Rabbi Yale and Rickelle New began Friendship Circle of Atlanta in December 2011, soon after the couple married. From their home in the Toco Hills neighborhood near the heart of Georgia’s capital city, they have worked tirelessly to grow the program from its infancy to a thriving resource, matching teenage volunteers with children who have special needs.
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has created a new brochure on the supposed dangers of the practice of Metzitzah B’peh (MBP), which it will distribute to new Jewish mothers in hospitals throughout the city, in a bid to discourage them from having the ritual performed on their newborn sons.
Rabbi Yosef Gerlitzky, Director of Chabad in Tel Aviv, told Arutz Sheva about Shabbat observance in the traditionally secular coastal city and how his organization is working to improve it from the air.
Mrs. Rose Schrage was the businesses manager of the Crown Heights Board of Education for 30 years. She was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in her home in Brooklyn in October of 2010.
A rally and press conference took place this evening, August 26, in Crown Heights, drawing hundreds of area residents in protest of the ‘Iran deal,’ which will allow the Islamist regime to procure nuclear weapons and restore billions of dollars to their terror-financing coffers. A small group of Neturei Karta protesters – but with very large signs – attended as well and counter-protested.
Last week Moti Edri was engaged in ‘Mivtzoim’, getting people in the Azrieli Mall in Tel Aviv to put on tefilin. His mehudar tefilin disappeared at some point, and they were found the following day in a trash can.
Lawyers for a group opposing the Jewish ritual of Kaporos were in a Manhattan court today, asking that a Superior Court judge put an end to the annual event not only because of they find it offensive, but due to the fact that it violates some 15 laws.
University of Illinois police have arrested a Champaign man in connection with the Aug. 19 vandalizing of the menorah outside the Chabad Jewish Center on the University of Illinois campus in Champaign.
Chasidic singing sensation Shimmy Engel teamed up with Chabad comedian Mendy Pellin to produce a music video for his latest hit song – Givald!
This year, Gan Israel Day Camp of Edgware, UK, attracted over 310 children ages 4-12 from Edgware and Northwest London for two weeks of fun and excitement.
A rally and press conference scheduled for later this evening in Crown Heights is expected to draw hundreds of residents opposing the nuclear deal with Iran. CrownHeights.info has learned that radical anti-Israel groups who support the Iran deal, including Code Pink and Neturei Karta, are planning to attend as well in a bid to disrupt the community’s unified voice.
The Piamenta family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, R’ Yossi, OBM, at 2382 East 5th Street in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Shachris – 7:30am. Mincha – 7:00pm. Maariv – Bizmana. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion […]
Hundreds of community members in Paris and Israel attended the Levaya of Hatomim Shenur Zalman Pevzner OBM, who tragically passed away at the age of 22.
“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info presents a weekly feature for the summer months: a short thought of the Rebbe on tznius, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, along with his brother-in-law and the latter’s brother, paid a visit to the Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brunoy, France, where they were greeted by its Hanholo – Rabbi Itche Nemenov and Rabbi Mendel Gurevitch.
For its third year in a row, over 900 people in two of Australia’s largest cities, participated in a massive community Achdus and Torah learning event.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Teitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one avoid having any challenges in one’s life?
