On a brisk evening last week, when Purim was more on people’s radar than Pesach, several hundred bochurim gathered at Chabad HQ. The night’s agenda: assessing their knowledge and preparedness in leading public Seders — and being the de facto Chabad presence in outposts across the globe.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Parshas Zachor, Taanis Esther and Purim for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
We present a video of the Rebbe reading the Haftarah during Mincha on Taanis Esther, 5748 (1988), courtesy of JEM.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Thursday, March 24, for Purim, and on Friday, March 25, for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Congregation Agudas Yisroel invites all members of the community to hear the reading of the Megilliah this Purim, every hour on the hour. Additional readings for women will occur in 770, and volunteers will visit the homes of those who cannot make it to Shul to read Megillah for them.
A Flatbush Hatzalah volunteer implores members of the community to finally allow him to celebrate Purim with his family, instead of having to rush around providing first aid and transport to individuals who consumed an irresponsible amount of alcohol.
Shmulik and Chaya (nee Levin) Gurary (Baltimore, MD)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tzav. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we make sure that our Torah Study will last?
A student at a Crown Heights public middle school was arrested Tuesday when administrators found a loaded gun in his backpack.
The Chabad Hebrew Academy of San Diego, CA, led by Rabbi Yosef Fradkin, recently switched over to solar energy for all their electrical needs, and declared “energy independence” at a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the milestone.
Four days a week, Rabbi Benny Zippel drives across Utah’s sometimes treacherous terrain, visiting hundreds of Jewish adolescents. They are 10-18 year olds, each facing their own struggle: drug abuse, violent behaviors or eating disorders.
A gruesome hit-and-run accident occurred this afternoon in Crown Heights, in which a delivery worker for a local Chinese restaurant was struck by a car and seriously injured.
In an open letter to the Crown Heights community, Colonel Jacob Goldstein, who served as chairman of Community Board-9 from 1979 until 2014, is urging community members to attend tonight’s monthly board meeting.
Purim is a holiday commemorating courage and redemption, and what better way to celebrate than by reading a Megillah as steeped in history as the holiday itself. This year, Rabbi Sholom Raichik, director of Chabad of Upper Montgomery County in Gaithersburg, Md., is looking forward to reading the story of Esther from a 300-year-old Spanish Megillah scroll.
Moishy (ben R’ Levi) Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Chaya Simon (Teaneck, NJ)
The New York Boys Choir, always looking for ways to make people happy, present this fun-filled and inspiring music video in honor of Purim, titled “Marbim B’simcha,” which was filmed at Kids ‘N Action in Borough Park.
An unknown number of Orthodox Jews are among the thousands of passengers currently stranded in a hangar at the Brussels airport following a pair of deadly explosions this morning. The death toll is currently at 31 with another 55 injured in the bomb blasts.
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