On his way to Israel with his family recently, Jewish businessman Shlomo Rechniz had a temporary stopover in Shannon, Ireland. When entering the airport, he saw approximately 400 American soldiers. Most were eating army meals from a paper bag, while the regular passengers were eating at the various trendy restaurants in the area.
An armed suspect fleeing from police officers was shot and wounded at around 12:30pm today on Montgomery Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues in the heart of Crown Heights.
Chabad-Lubavitch of Northeast London and Essex led an emotional and inspiring trip to Poland by chartering a full plane with 144 participants.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Where can we find strength to overcome challenges?
Two young talmidim of Melbourne’s Cheder Levi Yitzchok made the world’s first Siyum HaRambam of 5776 on Wednesday morning.
Yossi and Geula (nee Hecht) Dalfin (Crown Heights)
More than 600 people came to Marlboro Middle School to hear Eva Geiringer Schloss share her personal story of survival and her message of the dangers of hatred and intolerance. The program was organized by Chabad of Western Monmouth County, NJ.
Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar lit a candle at the Embassy of France in Moscow and read a commemorative prayer for the victims of serial terror attacks in Paris.
Two antisemitic stickers and a note calling for the boycott of all Israeli products were found at the University of Central Florida’s main campus on Sunday, the university’s Chabad rabbi revealed in a statement.
“A hallmark of the Rebbe’s approach to the world was an almost stubborn optimism in the face of tragedy—a refusal to live in fear or to see our world as anything but inherently good,” writes Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson in his new book, “A Time to Heal: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response to Loss and Tragedy.”
Noach and Alti (nee Pevzner) Majesky (Accra, Ghana)
A 21 year-old Israeli bride-to-be who lost her father and brother in a terror attack last week says she and her future husband “will not be crushed” and that their wedding is back on, only this time the “entire nation of Israel is invited.”
In light of the current terror situation gripping the world, Bais Rivkah Girls’ School of Crown Heights made the decision to be proactive about its students’ and faculty’s safety, and implemented new security measures that have already been put into effect.
The heart of Downtown Boston was buzzing with excitement this past Sunday, as close to 1,000 members of Boston’s diverse Jewish community converged at the historic John Hancock Hall for a night of unity and song.
What started as an imaginative idea in August of 2013 has been transformed into a magnificent, record breaking masterpiece – the World’s Most Valuable Dreidel as certified by Guinness World Record on Nov 13, 2015. The Dreidel is valued at an astounding $14,000.
Yosef Nachman Perman (Santiago, Chile) and Chaya Mushka Soussan (France)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Moshe Mordechai ben Levi Yitzchok Boymelgreen OBM a survivor of the holocaust and patriarch to a family of baalei chesed. He was 91 years old.
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