In an interview with the New York Daily News from his parents’ home in Seagate, Leiby Brickman, who was stabbed in the back earlier this month by an unknown assailant on Empire Blvd. in Crown Heights, said that the NYPD must increase its vigilance to prevent these types of hate crimes against Jews.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Ki Tisa. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why did G-d thank Moses for breaking the first set of Tablets? And if he had good reason for it, why did he wait an entire 40 days before thanking him?
Velvil Rosler (Toronto, Canada) and Mushka (bas Shloime) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
Mendy Bass (Postville, IA) and Debora Epelbaum (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Uri and Rochel Leah (nee Brownstein) Perlman (Kingston, PA)
Rabbi Shloma Majeski is the principal of Machon Chana, a Chabad school in Brooklyn for college-age women who are new to the study of Torah. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in August of 2015.
For young Jewish teens in South Africa, history was made today as the first members of CTeen-Cape Town landed at NYC’s JFK airport, completing the maiden voyage to the international CTeen Shabbaton.
Students in Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim-770 have been notified recently by the Yeshiva’s administration that they must turn in their smartphones for kosher ‘filters’ to be installed.
Rabbi Shalom Lubin is the Chabad Shliach to Parsippany, New Jersey. For years, he has had a video of his Bar Mitzvah by the Rebbe. Recently, recognizing the preciousness of such a clip, he generously shared the video with JEM.
A University of Illinois softball player accused of vandalizing a Chabad House menorah on campus was charged Tuesday with a felony.
New York City police have made public a tool that maps a week’s worth of crime throughout the five boroughs.
Cheder at the Ohel teacher Rabbi Chaim Lipszyc brought his father, Rabbi Yizchok Meir Lipzsyc, Shliach to Crimea, to Farbreng with the boys of the Cheder in honor of Purim Koton.
Eliav Gellman, a 30-year-old Israeli father of two, died of his wounds on Wednesday afternoon following an attempted terrorist stabbing attack at the Gush Etzion Junction in the West Bank.
Rashi Wine Company founder Yossi Zuker describes an encounter he had with legendary Nazi hunter Simon Weisenthal, and his emotional response when he asked him to put on Tefilin.
Representatives of the Ruderman Chabad Inclusion Initiative (RCII) were among guests at the White House on Thursday morning for a briefing and discussion on the accessibility for and inclusion of people with disabilities in the Jewish community.
Camp Camp Emunah B’nos Yaakov Yehudah has announced the names of the capable and experienced young women who will be leading the popular girls’ camp this upcoming summer.
Ashi (ben Velvel) Farkash (Crown Heights) and Etty Kiel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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