During a recent visit to Israel, Florida Lieutenant Governor Carlos Lopez-Cantera, long ambiguous about his religion, celebrated his Bar Mitzvah at the age of 42. The celebration took place at the Western Wall with a Chabad Rabbi.
Usually, primary races are pretty much over by the time the New York primary comes around. This time, it’s different, and that’s why New York has seen an unusual amount of campaigning this election year.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Moshe Naparstek, OBM, Mashpia in the central Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kfar Chabad, Israel. He was 81 years old.
As part of the #HappyBirthdayRebbe campaign, Los Angeles writer and educator Rabbi Sholom Kesselman tweeted ten things the Rebbe taught him.
Shimey Wilhelm (Portland, OR) and Etty Junik (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the holiday of Passover. Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why does Passover have three names: Chag Hamatzos, Zman Cheirusainu, Chag HaPesach?
Four Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal last week in honor of the Rebbe’s 114th birthday. A team effort of locals, Bochurim and Anash together created the first Yud Alef Nissan Tank Parade in Montreal.
Yossi and Chanie (nee Scheinfeld) Goorevitch (Crown Heights)
Nossen and Chayale Fellig (Durham, NC)
An elderly and disabled woman was killed when a fast moving fire tore through her home on Fenimore Street.
The central Yud Alef Nissan Farbrengen, marking the Rebbes 114th birthday, was held Monday night in the ballroom of Beis Rivkah on Lefferts Avenue with the attendance of Anash and Bochrim.
After an historic performance in Odessa, Ukraine, Avraham Fried toured the Mishpacha Orphanage under the auspices of Chabad Lubavitch of Odessa. The concert was beautiful, but the tour was powerful.
Two Lubavitcher Bochrim have combined over 1,500 of their own Mivtzoim encounters into an amazing collage depicting a portrait of the Rebbe.
In a unique scene captured on surveillance video, an Orthodox-Jewish man collided with a non-Jewish bike rider while attempting to cross Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights. Their reaction will surprise you.
The winners of this year’s MyLife: Essay Contest were announced live during Sunday night’s special Yud Alef Nissan Edition of the MyLife: Chassidus Applied Webcast.
“There is no doubt that this was a terror attack,” Jerusalem police commissioner Yoram Halevy said in regards to a bus that exploded today, Monday, in Jerusalem.
Please take a moment and say a kapital Tehillim for Shmuel Menachem Mendel ben Shulamis, who is in need of a speedy and complete recovery.
