“We have your son; if you ever want to see him again, send us $5,000.” This terrifying threat, amid background noise that is the sound of a child screaming and crying “help me!” is what at least two members of the Crown Heights community heard when they picked up the phone over the past couple of days.
The boys division of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, which includes boys ages nine and up, and their buddies from local Yeshivos, gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum for a very special Farbrengen in honor of Yud Shvat.
Rabbi Menachem Matusof, shliach to Calgary, Alberta, and Rabbi Sender Wilschanski, shliach to Milan, Italy, greet each other in 770 on Yud Shevat after having each won a raffle following a nine-week learning campaign by Bais Medrash L’Shluchim and the Moshiach Campaign.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is true unity?
Marking one year of MyShliach’s regional shabbatons, 18 Yaldei Hashluchim from eight cities across the Alpine countries came together for a shabbaton in Venice, Italy, hosted by Chabad of Venice and Rabbi and Mrs. Rami Banin.
Mendy (ben Noach) Fox (Crown Heights) and Hindy (bas Arki) Deitsch (Crown Heights)
Levi Druin (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas Gershon) Chaimson (Crown Heights)
Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Naftali Bennett painted a dark picture of Jewish life in Europe on Sunday, telling the cabinet anti-Semitism on the Continent has reached an “unprecedented” level.
The full moon shone over Barnacle State Park as thousands of people gathered on Sunday night for the annual Avenue J Music Festival, an event created and organized by Chabad at the Grove and Rabbi Getzy Fellig.
Just days after the record snowfall that slammed the East Coast, social media has been buzzing with pictures showing massive snowdrifts, colossal snowmen and even neighbors pitching in to dig each other’s cars out of the snow, but perhaps none is as heartwarming as a photograph taken in Borough Park, showing a group of men carrying an elderly Holocaust survivor in a wheelchair home from shul.
Shaya (ben Menachem) Moskowitz (Crown Heights) and Mushky (bas Chezzi) Posner (Crown Heights)
As a preparation for Yud Shvat, all the students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. took upon themselves Hachlotos and wrote a personal Pa”n to the Rebbe and read it at the Ohel. On the day of Yud Shvat, a special surprise awaited them at school.
A 23-year-old woman who was described by friends as “a model of compassion who only wanted the world to be a better place” succumbed to knife wounds sustained yesterday in an attack by two male Arab terrorists.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office has cleared Chabad of Tampa Bay following a Tuesday morning bomb threat.
In a fiery speech at a recent event in Lakewood, businessman and noted philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz derided a phenomenon which he called “a man-made and self-made problem” regarding education. He called out the schools and asked “do you think these children are stupid?”
The nearly 7,000 members of Chayolei Tzivos Hashem are on track to receive their annual membership trophy over the next few months. A beautiful wooden pushka bearing the words “laHashem ha’aretz u’mloah” and the child’s name on stunning golden plaques on either side, this pushka was crafted towards enabling Chayolei Tzivos Hashem members to fulfill the Rebbe’s hora’ah encouraging children to have a personal pushka attached to the wall of their Cheder Tzivos Hashem.
A panel consisting of five women – a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a professor, an activist and a Rebbetzin – speak out on the ever-changing role of women in society.
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