Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Simcha Felder on ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show. Felder offered a detailed view of the controversy surrounding the Education Investment Tax Credit, the East Ramapo School District oversight proposal and his crime-fighting efforts in the legislature and personally.
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This afternoon, at around 12:30pm, a Jewish-owned home on President Street between Schenectady and Utica Avenues was robbed at gunpoint by three African-American men who knocked at the door.
Over 200 people came together for an evening of awareness and inclusion for individuals with special needs at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights this past Sunday. The event, organized by the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, featured speakers who implored the crowd to look at everyone in our community as equal, even if we perceive them as being “different.”
The day after 30-year-old Nadiv Kehaty died, his friends gathered at the Crown Heights synagogue he helped found to decide how to help his wife and four young children.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rachamim (Oscar) Piperno, OBM, a longtime member of the Chabad community in Los Angeles, CA. He was in his mid 50s.
Rabbi Shlomo Besser, an activist dedicated to preserving the Jewish cemeteries of Eastern Europe, succeeded his father as the rabbi of Congregation Bnei Israel Chaim on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his parents’ home in July of 2014.
When the County of Madera, California, placed the Putney Ranch Camp on auction last September, they were worried it would fall into the hands of a building developer. So when the 87-acre property acre property was purchased by the Camp Gan Israel West, locals breathed a sigh of relief.
Despite assurances by the newly appointed state Assembly speaker that he would support the Education Investment Tax Credit just two weeks ago, the proposed budget released today by the Assembly fails to include the bill which would bring desperately needed tuition relief to parents of yeshiva students statewide.
For the 6th consecutive year, Chamah International and Lubavitch Youth Organization organized the National Russian Shabbaton for over 1,000 participants from the Russian American Jewish community in Stamford, Connecticut, at the newly renovated luxurious Crowne Plaza Stamford on February 20th-22nd.
A teen driver who fled police after officers smelled pot coming from his car fatally struck a 21-year-old pedestrian in Crown Heights early Monday morning, according to an NYPD report.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Avrohom Chanoch Glitzenstein, OBM, a renowned author, educator and veteran member of the Chabad community in Jerusalem. He was 86 years old.
Hundreds of Jewish teenagers in South Florida enjoyed a night filled with excitement and fun at ‘Purim on Ice,’ a project of the Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayakhel-Pikudei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Why do we need a Rebbe?
Thousands of Jewish children across Florida enjoyed the traveling Purim Puppet Theater, a project of the Chabad Youth Network of Florida, directed by Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick.
Mrs. Rivka Kehaty, the mother of Nadiv Kehaty OBM wrote a heartfelt letter of thanks during the Shiva for her son. “I dont know if this is an appropriate thing to do during shiva… but I could not let everything being done for Nadiv’s wife and children go by with silence from us.” Read the full letter in the Extended Article.
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