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.
Shlomie and Mushky (nee Korf) Stock (Crown Heights)
In this photo, taken in 1987, a group of Oholei Torah students lines up before class. Can you identify those in the photo?
When a Montreal Jew working in a large company decided to approach his boss and ask for an accommodation in order to start keeping Shabbos, he received a pleasant surprise.
In anticipation of Gimmel Tammuz, the Israeli Knesset hosted Chabad Rabbonim, Shluchim and community leaders from across the country for a special session, in which they saluted the Lubavitcher Rebbe and the movement he inspired.
A small group of Crown Heights children was spotted on Friday selling ice pops to passersby on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Carroll St. The aim of the sale was to raise money for a Jewish girl in California, Menucha Rochel bas Gila Elka, who is battling Yeneh Machlah and needs a speedy and complete recovery.
71 years after the allied forces invaded the coast of Normandy in their fight against the Nazis, history was once again made in this northwestern region of France – the first Halachic Bris Milah performed on a Jewish child in as many decades.
Islington Council and Chabad-Lubavitch of Islington marked the unveiling last week of the “Islington People’s Plaque” on the site of the former North London Synagogue on Lofting Road, which was built in 1868 and demolished in 1958. But the day wound up just as focused on the future as it did on the past.
Watch what happens when this Jewish dance-off gets out of control. Comedian Mendy Pellin‘s Jewbellish Films has teamed up with The One Voice Foundation to spread the message of unity. Will you join the dance?
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