Rabbi Mendel Goldstein of Crown Heights met a 70-year-old Jewish stock trader who hadn’t put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah, which took place in 1958. The man readily agreed to put on Tefilin, and – with deep emotion – recited “Shema Yisroel” on his own.
A weather pattern partly linked with the ‘El Nino’ phenomenon has turned winter upside-down across the U.S., bringing spring-like warmth to the Northeast, a risk of tornadoes in the South and so much snow across the West that even skiing slopes have been overwhelmed.
A rabbi in Yeshiva Aish Hatorah for Baalei Teshuvah in Jerusalem died after he was injured amid a stabbing attack by two Palestinian terrorists near the Jaffa Gate of the Old City earlier today. Update: Second victim dies.
During an historic meeting yesterday with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, Israeli Prime Minster Benjamin Netanyahu noted the intertwined – and often tragic – history of the Jewish people and the land of Ukraine. Netanyahu mentioned the names of several Jewish leaders born in Ukraine, notably the Lubavitcher Rebbe, who – Netanyahu noted with pride – he shared a personal relationship with.
Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson is back with his latest comedy sketch, in which he pays a visit to his grandma. If you know a Bubby, you will laugh!
Three Israelis were wounded, two seriously and one critically, in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem on Wednesday afternoon, Hebrew media outlets reported.
Edi Rama, the Prime Minister of Albania, visited to Kotel as part of a trip to Israel on the 25th anniversary since establishing normalized relations by his country and Israel. He was accompanied by Shliach Rabbi Yoel Kaplan, who also serves as the Chief Rabbi of Albania.
Chaim Levi Cohen (Montreal, Canada) and Yehudis Dubinsky (Morristown, NJ)
A crowd of over 500 Jewish women from all across Fairfield County, Connecticut, gathered this past Thursday evening at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Greenwich for a Mega Challah Bake.
There are 200 plants in Russia that produce kosher-certified products, the Federation of the Jewish Communities of Russia told Interfax-Religion last Wednesday. Ten years ago, only three such plants were known to exist.
The Los Angeles community came out in droves to show support for its teachers at the second annual Corks & Forks event, a community-wide unity and Hakhel event honoring its teachers.
The Houston Chronicle published this photo, welcoming new Chabad Shliach to the Tremont area, Rabbi Dovid Goldstein. The Chronicle notes that Texas native rabbi’s catchphrase greeting is “Shalom, y’all.”
Almost a hundred neighborhood residents, including civic association and elected officials, collectively spoke out against a proposed Chabad boys’ school near the Rebbe’s Ohel in Cambria Heights, Queens, during a land-use hearing at Queens’ Borough Hall earlier this month.
One week after they were found carved into the stairs of a residence hall, the swastikas at New Jersey’s Rowan University reappeared.
Over 1,200 local residents attended a packed hearing Thursday night in Toms River, NJ, to voice their opinions over a controversial Chabad Jewish Center that is being run by its rabbi out of his private home.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Shaindel Mushka Wolpo, OBM, wife of Rabbi Yitzchok Zev Wolpo, OBM, and mother-in-law of the late Rov of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, OBM.
In commemoration of the Taanis today, JEM released a moving presentation from Asara B’Teves of 5725 (1965). Just a few short months after the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Chana, the Rebbe was Davening by the Amud.
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