Body of Missing Jewish Woman Found in Submerged Car
A 22-year-old Jewish woman from Passaic, NJ, who has been missing for two days has been found dead in her car, r”l, submerged in the Passaic river.
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Jaacov Zwi and Nechama Dinah (nee Stiefel) Spiero (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Weekly Living Torah Video: When The Rebbe Requested A Favor
As Chassidim around the world prepare for Yud Shevat, JEM’s Living Torah proves a great Hachana to this special day.
Several years ago, Daniella Moffson received an award from Friendship Circle, presented by Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Gary Galperin.
Student Killed in Honduras Crash Remembered for a Life of Volunteering
Daniella Moffson spent her winter vacation from college like she spent much of her time: by reaching out and helping others.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One with the Interrogation
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Bo. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: If the rabbis who sanctified the new Jewish Lunar month anyways knew the exact moment when the moon would be reborn, then why did the Torah also require the testimony of 2 witnesses who’d seen the new moon in order to seal the deal? Couldn’t their intellectual scientific mastery be enough?
Shabbos at the Besht: Did Everyone Leave Golus Mitzrayim?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shlomie Kagan will lead a discussion on the topic – Did everyone leave golus mitzrayim?
Picture of the Day: French Consul Does ‘Kipah Challenge’
In response to the current situation with anti-Semitism in France, where some Jewish leaders have suggested that Jews not wear yarmulkes in public out of fear for their safety, Rabbi Mikhael Cohen, head of Chabad for French-speakers in New York City, created the ‘Kipah Challenge,’ in which Jews and non-Jews alike take photos of themselves publically wearing a Kipah in defiance of terror.
Join the Yud Shevat Learning Campaign
In honor of Yud Shevat and in the spirit of Hakhel, JNet and Chabad.org have launched a worldwide learning campaign, uniting Jews around the world in the study of a sicha of the Rebbe.
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Matisyahu and Simcha (nee Nigri) Herrera (Crown Heights)
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Crownheights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe giving Tzedakah as he walks into 770 for Shachris
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rebbetzin Golda Schwei, 78, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Golda Schwei OBM, a longtime resident of Montreal who inspired many women over the years. She passed away on Thursday, 4 Shevat 5776. She was 78 years old.
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Shmuel and Nechama Peles (Crown Heights)
Heartwarming Lottery Story a Hoax
Yesterday evening the NY Post published a heartwarming story that spread through social media like wildfire: a nurse at a California nursing home received a Powerball ticket from her boss – Frum businessman and philanthropist Shlomo Rechnitz – and won the largest jackpot in lottery history. Unfortunately, the story turned out to be a hoax.
Letter & Spirit: Mesiras Nefesh for Chinuch
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of Yud Shvat, we present a letter of the Rebbe underlining the Frierdiker Rebbe’s self sacrifice for Yidden in all areas of Yiddshkeit – but especially in the area of chinuch, the most vital and basic of all others. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Kivun: A New Model for Jewish Charter School Children
A group of second graders sit in a circle in a colorful New York City classroom as their teacher leads them in a guided meditation of the Adon Olam prayer. Weaving in Hebrew words from the prayer as she describes trees, animals and people, the teacher asks the children to imagine a world stripped of these basic earthly elements.
At Israel’s First Kibbutz, New Torah Makes Its Mark
The famed Kibbutz Degania Alef on the shores of the Kinneret in northern Israel has received a noteworthy new gift. The kibbutz, Israel’s very first, established in 1909 under Ottoman rule, now has a kosher Torah scroll for use for services, holidays, religious ceremonies and more.
Al Jazeera America to Shut Down
The Al Jazeera America cable news network said Wednesday it will shut down two and a half years after its launch.
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