Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the holiday of Passover. Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we achieve great miracles in our lives?
A special reunion took place in Israel—one that had the power to bring the strongest and bravest of men to tears.
Congregants at Chabad of Gloucester County in Mullica, New Jersey, participated in a historic moment Saturday, as Rabbi Avi Richler read from a new sefer Torah for the first time.
Police have identified a pattern of work van break-ins in the neighborhood in recent months, committed by burglars who steal tools and equipment from parked vehicles.
Following an anti-Semitic tirade containing medieval conspiracy theories about Jews delivered by a politician from Russian President Vladimir Putin’s party, Rabbi Berel Lazar, chief rabbi and head of Chabad in Russia, called on the government to stamp out hate speech against Jews.
On Thursday morning, a non-Jewish man burst into the Apta Shul on Wallabout Street and Lee Avenue in Williamsburg and went on a rampage – flipping tables and benches and throwing chairs and books. The disturbing incident was caught on surveillance video.
More than a dozen members of a Jewish family were hospitalized for carbon monoxide exposure over the first days of Pesach in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City near the Bronx. The family had a working carbon monoxide detector, which alerted them to the danger and almost certainly saved their lives.
A unique partnership between Chabad in Nigeria and an Israeli-owned security company enabled six large public Seders to take place in Africa’s largest country for the first time in history.
Tens of thousands of Jews visited the Western Wall Monday morning for the traditional Bircahs Kohanim ceremony on Chol HaMoed Pesach.
Zach Frisch (Coral Springs, FL) and Tovah Berman (NJ/Isrsel)
Moshe and Doba (nee Lieberman) Raskin (Crown Heights)
Citing religious prohibitions, a Chabad rabbi in eastern Russia vetoed a local Jew’s plan to erect a statue of Moses in Birobidzhan — an area which Soviet governments designated as a Jewish autonomous region.
Sitting in the Kolel in 770, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, the Moro D’asro of Crown Heights met with Mark, the Gentile to whom he sold the Chometz on behalf of the residents of Crown Heights.
Crown Heights residents set out this morning to fulfill the custom of Biur Chometz – the burning of the leavened bread before Passover. As in previous years, an area in front of 770 was designated as the main location for this purpose.
After being boarded up for three years and coming close to being declared derelict, the Chabad House on Peel Street at Montreal’s McGill University has reopened following a $2.2-million renovation and expansion.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, dean and spiritual leader of the Chabad Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia, sold the community’s Chametz today to the Honorable David Clarke, MLC, member of the NSW Parliament.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe in a Yechidus with the two Israeli Chief Rabbis, Rabbis Mordechai Eliyahu and Avraham Shapira, 1989. Two years earlier, the Rebbe encouraged the chief rabbis to conduct large public seders, “There is a need to make an effort that all four children should sit at the Seder table, including those that the entire year are far from observing anything Jewish.”
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