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.
Mendel (Benams) Benhamou (Lyon, France) and Tsivia Elfassy (Paris, France)
Meir and Mushky (nee Borisute) Blizinsky (Crown Heights)
As predictions of the mammoth snowstorm that dumped more than two feet of snow on New York City over the weekend gusted through the news earlier in the week, Sandra Justin brought her three children—Ethan, 9; Zoe, 12; and Talia, 14—to help pack boxes kosher food staples for those in need.
In honor of Tu B’Shvat, we present a letter from the Rebbe in 1944, when he served as Chairman of the Executive Committee of Merkos, written to a well-known supporter of the Frierdker Rebbe and Chabad in the early years in America.
The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has issued an advisory to members of the community that the NYC Dept. of Sanitation has suspended the collection of garbage while they focus on clearing the snow. Additionally, when resumed, garbage collection will not take place in alleyways until the snow melts, and all garbage must be placed on the sidewalk at the proper times.
Lemon Place, a small Crown Heights-based graphic design company, took it upon themselves to make an open-source Chabad logo that any Shliach can use free-of-charge, in the hopes of uniting Chabad houses across the globe with uniform branding.
Due to popular demand after last year’s success, the Chof Beis Shvat Pop Up Mall is returning to Crown Heights on January 31. In honor of the visiting shluchos, Lullaby Baby, the Park Slope boutique store, is coordinating the event and will be joined by several local vendors including Teela, Salon MB, Ruti Horn and iKippah.
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