A famed Israeli cantor, Dudu Fisher played the role of Jean Valjean in the musical Les Miserables in Tel Aviv, in New York and in London, where he performed for Queen Elizabeth. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in July of 2015.
Shmuel and Shaina Basha (nee Brook) Lesches (Melbourne, Australia)
Over 2,000 participants from around the world united in Brooklyn for a weekend of inspiration at the largest and most impressive CTeen International Shabbaton to date.
Levi and Musie (nee Silver) Galperin (Crown Heights)
As a direct result of terror attacks in Israel that began in full force following the High Holidays, two 11-year-olds in Florida hope to make a small but significant difference in the weeks before Purim. And they plan to do so in a hands-on and rather creative way: by baking hamantaschen.
A reader sent us this photo taken in the 1930s, which depicts the scene on an unpaved Crown Heights street. Can you identify the location of the photo?
University of Missouri-Columbia police are investigating a case of anti-Semitic vandalism after someone wrote “Hitler Rules” on a notification board inside Gateway Hall sometime Monday night or Tuesday morning. Shliach on campus Rabbi Avraham Lapine says the repeated incidents are concerning.
Rabbi Chaim Hillel Shaish, along with his wife, will be joining the family of Chabad Shluchim in Paris, France, where he will serve in the neighborhood of St. Maur in the Chabad House led by Rabbi Hershy Drukman.
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.”
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