Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, personal secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, OBM, recently attended the wedding of his grandson in Italy. While there, he reminisced about the first time he traveled to Italy at the behest of the Rebbe back in 1956.
Israeli newspaper Yediot Ahronot featured a profile of a Lubavitcher Chossid who made history in the Israeli Defense Forces. “Meet Segen (Lieutenant) Dr. Shmulik Soklik who is making history,” read the newspaper’s headline this morning.
Chevras Simchas Shabbos V’Yom Tov (CSSY) has announced the ten lucky winners of its grand raffle for cash prizes totalling over $60,000.
The campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-NY boarded luxurious coach buses for a comfortable ride to Six Flags-New England.
Nochum and Tzivi Schapiro (Crown Heights)
A paramedic is being hailed as a hero for coming to the aid of a 26-year-old Orthodox-Jewish woman on a respirator who was just minutes away from death after a construction crane collapsed across the Tappan Zee Bridge north of New York City, shutting down traffic in both directions.
The other day a man in Germany tried to murder people with an axe. It was almost exactly like many recent attacks in Israel. So why was it reported so differently?
Rabbi Shmuel Lezell, along with his siblings and mother, is sitting Shiva after the passing of his father, R’ Chanoch Lezell, OBM, at his home at 1365 Carroll Street [corner Kingston Ave.] Apt. #1C until Sunday morning. Shacharis – 7:30, Mincha […]
In 1969, Mr. Gordon Zacks was the chairman of United Jewish Appeal’s Young Leadership Cabinet and served on the George Bush Presidential Library Board of Trustees. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in August of 2007.
Rabbi Danny Yaffe, who serves as youth rabbi in the Great Synagogue of Sydney, shares his thoughts on the latest craze among smartphone-wielding youth – a game called Pokemon Go.
Rabbi Eli Laufer and his wife Musia (nee Marlow) will be moving on Shlichus to Dix Hills, NY, where they will be enhancing the outreach activities of The Chai Center, under the leadership of Rabbi Yakov Saacks.
Chaim and Rivky (nee Borenstein) Shabtai (Crown Heights)
Students at Ohio State University have become accustomed to seeing a rabbi push a hot-dog cart around campus; in fact, they look forward to it.
A Sicha delivered by the Rebbe exactly 31 years ago, on the 15th of Tammuz, 5745 (1985), was transcribed and translated to English for the first time. In it, the Rebbe has some sharp words for landlords who ‘extort’ large sums of money for rent from their fellow Chasidim.
The American Jewish Press Association has announced the winners in its annual Simon Rockower Awards Competition for Excellence in Jewish Journalism for work published in 2015. Chabad.org has earned three top awards, including first place to the organization as a whole for a myriad of platforms and media.
Eitan and Miriam (nee Raven) Binstock (Kingston, PA)
Acts of vandalism against a controversial eruv for the third time in the three weeks since it was erected have escalated hard feelings among observant Jews in Crown Heights and its surrounding neighborhoods.
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