Hundreds of ‘Kvutzeh’ students, teachers and members of Anash gathered for a special Hakhel and birthday Farbrengen in the Crown Heights Kollel. Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky was among those who Farbrenged; he revealed some of the Rebbe’s feelings about the phenomenon of Kvutzeh, and delivered a scathing admonition of the Hanhala of Tomchei Temimim-770.
Municipal official in the southern French city of Marseilles have apparently requested that Chabad cancel their annual public Menorah lighting ceremony, due to security concerns stemming from an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish teacher in the city last Wednesday.
This past Sunday night, members of the Jewish community of Great Neck, NY, joined together to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of young Shliach Sholom Dovber Chayempour. The Bar Mitzvah boy was joined by his classmates and teachers, who traveled from Crown Heights to attend the celebration.
The Maccabeats are back with a new music video for Chanukah This year their entertaining song comes with a delicious recipe for latkes.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayishlach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one merit to live a life without any pain, and with only true peace and happiness?
For the first time in decades, a large group of Chassidim spent last Shabbos, 9-10 Kislev – the birthday, Yahrtzeit and Chag Hageulah of the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber of Lubavitch – at his gravesite in the Ukrainian town of Niezhin.
Avremi and Deena (nee Abend) Andrusier (Crown Heights)
Yisroel and Aliza Silberstein (Chernigov, Ukraine)
Massachusetts native Ezra Schwartz HYD, who was murdered by a Palestinian Terrorist last week, was honored by his hometown New England Patriots with a moment of silence by the team and some 60,000 fans Monday night.
Mendy and Deena (nee Kashy) Holtzman (Miami, FL)
Schneur Zalman Stern (Crown Heights) and Devorah Leah Margolis (Oak Park, MI)
Yisrael Bachar (Givat Ze’ev, Israel) and Raizy Brownstein (Crown Heights)
Members of the historic New Jersey synagogue Congregation Poale Zedek in New Brunswick, NJ, along with Jews from all around the region, gathered yesterday to bury nine Torah scrolls and hundreds of books that were destroyed in a fire – along with the synagogue itself.
The three-day ‘Babyland Expo’ in Tel Aviv, which was held from Tuesday to Thursday last week, attracted around 30,000 visitors this year. Many of them stopped to do a Mitzvah at Chabad’s ‘Mivtzoim’ stand.
Shloime and Esther Chaya (nee Kupfer) Zellermaier (Boro Park)
HaMesivta is working on another hands-on learning project: This time around, the bochrim are making wine for Pesach, learning step by step all about its intricate process.
Kopel Silberberg (West Bloomfield, MI) and Goldy (bas R’ Yankie) Fellig (Crown Heights)
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