A 12-year-old Israeli girl on a Pesach trip with her family was killed Wednesday when their tour boat caught fire in the Andaman Sea off Thailand’s southwestern coast. More than 100 people, including many foreign tourists, were rescued from the boat.
Police are scouring hotels, parks and reserves throughout Sydney as the search intensifies for a young Jewish mother, Jessica Bialek, who vanished from her home over 24 hours ago. Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for the sake of Chana Bas Sarah.
A 22-year-old Israeli man was beaten to death on the streets of Berlin, Germany, shortly before the onset of Pesach. The man was beaten so badly he was rendered unidentifiable by local police, save for the Israeli passport in his pocket.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday through Saturday, April 9-11 for holiday observances. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Over 4,000 participated in the first ever Chabad’s Passover at Marlins Park at the Miami Marlins vs. Atlanta Braves game in Miami. In an unprecedented Kiddush Hashem visitors enjoyed Kosher L’Pesach food and drink, a concert by The Maccabeats and on field ceremonies including the first pitch thrown by Shliach Rabbi Yakov Fellig of Chabad of the Grove.
Following the instruction of The Rebbe, members of the Chabad community in Montreal took part in Kinusei Torah which are taking place on every day of Chol Hamoed
A second victim has passed away as result of injuries he sustained at the Levaya of Rav Shmuel Halevy Wosner, OBM on Motzai Shabbos in Bnei Brak. The victim was identified as 18-year-old Yitzhak Sama’at OBM.
Marking Chai Nissan, the birthday of R. Levi Yitzchok the Rebbes father, a children’s rally was held in downstairs 770.
Chabad centers hosted more than 40,000 guests at Pesach seders in hundreds of cities around the globe. In North America alone, community seders took place in more than 1,000 locations; across Russia, there were nearly 500 seders in more than 200 communities; and seders were held on dozens campuses worldwide.
Six years ago, Rabbi Moshe Greenwald decided to open a synagogue and Jewish community center at 7th and Broadway, in the heart of a rapidly changing downtown Los Angeles. The feedback wasn’t entirely uplifting.
In this vintage photograph, legendary Chosid Reb Mendel Futerfas engages in animated conversation with an IDF general in Kfar Chabad. Also seen in the photo are Rabbis Shlomo Maidanchik and Berke Wolff.
This week is all about the matzah. But for Rabbi Yisroel Rosenblum, so was last week, and the week before that, and the week before that.
Humans of Amsterdam, a Facebook Page featuring photos of random city-dwellers and their stories inspired by Humans of New York, last Thursday featured a photo of local Campus Shliach Rabbi Yanki Jacobs, who had just delivered a box of Matzah to the Mayor.
After Leibel Ferris, son of Shluchim in Berkeley, California, was featured on ‘Humans of New York’ along with his parents ‘interesting’ background, 157,358 people ‘liked’ the post and created an interest in the word ‘Hassid’ and as result exposed thousands to Chabad.
Oholei Torah melmadim, morahs and staff received a most generous show of appreciation just before Yom Tov. The vibrant leaders of the Oholei Torah PTA understand the hard word and dedication put in by the teachers and choose to show that appreciation.
Dovi (ben Hershi) Vogel (London, England) and Katie Sasoon (Hendon, England)
Levi and Chayale (nee Kesselman) Tzukernik (Crown Heights)
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