Stabber Found Mentally Unfit to Stand Trial
During a court appearance earlier this week, the man arrested in connection with the stabbing of Yehuda Leib Brikman on a Crown Heights street was found unfit to stand trial due to mental illness.
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Community Leaders and City Reps Pledge to Fight Hate
A meeting between the mayor’s office and activists and leaders from both the Jewish and African-American communities met to discuss a recent spike in hate crimes against the Jewish community, and allay community fears of growing racial tension.
Donations to Muller Family Fund to Be Doubled
A matching crowd-funding campaign has been launched for the sake of the family of Rabbi Moshe Muller, OBM, Shliach to Ilford, UK, who passed away suddenly and tragically last week and left behind a wife and eight children without a clear source of income.
Learning, Kneading, Laughing at Upstate Challah Bake
Close to 30 women recently joined a Challah Baking Workshop led by Mrs. Chana Burston at Chabad of Orange County in Chester, NY.
Video: Inspiring Others to Overcome Challenges
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Emor. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How do you inspire others to overcome challenges?
Daughter of Drowning Victim: WhatsApp Killed My Father
The daughter of Yitzchok Rosenberg, one of the two men who tragically died yesterday on a Miami area beach, reportedly wrote the following open letter in which she relates that WhatsApp informed her of her father’s death – before it was even confirmed.
Baby Girl!
Levi and Rivky (nee Levin) Yusewitz (Postville, IA)
Jewish by Design: Chabad at FIT
They meet weekly in A320, an unassuming club room at the iconic Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT). Students of toy design, fashion, and business, they gather each Tuesday to create something ever more eternal.
New Engagement!
Shmuly Hertz (Edegem, Belgium) and Yehudis (bas Yisroel) Heller (Crown Heights)
Woman Shot After Being Caught in Crossfire
A 56-year-old woman was shot on Nostrand Avenue after an argument nearby descended into violence.
New Engagement!
Menachem Mendel Yomtov-Yan (Israel) and Chaya Malka Ben-Chayon (Crown Heights)
After 55 Years of Work in Minnesota, Couple to Be Honored
It’s been 55 years since Rabbi Moshe and Mindelle Feller set out to found Upper Midwest Merkos–Chabad Lubavitch in Minnesota in the winter of 1961, a mere month after their marriage. Now, for the first time in a career that has spanned 10 U.S. presidencies and countless meaningful interactions, the couple has agreed to be honored at a gala dinner of the Cheder Lubavitch Day School, which the couple founded 39 years ago in St. Paul.
European Shluchos Convene in Prague
A gala dinner held last night by the European ‘Chana’ Organization hosted 150 Shluchos of the Rebbe, who joined the event from all parts of the continent.
Friendship Circle Volunteers Thanked at Year-End Event
“Who am I?” was the theme of this year’s Friendship Circle’s annual volunteer appreciation event. 170 girls and their proud mothers came together at the JCM on Thursday night to salute the work and dedication of the volunteers this year.
Photos: A Day at Cheder Ohel Menachem in Yerres
Photographer Menachem Benhamou spent a day at the Chabad Cheder in Yerres, a suburb of Paris, France, and captured the sights and spirits through the lens of his camera.
R' Chaim Parnes, OBM (L), and R' Yitzchok Rosenberg, OBM (R).
Tragedy: Two Chasidic Men Drown in Miami
Two prominent members of the Satmar Chasidic community in New York passed away this morning in a tragic accident on a Miami area Beach, where they were pulled into the sea by a riptide.
Rabbinical Congress: No Negotiations with Terrorists
Over 40 leading members of the Rabbinical Congress for Peace (RCP) convened at an emergency conference in Jerusalem Sunday May 15, 2016 to deliberate the incessant terror wave in Israel and in order to protest the intention to renew negotiations with the Palestinians.
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