Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker is a world-renowned composer of Jewish music with more than 400 melodies to his credit. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Brooklyn in April of 2010.
Right after Purim of this year, Menucha Rochel Andrusier, a 4-year-old Shlucha from Irvine, California, was diagnosed with a yenah machla. The road ahead is extremely difficult and challenging, but with the help of Hashem and all the Mitzvos being done for Rochel, she will G-d willing merit a complete and speedy recovery.
Rabbi Yossi Lipsker presents Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and First Lady Lauren Baker with a Menorah and the Lamplighter Award at Chabad of the North Shore of Boston’s 23rd anniversary gala dinner.
Chabad at the Shore in Atlantic City, NJ, directed by Rabbi Avrohom Rapoport, and head Shliach of Atlantic & Cape May Counties, Rabbi Shmuel Rapoport, announced the purchase of a former Episcopal Church, which – after thorough renovations – will become a center of Jewish outreach.
Residents in northern Crown Heights are asking transportation officials to make safety changes on St. Johns Place in the wake of two deadly accidents.
Singles and couples from as far as Brooklyn traveled to Great Neck, Long Island, to hear Rabbi Manis Friedman’s words of wisdom on the topic of dating.
Baby Café, the highly innovative and trendy baby feeder to Torah Tots Preschool of Chabad Markham, Ontario, has concluded another highly successful year. Over 20 babies and their parents attended this exciting and stimulating program.
Roosevelt lsland—the unobtrusive strip of land that sits in the East River between Queens and Manhattan—is a place many New Yorkers might have trouble pointing out on a map.
Mendy Hildeshaim (Crown Heights) and Mushky Fellig (Montreal, Canada)
Moshe Chayim Silverstein (Crown Heights) and Sarah Nessah Isaac (Los Angeles, CA)
A rabbinical court in Israel granted 100,000 shekels to Haifa resident who refused a Gett for 14 years.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shelach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Are we supposed to rely 100% on G-d?
A classroom-full of girls study diligently in this 30-year-old photo from Beis Rivka, taken in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photo?
Shmaya and Rivkah (nee Stosgofsky) Krinsky (Crown Heights)
Former Connecticut United States Senator Joseph Lieberman was menachem avel the Klein family earlier today, who is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father Rabbi Binyomin Klein OBM, one the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s trusted secretaries.
This year, Oholei Torah’s 5th and 6th grades took their Mishnayos Ba’al Peh program to a whole new level, with a grand Chalukas HaPrasim, distribution of awards, which took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom. Over 350 parents, grandparents and friends joined as the talmidim walked off the stage with Seforim, some of them heavier than the talmidim themselves!
A Holocaust survivor who referred to himself as only a ‘half-Jew’ – since he never had a Bar Mitzvah – while speaking to a group of 8th grade boys from a Chicago-area Chabad school, ended up having an impromptu Bar Mitzvah celebration at the Skokie Holocaust Museum and Education Center.
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