The first kosher restaurant in the city of Chernovtsy, Ukraine, opened its doors earlier this week, finally providing a place for those who keep kosher in the community to socialize and relax in a comfortable setting, all while having a tasty forshmak or other traditional and healthy treats.
For the first time ever, the Israeli government has sent an official delegation to represent the Jewish State at this year’s Cannes Film Festival in southern France. The delegation was greeted warmly by the Chabad Shluchim in Cannes, led by Rabbi M.M. Matusof.
During a court appearance earlier this week, the man arrested in connection with the stabbing of Yehuda Leib Brikman on a Crown Heights street was found unfit to stand trial due to mental illness.
A meeting between the mayor’s office and activists and leaders from both the Jewish and African-American communities met to discuss a recent spike in hate crimes against the Jewish community, and allay community fears of growing racial tension.
A matching crowd-funding campaign has been launched for the sake of the family of Rabbi Moshe Muller, OBM, Shliach to Ilford, UK, who passed away suddenly and tragically last week and left behind a wife and eight children without a clear source of income.
Close to 30 women recently joined a Challah Baking Workshop led by Mrs. Chana Burston at Chabad of Orange County in Chester, NY.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Emor. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you inspire others to overcome challenges?
The daughter of Yitzchok Rosenberg, one of the two men who tragically died yesterday on a Miami area beach, reportedly wrote the following open letter in which she relates that WhatsApp informed her of her father’s death – before it was even confirmed.
Levi and Rivky (nee Levin) Yusewitz (Postville, IA)
They meet weekly in A320, an unassuming club room at the iconic Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Students of toy design, fashion, and business, they gather each Tuesday to create something ever more eternal.
Shmuly Hertz (Edegem, Belgium) and Yehudis (bas Yisroel) Heller (Crown Heights)
A 56-year-old woman was shot on Nostrand Avenue after an argument nearby descended into violence.
Menachem Mendel Yomtov-Yan (Israel) and Chaya Malka Ben-Chayon (Crown Heights)
It’s been 55 years since Rabbi Moshe and Mindelle Feller set out to found Upper Midwest Merkos–Chabad Lubavitch in Minnesota in the winter of 1961, a mere month after their marriage. Now, for the first time in a career that has spanned 10 U.S. presidencies and countless meaningful interactions, the couple has agreed to be honored at a gala dinner of the Cheder Lubavitch Day School, which the couple founded 39 years ago in St. Paul.
A gala dinner held last night by the European ‘Chana’ Organization hosted 150 Shluchos of the Rebbe, who joined the event from all parts of the continent.
“Who am I?” was the theme of this year’s Friendship Circle’s annual volunteer appreciation event. 170 girls and their proud mothers came together at the JCM on Thursday night to salute the work and dedication of the volunteers this year.
Photographer Menachem Benhamou spent a day at the Chabad Cheder in Yerres, a suburb of Paris, France, and captured the sights and spirits through the lens of his camera.
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