In the true spirit of community, over 1,500 people of all ages gathered under sunny skies for the seventh annual Walk4Friends on May 3rd at Vonage Corporate Center in Holmdel, NJ. The goal of the walk was to raise funds and awareness for the Friendship Circle, a program that provides friendship for children with special needs, but it accomplished much more than its primary mission.
In the borough that’s outpacing Manhattan in new construction projects, Crown Heights and its southern neighbor, Prospect-Lefferts Gardens, are seeing a particularly visible building boom.
Over 300 Jewish men, women and children of all ages and backgrounds attended an upbeat, informal Lag BaOmer event hosted by Chabad of Rockland County.
When Tyler Scholl downloaded Chabad.org’s new “Omer Counter” app just before Passover, he knew he found a winner. The app helps users fulfill the biblical commandment to count the 49 days between the Jewish people’s departure from Egypt on Passover and their receiving the Torah at Mount Sinai on Shavuot.
Suffering its second major earthquake in less than a month, a powerful 7.3 magnitude quake shook Nepal today, with initial reports of dozens of deaths, thousands of injuries and significant damage in the eastern parts of the beleaguered nation.
Teenagers from across South Florida got together for a Lag BaOmer event, featuring a bonfire, fireworks, pizza and words of inspiration from their area Shluchim.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Behar – Bechukosai. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we invest in our future?
The President of Israel arrived yesterday in Berlin to participate in a series of events commemorating 50 years of political ties between Germany and Israel.
For most of his childhood, 12-year-old Joel Pennington was unique. He was the only child in his Houston, Texas, neighborhood who was deaf, and one of the only Jewish students in the special school for the deaf that he attended in Austin.
On Lag Ba’omer, thousands of Jewish children marched through Buenos Aires to Abasto, the biggest shopping mall in Argentina.
On Friday, the eve of May 9th, 70 years after the Soviet Union defeated Nazi Germany in World War II, the Jewish community of Moscow, Russia, gathered in the Red Square to celebrate ‘Victory Day.’
A spokesman for Magen David Adom emergency medical services Monday said that a 19-year-old Jewish man was stabbed in Mishor Adumim, a neighborhood located near a West Bank settlement.
A team from JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project just returned from a 5-day trip to Manchester, England, where they interviewed 17 individuals.
The Keren Avraham Eliezer Camp Fund – in memory of Hatomim Avremi Goldman, HYD – has released the names of the 80+ lucky winners of its Chinese auction, which was held yesterday, Sunday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva-Crown St.
29 years ago, Rabbi Anchelle Perl, director of Chabad of Mineola, Long Island, made a promise to a dying Jewish woman that he would make a Bar Mitzvah for her 2-year-old son, Mathew. 11 years later, when the time came to fulfill his promise, Rabbi Perl discovered that Mathew had been baptized, and no Bar Mitzvah would be forthcoming.
Areleh and Sarah (nee Risenberg) Eichler (Crown Heights)
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