Chabad of Orange County’s Hebrew School Awards Ceremony was full of spirit and excitement. Held at the Pavilion of the Chester Commons Park in upstate New York, the nearly 100 students and their families gathered for a memorable June afternoon.
The Crown Heights community is invited to a joyous celebration as the Lakein, Brackman, and Bension families complete a sefer Torah in loving memory of their dear parents, Rabbi Shlomo and Miriam Lakein, OBM.
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Mendy and Sarah (nee Abramson) Rimler (Tempe, Arizona)
The Creative Soul gallery of Crown Heights is delighted to present a solo exhibition of artwork by Robert Kremnizer of Sydney, Australia, titled ‘Belief in Color.’
A brand new Mikva and Shul were Inaugurated at the headquarters of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. A special guest for the event was Rabbi Leibel Groner.
A law affecting rents paid by 2 million New York City tenants expired late Monday as state lawmakers failed to reach an agreement on extending it before a midnight deadline.
Meir and Bella (nee Kirschenbaum) Pliskin (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Korach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is a balanced spiritual life?
Shmuli Teitlebaum (Montreal, Canada) and Mushky Gurkow (Westford, MA)
Recently, I spent Shabbos in a non-Lubavitch community. On the way to shul, my hostess bumped into a friend of hers and invited her to join us. The friend declined and we said good shabbos. Half a block away, my hostess commented, “I try to be nice to people who are less than me. It’s a mitzvah.” I didn’t say anything, but inside I was pinched. What does that mean— “less than me”? How can you say that about another Jew?
First grades in Montreal’s Lubavitch Yeshiva were rewarded in a special event after they completed learning 1,113 lines of Tanya by heart, along with 70 Niggunim. Mrs. Joannie Tansky, a grandmother of one of the students, writes about her amazement at the passion the children displayed in their learning.
Rabbi Shalom Gopin was in a car heading back towards Lugansk. Burned-out shells of cars and tanks littered the side of the highway, and as they drove, Gopin’s driver took care to avoid the missile craters pockmarking the road. War had irrevocably changed this once quiet eastern region of Ukraine.
Marking their 12th annual gala anniversary, Chabad at the Beaches received congratulations from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and from their local congressman Ron Desantis.
