‘Discover’ is a short film by Avraham Edry which illustrates what Darchei Menachem does for each and every student in its care. The video was released in anticipation of a 24-hour fundraising campaign for the beloved Crown Heights institution.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Chaim Eilenberg (Crown Heights) and Rivki Chayempour (Great Neck, NY), which took place Monday night at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights.
An early talk from the Rebbe, delivered at the aufruf kiddush of Mr. Chaim Chanowitz, which took place in 770 on Shabbos parshas Chukas in 1950, was recently discovered with edits of the Rebbe by Lubavitch Archives. The talk was previously published unedited, and is one of a few edited talks by the Rebbe discovered after 3 Tamuz, 1994.
For the first time ever, giant of Jewish music Avraham Fried will be performing in three Hakhel concerts in Ukraine, uniting thousands of Jews all over the country.
In a large tent set up under the New York sky on Crown Heights’ Kingston Ave., dozens of officials, community leaders, politicians, activists and friends gathered Monday evening to support the Jewish Children’s Museum at its annual gala dinner. Highlighting the event was former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Seven people whose lives have been changed by Chabad told their stories to the 550 guests at the Chabad UK dinner in central London, which is estimated to have raised close to a million dollars for the organization.
Reb Bentche Shemtov, OBM, poses for a group portrait with a class of the Lubavitch Cheder of London in the early 1950s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
What was most noticeable at last week’s baseball game between the “Cubs” and the “White Sox” at Jerusalem’s Kraft Stadium were the smiles and laughter as players stepped up to the plate and then rounded the bases in an inaugural game for children with special needs, sponsored by the Friendship Circle of Central Jerusalem.
On Sunday, 24 Adar II, Yeshiva Torah Ohr of North Miami Beach held a Hachnasas Sefer Torah. The Torah was one of six Torahs that Leonardo Farkas of Chile donated this year’s Kinus Hashluchim, in which a new Torah was sent to six continents.
Over one hundred people braved the rain and cold weather to pay their last respects to Mrs. Riva Minkowitz, OBM, of Crown Heights, who passed away yesterday at the age of 92.
After months of anticipation and preparation, the third annual Jewish heritage ‘Olympics’ quiz for students of Chabad schools across the former Soviet Union has reached its third and final stage.
Mayer (ben R’ Noach) Kosofsky (Longmeadow, MA) and Mushkie Notik (Riverwoods, IL)
Three industrial kosher kitchens were completely destroyed in a five-alarm fire that swept through a warehouse for hours near Kings County Hospital south of Crown Heights.
Benny Druin (North Miami Beach, FL) and Tehila Bracha Hecht (Crown Heights)
Chabad of Penn State University, under the leadership of Rabbi Nosson and Sarah Meretsky, hosted a Challah bake for the campus’ Jewish community.
1,500 students in Beis Rivkah-Campus Chomesh gathered together for a Hakhel event for all grades in the school’s elementary division, a first-of-its-kind event for the school. The gathering marked the Rebbezin’s birthday, and the anniversary of laying the cornerstone for the Campus Chomesh building.
A delegation on behalf of the Israeli Knesset visited the country of Armenia this weekend, headed by MK David Bitan (Likud). While there, the group visited the Chabad Center in Yerevan, the former Soviet republic’s capital city, where they were welcomed by local Shliach Rabbi Gershon Meir Burshtein.
