Over 550 Shluchim from across the globe gathered at the opulent Grand Prospect Hall in Park Slope for JLI’s annual Adult Education Conference and Expo. Participants enjoyed a day of professional training, idea-sharing, best practices, and brainstorming new ways of expanding all forms of Mivtzah Torah in their hometown communities for the upcoming academic year.
With the conclusion of the Mezuza Bank Project, during which thousands of mezuzas were put up in Jewish homes across Russia, this week a new initiative was announced by Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar: a Tefilin Bank.
An unidentified man was caught on camera carving dozens of swastikas into a sidewalk in Flatbush, just steps from several major Jewish institutions on Ocean Parkway, including the East Midwood Jewish Center, the Ocean Parkway Jewish Center and the Chabad Lubavitch of Kensington.
One of the tragedies that is commemorated on the fast of 17 Tammuz is the breaking of the luchos by Moshe. In this short video, My Judaism makes one of the most fundamental lessons chassidus teaches about the luchos clear for people from all walks of life.
We present a collection of stories renowned author Bentzion Elisha recently heard by a Farbrengen with Rabbi Nachman Twersky, which he wrote up with the intention of sharing them with the community.
More than 300 people gathered in Los Angeles, CA, to watch a live interview of Rabbi Ezra Schochet, popularly known as “The Rosh,” and Mr. Tulli Deutsch, a renowned philanthropist, conducted by JEM’s My Encounter project.
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Pinchas is titled: A Full Moon.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Yisroel-Montreal were visited by their families, relatives and friends, many of whom made the seven-hour-long trek up from New York for the day.
If you ask college students around the world what attracted them to their Chabad on Campus center, many will point to the warm family atmosphere. It is only natural therefore, that the annual Chabad on Campus International Kinus is very much a family affair, with accommodations and activities for the entire family and separate programs for Shluchim, Shluchos, and children of all ages.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Pinchas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should one judge others?
Mrs. Arna Lipkind will be sitting shiva after the passing of her dear father, OBM, at 1703 President St. (between Utica and Rochester Aves., top floor) from Thursday until Sunday morning. Shiva times: 12 PM-5 PM, 7 PM-9:30 PM. Hamokom Yenachem […]
The former Prime Minister of Australia, Tony Abbott, headlined a gala dinner benefiting Chabad of the North Shore in Sydney, at which over $200,000 (AUD) was raised.
Controversy has erupted after it was leaked today that the Chief Rabbinate of Israel had compiled a blacklist of some 160 rabbis from around the world, including many Orthodox rabbis and three Chabad rabbis, whose authority to approve Jewish and marital status it rejects.
When Chabad on Campus International teamed up with Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi) International to launch a Bar Mitzvah program, it’s unlikely they would have expected Vienna to be the location for the first graduating group of Bar Mitzvah students.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Yisroel-Florida were visited by their parents, siblings and friends, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
This morning, the large safe serving as the Aron Kodesh of the Belzer Shteibel in Boro Park fell on top of the Shul’s Gabbai, trapping him inside. Firefighters worked feverishly to extract him, and miraculously, he emerged without a scratch.
Menachem Schonbuch (Crown Heights) and Malky Feigenson (Crown Heights)
