As the five Chasidic yeshiva students from America who found themselves targets of a murderous Arab mob in Chevron yesterday are recuperating from their terrifying ordeal, video footage has emerged of their dramatic rescue, with one of the group sharing the story of their nightmare visit to Chevron with an Israeli news site.
The Talmidim at Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. gathered together Wednesday to commemorate the day of Chai Elul. This project began on Sunday, Tes Vov Elul, the day Tomchei Tmimim was established, and continued through Chai Elul – Wednesday.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Lerner will lead a discussion on the topic – Tekios meyushov or me’umad: Why do we blow the shofar twice?
This summer, Yaldei hosted its 8th Regional Parent Respite Program. West Coast Shluchim gathered in sunny San Diego for three days of educational seminars, recreational activities and time to bond with other shluchim raising children with special needs.
Earlier this week the Los Angeles Dodgers held a Jewish Community Day at Dodgers Stadium. Before the first pitch Shliach Rabbi Yossi Mintz blew Shofar in front of the gathering crowd.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during davening at a children’s rally in 1987.
Bochurim of ‘Kvutzeh 5775’ who have been studying in 770 over the past year posed for a group photo yesterday.
Hundreds of Yaldey Hashluchim from all over Europe and Ukraine enjoyed min camps throughout the summer with help from MyShliach and Merkos Suite 302.
Allan Sheff “will never forget” when Rabbi Leibel Fine came to his doorstep with a shofar in hand. “It was the first day of Rosh Hashanah, and I wasn’t feeling well and hadn’t been able to attend synagogue. That afternoon there was a knock at the door, and there was Leibel, who’d recently arrived with his wife, Chana, to establish a Chabad House.
Moshe and Miriam Silver (Crown Heights
The New York City Police Department is saying this has been the safest summer in over 20 years.
Rabbi Zalman Levertov, founder and director of Chabad of Arizona, hangs one of the mezuzahs at the new building of Cheder Lubavitch of Arizona, accompanied by the school’s third-grade class.
The team of Chabad Shluchim operating in the Eastern European nation of Ukraine, which is currently embroiled in a war with Russian-backed separatists in the east, gathered in the city of Dnepropetrovsk for a regional Kinus to share ideas and inspiration. The kinus was hosted by Shliach and chief rabbi of the city Rabbi Shmuel Kaminetzky, and was attended by Merkos vice-chairman Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky.
A car with five American Yeshiva Bochrim narrowly escaped a lynching this afternoon, after they got lost on their way to the Me’aras Hamchpela in Chevron and ended up in an Arab neighborhood.
It’s impossible to know how many bar mitzvahs have been celebrated in this most ancient of Jewish cities in the last 3,700 years since the patriarch Abraham purchased his family’s burial plot here. It’s just as difficult to determine how many Chassidic celebrations and milestones have been marked since the second Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe—Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the Mittler Rebbe—purchased property in this holy city more than 200 years ago.
With the recent scourge of Police personnel being attacked around the country, Chabad of Mineola, NY, has launched a new ‘Thank You Police Officer’ project.
Dr. Les Rosenthal practices dentistry in Encino, California. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in September of 2011. His story was featured on a Glimpse through the Veil, Volume 1.
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