A friend of the woman who fought off a knife-wielding terrorist who entered her Ra’anana home on Saturday recounted how Dikla Dvir confronted the Palestinian man and shoved him out of her living-room into the clutches of police officers.
While for many Jewish children Chanukah means vacation or wonderlands and Dreidel houses, the little Shluchim in Sumy, Ukraine, had a different Chanukah experience.
Shmuly Lotman (Milwaukee, WI) and Bluma Pinson (Crown Heights)
OK Kosher Certification recently treated its employees and children to annual Chanukah parties in its in-house party lounge.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Heber will lead a discussion on the topic – Bitochon and Simcha.
For the second year in its history, the Australian National Menorah was lit in the Parliament of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, on the eight day of Chanukah, the festival of lights. The event was organized by Chabad-ACT.
Fourteen people were mildly poisoned by a toxic substance that was applied to the keypad of an electronic lock of a synagogue south of Paris.
“To stay or to go?” was the question that puzzled organizers of the International CTeen Shabbaton ever since the conclusion of last year’s Shabbaton.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
Levi Ainsworth (Melbourne, Australia) and Toby Bartfield (Coral Springs, FL)
Yisroel Dovid Pekkar (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chaya Faigy Levilev (Crown Heights)
Anash and Bochurim gathered at Beis Rivka Campus Chomesh for the annual Central Hey Teves Farbrengen. One highlight of the evening was a riveting speech by Nat Lewin, one of the lawyers who helped secure a victory in the Seforim case.
Shmulie and Raizy (nee Gottleib) Margolin (Cleavland, OH)
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, as we read in this week’s Parsha about the descent of Yaakov to Mitzrayim and the beginning of our first golus, we present an in-depth letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the “why” of personal challenges, as well as the communal challenges of our people, as experienced in golus. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
One of the Rebbes instructions marking Hey Teves was the encouragement to buy Seforim. Honoring this Kehot has been hosting a sale, marking down Seforim by as much as 50% off. Hundreds have been taking advantage in person, with thousands around the world placing their orders by phone or online.
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street held today their annual Hey Teves Seforim fare. There were over 100 titles available ranging from classic children’s books to new stories to books in Yiddish and Hebrew and a large assortment of Seforim.
Celebrating a chassideshe Yom Tov in a most appropriate manner was the goal of the PTA, as they held their 12th annual Hey Teves Book Fair.
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