad Nigunim to Mizrachi-style music by the Yuval Stofel Orchestra.
Rubie and Rivkie Minkowitz (Valley Village, CA)
Shalom Dalfin (Crown Heights) and Chaya Levine (Agoura Hills, Ca)
The New York Post today profiled two Orthodox-Jewish sisters living in Crown Heights who want to break the stigma associated with dressing modestly.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Hilda Witkes, OBM, of Worcester, Massachusetts, a beloved member of the Lubavitch community in Worcester for over half a century, and matriarch of a large family of Chabad Chassidim and Shluchim all over the world. She was 98 years old.
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Gluckowsky is the Assistant Director of the Chabad Rabbinate in Israel and the director of the Chabad Rabbinate in Rechovot, where he has served as the Rebbe’s emissary for nearly 40 years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in October of 2016.
Purim in Kharkov was celebrated around the clock, starting with an early morning performance at the Kharkov Circus with over 2,000 people in attendance.
Purim was celebrated “Shtetl” style at Chabad of Orange County’s Gala community, hosted by Shluchim Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston.
The kindness of a Chabad Rabbi from London, stranded in rural Newfoundland, Canada, when his plane was grounded on 9/11, are at the heart of a new Broadway play titled ‘Come From Away.’
Team Israel ended its underdog run at the World Baseball Classic after losing 8-3 to Japan’s national team in Tokyo last night.
Dovid Fainzilber (San Jose, Costa Rica) and Shlomit Libersohn (Mexico City, Mexico)
A man was attacked and stabbed multiple times in a “special needs housing space” in the basement of a Lefferts Avenue home in Crown Heights. The incident arose from a dispute between two roommates, say witnesses.
Sometimes we know people who seem to be like a living example of a sefer. Yosef Chaim Paley, OBM, was a walking sefer on Ahavas Yisroel. He had a smile that would like up a room and a gentle, friendly personality that made him so pleasant to be around. Yossi was the child who loved everyone and whom everyone loved back. He was the kid who went over to the new child with a smile to make them feel welcome. Yossi always made sure that no one was excluded at recess.
