Baby Girl!
Refoel and Chaya Mushka (nee Sufrin) Harkham (Sydney, Australia)
Here’s My Story: How Important Is It to You?
Mr. Bentzion Rader was a practicing chartered accountant in London, England for almost forty years. He enjoyed a personal relationship with the Rebbe from 1966, and was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home three times between 2007 and 2010.
Video: How Can We Bring the Redemption Closer?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Bo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we bring the redemption closer?
Teen Wanted for String of Armed Robberies in Crown Heights
Police have identified and are searching for a 16-year-old suspect in a string of robberies – some of them at gunpoint – in Crown Heights.
Anti-Rezoning Activists’ Flyers Have Anti-Semitic Undertones
The Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), an organization opposed to any and all efforts to rezone areas in Crown Heights for further development, has recently distributed flyers rallying members of the African-American community to disrupt an upcoming Community Board-9 meeting at which the rezoning proposal will be voted on.
Deaf, But Not Excluded
A Jewish overnight summer camp may be an experience most Jewish kids have come to expect, but it was with the opening last summer of a program created for deaf Jewish children–the only such program in the world–that they too, will have the same benefit. Now two Israeli deaf children will also get to join, promising to make summer 2015 the experience of a lifetime for them.
L’chaim: Drizin – David
Pictures from the L’chaim of Moshe Drizin (Crown Heights) and Racheli David (Staten Island, NY), which took place Sunday night at Oihel Nosson in Crown Heights.
Video: ‘Ashreinu’ over Israeli Airwaves
This past Motzei Shabbos, Chabad singer Nemuel Harouche was hosted on the “Live Motzei Shabbos” radio program on the Kol Chai station in Israel, where he sang a lively rendition of the classic Lubavitcher Niggun “Ashreinu.”
Civil-War Era Jewish Cemetery in Nevada Restored
In 1864, The Eureka Hebrew Society purchased a plot of ground on Cedar Hill, in Virginia City, Nevada, for a cemetery. The cemetery served Virginia City’s Jewish community for years, but has since fallen into serious disrepair, decades of overgrowth concealing tombstones.
Palestinian Terrorist Stabs 12 on Tel Aviv Bus
A Palestinian terrorist stabbed twelve passengers on a Tel Aviv bus this morning, Wednesday. The 23-year-old man from the West Bank city of Tulkarem was later shot in the leg by police after he got off the bus. He is under arrest and is being questioned.
Baby Boy!
Mendy and Chaya (nee Latowicz) Lubin (Ventura beach, CA)
Impromptu Chavrusas Celebrate Milestone
It happened on Shabbas Yud Shevat, 2008, in the main Shul of 770 Eastern Parkway. Rabbi Yosef Katzman was talking with a friend and noticed a new face in the crowd. Rabbi Katzman introduced himself and Gershon Felberbaum from Monsey replied with a warm handshake. After a few brief words, Rabbi Katzman asked Gershon if he wanted to learn Chassidus together.
New York’s French Jews Remember Fallen Brethren
The community of French-speaking Jews in New York gathered Sunday at the Lincoln Square synagogue to remember, honor and mourn the seventeen victims of the recent terror attacks in Paris, at the Charlie Hebdo magazine headquarters and the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket.
JLI Course Teaches Parenting for Raising Healthy Children
A parenting course that looks to Jewish values that have stood the test of time may surprise participants as it cuts the sacrosanct “what are my rights” centered perspective down to size. In its place, The Art of Parenting course will consider the question Judaism teaches us to ask: “What is my obligation?”
College Students Get Taste of Yeshiva at Winter Retreat
Rich B. came from Texas. Shlomo G. came from Montreal. Jack B. arrived all the way from Johannesburg, South Africa. They joined more than a dozen others in Hadar Hatorah’s recent Winter ‘Yeshivaction.’
Jewbellish The News: Jewish Satirist Responds to Paris Terror
In the latest episode of Jewbellish The News, comedian Mendy Pellin gives his take on the Paris terror attacks that targeted a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket.
Photos, Videos: Israeli Chief Rabbi Visits West Coast
Israel’s chief Rabbi Dovid Lau just completed an extensive visit in California. During the trip, he visited many Chabad Mosdos, and was interviewed at public town hall meetings in Agoura, Yorba Linda and S. Diego.
