It’s been called one of the most contentious construction projects in the history of the city. And after months of protracted debate, Boca Raton leaders gave their blessing to an 18,000-square-foot synagogue and museum to be built by Chabad of East Boca, directed by Rabbi Ruvi New.
Yesterday at around noon, an employee at Kahan’s Grocery store in Crown Heights spotted a suspicious object inside a trash can on Kingston Avenue.
Nearly 300 Jewish women from all over brownstone Brooklyn packed into the Prospect Park Picnic House to learn the spiritual secrets and customs of making challah bread during Challah On The Park on Thursday night, May 14.
Driving up Kingston this morning you can’t miss the warm welcome, a beautiful Bruchim Habaim to the 116 girl finalists that have come in from around the world for the Chidon Sefer Hamitzvos.
Hundreds of hungry students and community members descended on Chabad of Nottingham, UK, for a four-course dinner at its annual ‘Shabbat 200′ celebration.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Naso. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we remain positive?
Yisroel and Nechama Dina (nee Stern) Zilbershtrom (Crown Heights)
Ari Greene (Tarzana, CA) and Shaina Wolff (Crown Heights)
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Moshe (Mitchel) Dick OBM, a former resident of Crown Heights and worker in the Yeshiva in Morristown. He was 49 years old.
Rabbi Pinchas Weberman is the rabbi of the Ohev Shalom Congregation of Miami Beach, which he founded in 1960. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project twice in his home, once in 2010 and the other 2011.
Dovid Greenwald (Flatbush, NY) and Shevi (bas Chaim) Druin (N. Miami Beach, FL)
Most people go to Jamaica to relax, but Rabbi Yaakov Raskin and his wife Mushkee aren’t there to take it easy. As the first-ever permanent Chabad emissaries to the island nation famous for rum, reggae, and runners, they have been hard at work since last fall, serving the Jews who live and vacation there.
Mendy Drihem (Montreal, Canada) and Mushka Kaplan (Los Angeles, CA)
French lawmakers passed a law requiring “religious neutrality” in all educational institutions for children under the age of 6.
A series of marijuana-inspired art classes set to take place at a Jewish center in Aspen were canceled a day after they were announced, the Aspen Daily News reported on Friday.
Bat Mitzvah Club Internationals (BMC), the international club for Jewish girls preparing for their Bat Mitzvah, is excited to announce the launch of its new website www.batmitzvahclub.com.
After more than a year of controversy, Brooklyn Community Board 9 voted Tuesday to again recommend the city study zoning changes in parts of Crown Heights.
