This afternoon, the students of Beis Rivkah’s Elementary and Head-start divisions were sent home early, while the staff-members stayed behind for a three-hour training seminar on the proper way to prepare for and respond to an active shooter situation.
Boruch and Chaya (nee Rosenfeld) Zaetz (Crown Heights
On Motzoei Shabbos, the students of Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s grades 3-5 gathered with their fathers and grandfathers for the annual Father & Son Melava Malka.
As we approach the Shloshim since the passing of Rabbi Yehoshua Gordon, OBM, Head Shliach of California’s San Fernando Valley, Lubavitch Archives presents a look through his life through the prism of photos.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayakhel. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What should one do if he/she has a special talent?
Israeli music star Itzik Eshel sings a medley of Chabad Niggunim at a recent wedding.
Rabbi Baruch Myers is the Chabad emissary to Slovakia, as well as a talented pianist. At a recent live music event, he joined three non-Jewish musicians and together they performed stirring Chabad Niggunim to the (mostly non-Jewish) crowd’s delight.
Paltiel “Paul” Ratzenberg studied communications at University of Cincinnati and is currently enrolled in Mayanot Institute in Jerusalem. Yesterday, he took to the pages of Buzzfeed to give a list of “10 campus rabbis who are even more legendary than their impressive facial hair.”
This past Motzei Shabbos, Friendship Circle of Brooklyn families joined together for an evening of unity. A crowd of over 100 people spilled into the Friendship Circle’s ‘Living room’ for a unique Hakhel event. “It was a true celebration of community,” says director Mrs. Chani Majesky.
The NYPD’s Crime Stoppers program has upped the reward for information leading to the arrest of the man responsible for stabbing Leiby Brikman on the streets of Crown Heights three weeks ago to $12,500.
Mendel Katz (Los Angeles, CA) and Mushkie Lewin (Sandton, South Africa)
Rabbi Shmully Hecht, founder of the Shabtai Society at Yale University, has joined the presidential campaign of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
Last night, the IDF launched a dramatic rescue operation to extract two soldiers who accidentally strayed into a Palestinian neighborhood in north Jerusalem, and found themselves in the midst of a massive riot. Five soldiers were injured amid the rescue operation.
Zeesy Bruk, the five-year-old daughter of the Shluchim to the state of Montana Rabbi Chaim and Chavie Bruk, has been named ‘Montana’s 2016 Champion Child’ by the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, due to her courageous battle with GLUT-1 Deficiency, a rare genetic metabolic disorder.
A peek at the headlines invariably leads to that hardest of questions: If G-d is just, why do bad things happen to good people? Rabbi Manis Friedman offers surprising insights, perspectives, and paradigm changers in this video produced by Torah Cafe.
Noted Professor Dr. Tali Loewenthal of University College-London was spotted discussing concepts in Chassidus with a Yeshiva Bochur at a wedding in London.
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