Each year, before holiday Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, social media and standard media explode in an outrage of the Jewish custom of Kapparot.
Bais Rivkah High School students announced the initiation of a new Challah Bake challenge in honor of vov tishrei, Rebbetzin Chana’s Yartzeit.
Zalmy Labkowsky (Los Angeles, CA) and Etty Begun (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
The body of missing Israeli Amir Ohana was found in a river in Uman, Ukraine after he was reported missing last week.
Have you ever wondered why the challahs we eat during the month of Tishrei are round? Yes I know it is much easier for the bakery to make round challahs than braided ones. However this is a minhag in Jewish communities for hundreds of years, and people didn’t just do it out of convenience.
Police evacuated businesses and rerouted traffic Thursday afternoon when a suspicious package was discovered near the Chabad House in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia.
Dozens of people rallied in Crown Heights yesterday, Thursday, in a call to end gun violence, following the death of an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was caught in a crossfire during a not-unusually violent Labor Day.
On the occasion of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish Educational Center Chabad-Berlin welcomed German politicians and public figures for a reception. Ambassadors, ministers, government members and representatives of parties gathered at the annual new year reception to commemorate the beginning of the Jewish year 5776 and express the importance of supporting Jewish culture in Berlin.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Elie Matusof will lead a discussion on the topic – All about the Daled Minim.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing coins for tzedakah to children during Tishrei, 1986.
Chabad of Southside in Jacksonville, Florida, under the leadership of Rabbi Shmuli Novack, celebrated its 10th anniversary and the completion of a new Sefer Torah – just in time for the high holidays.
In his adopted hometown of Frisco, Mendy Kessleman stands out with the look of one who might have just stepped off the stage of a production of “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Nisson Moishe and Chani Vaisfiche (Crown Heights)
At around 3:00 this afternoon, a Shomrim volunteer was parking his scooter on Kingston Avenue near Crown Street when a Jewish woman approached him and said she had just been robbed.
Subsidized chickens for the traditional Kaporos ritual will once again be made available for Crown Heights residents by the NCFJE.
In accordance with the Rebbe’s urgent personal plea (‘Bakosho Nafshis’) to make Hakhel gatherings as often as possible – beginning as early as Aseres Yemei Teshuva, the Talmidim at United Lubavitcher Yeshiva had their first Hakhel gathering on the day after Rosh Hashana.
A young Israeli father of three has gone missing in Uman, and now a desperate search is underway to find him.
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