A Chabad Center in Tampa Bay, FL, was damaged by vandals during the annual “Gasparilla Pirate Festival” hosted by the city. The Shliach, Rabbi Lazer Rivkin, says the vandalism has “sort of become a tradition during the parade.”
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An Albanian man has been convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 8½ years in prison for the beating death of a 22-year-old Israeli man on his way to the Chabad-run Pesach Seder in Berlin last year.
This summer, the neighborhood will mark a grim anniversary: the 25th year since anti-Semitic violence and rioting swept Crown Heights in August of 1991. To mark the occasion, the Weeksville Heritage Center, a local African-American Historical and Cultural Institution, is asking those who “participated in or experienced” the 1991 riots to tell their stories.
Mark and Yaffa Sebag (Five Towns, NY)
With much pomp and joy, a newly completed Sefer Torah was introduced to the Chabad synagogue in the “Chmobniki” neighborhood of Moscow.
With Chof Beis Shvat – the day of the Rebbetzins Yohrtzeit – falling out on Monday, participants of the Kinus Hashluchos gathered at the Rebbe’s Ohel and the graveside of the Rebbetzin in Queens, praying for their families, communities and fellow Shluchos.
The drawing of the 2nd Annual Likras Shabbos Bayis Raffle was held Monday evening in New York. Over the past two months, thousands of tickets were bought in support of the extraordinary work of Machon Or Hachassidus.
Levi and Faigy (nee Gluckowsky) Tzfasman (Brooklyn, NY)
Benny and Miriam (nee Brum) Silberstein (Crown Heights)
Fitche and Feige Benshimon (Crown Heights)
Moshe and Chaya (nee Bialestock) Gitlin (Crown Heights)
Meir and Chaviva New (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yossi Jacobson will join his neighbors throughout Iowa and head out for caucus night tonight, when as every four years they will be the first in the nation to vote in the always-contentious presidential primaries.
In this latest video by Jew in the City, See what happens when actual Hasidic Jews watch scenes from “Fiddler on the Roof” for the first time. The cast includes Abe Karpen – an actor who starred alongside Natalie Portman in “New York, I Love You” – as well as Yeshaya Karp, Avremi Toron and L.A. Rosenzweig.
Rabbi Shmuel Kopel, who suffered through many years of abuse as a child in Crown Heights, has a message for Meyer Seewald, founder and director of JCW.
Everybody loves a good story. Chassidim have always had the custom to tell stories of Tzadikkim. In this lecture, Rabbi Abba Perelmuter of Long Beach, CA, eloquently describes the power of stories, why chassidim love telling stories of tzaddikim, and why people love listening to them.
Monsey Anash and guests celebrated at a Tu B’Shvat Gala Dinner 10 years of chinuch at Monsey Beis Chaya Mushka Girls High School (MBCM). Despite the outside snow, close to 300 guests came to honor the school’s founding teachers and hanhala, who have guided MBCM for 10 years.
