A Chabad Shliach managed to provide a last-minute Passover seder to IDF soldiers in ‘the middle of nowhere,’ guarding the Jordanian border, reports The Jewish Press.
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From Moscow to eastern Siberia, and almost everywhere in between, Chabad Shluchim and Bochurim on Merkos Shlichus organized nearly 500 Pesach Sedorim in cities and towns across Russia, which were attended by tens of thousands of Jews hungry for a taste of authentic Judaism.
For the first time ever, the Chabad Jewish Center of Ulyanovsk, Russia, under the leadership of Rabbi Yossi Marozov, organized a Pre-Pesach camp. During the annual spring break, the Chabad Center gave Jewish parents the opportunity to take advantage of the week off school to give their Children a Jewish education.
At the funeral of Rav Shmuel Halevy Wosner, OBM, which took place Sunday in Bnei Brak, 113 people were injured due to a stampede – including a young man who died of the injuries he sustained after being crushed by the crowd.
A scathing indictment of the ‘Halachic Advisory Board’ during a speech by Mrs. Sima Yarmush, a survivor of sexual abuse at the hands of a Rabbi in her family’s Chabad House, has lead the board to release a statement explaining their policy regarding abuse.
Some 180 guests gathered to mark the holiday of Pesach in The Republic of China (Taiwan)’s luxurious Shangri-La hotel.
Erev Yom Tov we received the tragic news of the passing of Hagon Rav Shmuel HaLevi Wosner OBM, a renowned Posek of our generation and the author of many important Halachic publications. He was 101 years old.
In this newly-discovered film, the Rebbe can be seen distributing Matzah on Erev Pesach and davening Shachris on Chol Hamoed Pesach, 1962. Rabbi Aharon Goldstein, who was present, and whose father filmed these scenes, provides a running commentary.
In Kiev, Yud Alef Nissan, the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s birthday, wasn’t like every other day. Between Farbrengens and other commemorations, the Chief Rabbi and Head Chabad Shliach of Kiev, Rabbi Jonathan Binyamin Markovitch, was honored with a special diplomatic title.
Rabbi Pinchus Feldman, Regional Director of Chabad NSW in Australia, sells the Sydney Jewish community’s Chametz to The Honorable David Clarke MLC, NSW Parliamentary Secretary for Justice, in the presence of Rabbi Eli Feldman, Vice President of the Rabbinical Council of NSW.
Under slight rainfall Crown Heightsers set out this morning to fulfill the custom of Biur Chometz – the burning of Chometz. As in previous years a spot in front of 770 was designated as the central location, while many made little fires near their homes.
The Israeli youth who fabricated a missing person’s report, which prompted a massive manhunt by security forces near Chevron on Thursday, was “looking for attention,” the army’s top spokesperson said today.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Ada Herzog, OBM, a young mother and member of the Montreal Lubavitch community. She was 38 years old.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two unique photos of the Rebbe – speaking with a man at a Farbrengen and distributing Kos Shel Brocho after the conclusion of Yomtov.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, in honor of Pesach, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he underlines the importance of a Jewish name, and its fundamental role in our redemption from Mitzrayim. The Rebbe implies that having a Jewish surname is of significance as well. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
What time do we do Bedikas Chometz? When is the last time to eat Chometz? And burning Chometz? The Crown Heights Beis Din’s Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba compiled a list of times beginning tonight and going through the first days of Yom Tov.
“In truth I am too frail and would not come to study daily, but I feel that I owe a debt to the person whose heart is transplanted in my body,” Israel, a Tel Avivian nonagenarian, told Rabbi Shaul Reitzes, 34, who heads the senior adult education learning program, Tiferet Zkeinim Levi Yitzchak. This month marks thirty years since its inauguration.
