Last Thursday, October 29, at around 3:30pm, a school-bus driver who also serves as a Shomrim volunteer was driving up Troy Avenue between Carroll and President Streets when he witnessed a teenaged African-American male put his hands through the window of a parked car and remove a pair of Tefilin.
A 5-day seminar for activists of the EnerJew youth movement opened in Jerusalem early this week. About 200 youngsters from 20 cities across the former Soviet Union have gathered in the capital of Israel to experience the country, learn, connect to peers and further discover their shared Jewish heritage.
A miracle unfolded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a few months ago – and Chabad Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport recounted the tale in an interview with Arutz Sheva.
It’s no secret that it takes a village to raise a child; so then it’s no novelty that it would take a community to publish the most thorough and exhaustive book available today on the laws of Mezuzah.
In honor of Chof Cheshvan, birthday of the Rebbe Rashab – who founded Tomchei Temimim, the students of the central yeshiva in 770 gathered together for a Farbrengen with the Mashpia Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi.
In the spirit of Hakhel, this year’s Kinus Banquet will feature a dynamic and inspiring new presentation. The annual guest keynote address, will be delivered this year jointly by delegates of each age-demographic that is serviced, educated and inspired by Shluchim and Shluchos around the world.
The Vizhnitzer Rebbe of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager Shlita, made a special visit to 770 – the Lubavitch World Headquarters, a first since Gimmel Tammuz.
Months of preparation are culminating in this final stretch of round-the-clock hustle and bustle as the untiring Kinus staff puts the finishing touches to what will be the largest International Kinus Hashluchim ever yet.
Dozens of friends and relatives of Mrs. Sara Deren (nee Cohen) OBM, who passed away suddenly this morning, gathered in front of 770 on Monday night to partake in her Levaya. From there the procession made its way to John F. Kennedy International Airport on its way to Israel.
On Sunday, 1st of November, Professor Alan Dershowitz addressed a full-capacity hall of Jewish students at the Oxford Chabad Society after having successfully debated the BDS movement at the Oxford Union. The much-anticipated events were well attended; a full chamber of 250 people at the union, and around 200 at the Chabad society.
Eliyahu and Chumi (nee Bukiet) Andrusier (Crown Heights)
Dovi and Chana (nee Cohen) Lesches (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you know when something is Holy?
Several Shluchim gather for a seminar at the International Kinus Hashluchim in 1990. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
The Friendship Circle of South Bay in Los Angeles, founded and directed by Rabbi Yossi Mintz, raised a whopping $1.4 million during its 7th annual Pier to Pier Friendship Walk, which is sponsored by Skechers.
Rabbi Isser Lubecki, now married and serving as a Chabad Shliach in Paris, France, will make a stopover in Toronto on his way to the Kinus Hashluchim in New York this year. The purpose of this stopover is to pay a visit to his former Yeshiva, Nefesh Dovid – a Yeshiva that caters to Bochurim who are deaf – where he will make a Siyum on the entire Shas in front of his beaming former teachers and classmates.
Rabbi Shmuel Kopel, originally from Crown Heights, recently moved to Tzfas, Israel, to perform Shlichus there. In honor of the upcoming “Shabbat Chevron” weekend, which coincides every year with Parshas Chayei Sarah – in which Avraham purchased the Me’aras Hamachpelah – he composed, recorded and filmed this music video about the holy city of our forefathers.
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