Top Jewish music stars, including Benny Friedman and Lipa Schmeltzer, who will perform at the upcoming ‘Kulturefest’ in Manhattan’s Central Park, were featured on the PIX 11 TV channel, where they gave a preview of their upcoming performance.
Yossi Morad was skydiving in Florida earlier this month and tried to avoid a swamp full of alligators. He ended up surrounded by a room full of rabbis.
Tzviki Krasnjansky (Honolulu, HI) and Mushka Freundlich (Beijing, China)
One of the best kept secrets for the perfect Memorial Day getaway adventure was unveiled at the Memorial Day weekend Carnival on the Long Beach, NY, boardwalk. Rabbi Eli and Beila Goodman, directors of Chabad of the Beaches, produced the Summer Carnival, a gala entertainment and educational event with fun and free admission for the entire family.
The 8th grade of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St. recorded the classic camp song “A Russian Boy’s Hopeless Plight,” about a boy stuck in Communist Russia, who, when given the opportunity to send a letter to the Rebbe, instead of asking for rescue from his harsh life, asks for his Davening to come more naturally.
Renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Manis Friedman explains why the big bang theory makes no sense.
Chabad of Orange County’s Hebrew School celebrated student accomplishments at a festive Moving-Up Awards Ceremony. The event was attended by many of the Hebrew School’s 90 students, along with their families, and was held at the Orange County Sports Club in the town of Florida, NY.
While Jews around the world were counting the final days of Sefirat HaOmer—the 49 days from Passover to Shavuot—some residents of Tasmania, Australia, have been counting how far above flood stage their local rivers remain after days of intense flooding.
Rabbi Aryeh Laufer, his wife Mushka, and their son Mendel have recently established a Chabad House in Lincoln, Rhode Island, to serve the needs of the Jewish community in the northern part of the state.
Heard the old joke about the rabbi, the monk, the nun, and the priest walking onto a show set? It’s a cliche certainly, but in this test kitchen, there’s nothing stale about it.
With Gimmel Tammuz falling out this year on Shabbos, organizers are hard at work preparing for the tens of thousands expected to visit the Ohel. Those wishing to spend Shabbos at the Ohel must reserve a spot in advance by registering.
The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall on Crown and Albany in Crown Heights was swarming with hundreds of boys this past Thursday evening, 3 Sivan, ready to receive their long-awaited seforim vouchers that they earned this year by attending Yeshivas Erev.
A CrownHeighs.info reader sent us the following letter, warning their fellow community members to exercise extreme caution after their home was nearly burned down by a Shabbos hotplate that caught fire.
Last week some 250 guests joined Chabad-Lubavitch North East London and Essex for their annual fundraising dinner. A special tribute was paid to Rabbi Moshe Muller OBM, one of the local Shluchim who suddenly passed away.
An American-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a nightclub in Orlando, Florida, the deadliest mass shooting in the United States and the nation’s worst terror attack since 9/11.
Beyond just commemorating the original event, each year on Shavuos we receive the Torah anew. This new spiritual energy, whether consciously felt or not, brings us new powers and abilities to achieve even more than in the past.
Shavuos is the Yahzeit of the Baal Shem Tov, as well as of Dovid Hamelech. The following is a story that the heilike Ruzhiner would repeat in the name of his great-grandfather the Maggid of Mezerith, which is connected to both of them.
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