Mrs. Nechama Dina Hendel is a young Shlucha and mother of six living in Jerusalem Israel. She is a teacher at Mayanot Seminary, as well as co-director of Chabad of Baka. Last year she wrote the winning essay of MyLife: Essay Contest and won the $10,000. With the third season of the MyLife: Essay Contest in full swing, and the deadline for submissions just one week away, she offers words of encouragement and some tips for writing a winning essay.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Mishpatim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Humility and arrogance, are they mutually exclusive?
A man was arrested after an alert resident spotted him walking out of his neighbor’s apartment with a large bag over his shoulder.
U.S Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley, recently appointed to the post by Donald Trump, said: “I just put out to the members of the Security Council to help me understand: When we have so much going on in the world, why is it that every single month we’re going to sit down and have a hearing where all they do is obsess over Israel?”
Once again today, Monday, numerous Jewish centers in multiple states across the U.S. were evacuated due to bomb threats.
Shneur (ben Yisroel) Brod (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Devorah Leah Kantor (Bangkok, Thailand)
Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu visited Singapore’s Main Synagogue Monday, as part of a diplomatic trip to Singapore and Australia. Rabbi Mordechai Abergel, Chabad shliach and Chief Rabbi of Singapore, delivered a prayer in front of the open Torah ark.
What happens when you push away your child with your left hand and pull him close with the right hand? He turns around. Dr. David Pelcovitz, Professor of Psychology at Yeshiva University, interweaves his talk at JLI’s National Jewish Retreat with stories that bring his points firmly home.
Levi Pekar (Pittsburgh, PA) and Bassy Frankforter (Miami Beach, FL)
They hear Grad missiles when they walk to synagogue on Shabbat, at a Torah class, during a youth club meeting. At night, when they put their children to bed, tucking them in and saying everything will be alright, they hear heavy artillery then, too.
US Vice President Mike Pence visited the Dachau concentration camp memorial site on Sunday, just days after his boss took flack for a bizarre response to an Orthodox-Jewish reporter’s question about anti-Semitism in the United States.
Over 3,000 Chabad Shluchos and their guests gathered in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, for the Gala Banquet, a highlight of the 5-day International Kinus Hashluchos.
On Sunday, the 5th Day of the International Kinus Hashluchos, the Shluchos had a session with the Rabbonim on practical Halacha, followed by a general session and resource fair, before heading to the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal for the gala banquet.
Hundreds gathered on Sunday evening in 770 for a grand Farbrengen marking Chof Beis Shvat, the Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, OBM.
Chaim Hillel Markovits (Sydney, Australia) and Chayala Mentz (Bel Air, CA)
Over 3,000 Chabad Shluchos and their guests are currently gathered in the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Brooklyn, New York, for the Gala Banquet, a highlight of the 5-day International Kinus Hashluchos.
Shloimi and Sarah (nee Katz) Gross (Melbourne, Australia)
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