Delegation from UK Visits Auschwitz
Chabad-Lubavitch of Northeast London and Essex led an emotional and inspiring trip to Poland by chartering a full plane with 144 participants.
Video: Finding Strength to Overcome Challenges
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?
Year’s First Siyum HaRambam Takes Place in Melbourne
Two young talmidim of Melbourne’s Cheder Levi Yitzchok made the world’s first Siyum HaRambam of 5776 on Wednesday morning.
Baby Boy!
Yossi and Geula (nee Hecht) Dalfin (Crown Heights)
Survivor to Youth: Take Action Against Hate
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.
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Russia’s Chief Rabbi Lights Candle at French Embassy
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.
Anti-Semitic Stickers Put Up Around Florida Campus
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 Time to Heal: The Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Response to Loss and Tragedy
“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.”
Baby Girl!
Noach and Alti (nee Pevzner) Majesky (Accra, Ghana)
Orphaned Bride Invites All of Israel to Wedding
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.”
Bais Rivkah Institutes New Security Measures
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.
Avraham Fried Rocks Boston at Mega Hakhel Event
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.
$14,000 Dreidel Makes Guinness World Record
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.
New Engagement!
Yosef Nachman Perman (Santiago, Chile) and Chaya Mushka Soussan (France)
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Reb Mordechai Boymelgreen, 91, OBM
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.
He Had a 10% Chance to Live, Now He’s Planning His Wedding
Kiryat Arba resident Meir Pavlovsky, 31, was sitting quietly next to the Hazon David synagogue in his hometown. He was studying Torah when a terrorist appeared out of nowhere and brutally stabbed him in the stomach.
Red Crescent Ambulance Ignored Israeli Terror Victims
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the Palestinian Red Crescent Society of acting against ‘human and civilized norms’ for failing to stop and treat members of the Litman family who were the target of a terror attack in the South Hebron Hills on Friday.
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