A new Sefer Torah, which was commissioned by the Shluchim to Central Africa, was completed and dedicated in the city of Kinshasa, Congo home of Chabad of Central Africa.
In newly discovered footage, President Zalman Shazar visits the Rebbe in the winter of 1973. The meeting in the Rebbe’s office lasted for over five hours.
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended tomorrow, Saturday, January 24, to facilitate snow removal.
The National Weather Service says the New York metro area should expect a mixed bag of light snow, sleet and freezing rain due to a winter storm system moving up the Eastern seaboard this weekend.
Family, friends and members of the community gathered this morning in front of 770 Eastern Parkway to accompany 1-year-old Benjy Lieberman, OBM, who tragically passed away earlier this week while vacationing with his family, to his final resting place.
New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority voted on Thursday to increase subway and bus fares on the nation’s largest mass transit system in March.
At the request of his young daughters, a Lubavitcher jewelry designer from Paris took up the challenge of creating a portrait of the Rebbe out of Lego blocks. After two months of hard work by him and his daughters, they created this remarkable work of art.
This Shabbos at the Besht, noted author and lecturer Rabbi Chaim Miller will lead a discussion on the topic – Minhagim: Where do they come from? And do I have to keep them all?
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe on the topic of Hasogas Gvul – encroachment on another’s turf – and whether this concept applies to the field of education.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe at a Lag Ba’omer Parade in 1976.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Doba Nisnevitch OBM, matriarch of a large family and longtime Crown Heights resident. She is the wife of Reb Zeev Volf OBM.
Meir Blizinsky (Crown Heights) and Mushky Borisute (Crown Heights)
Twice a year, brothers Nechemya and Yair Ledaiev, members of the Lubavitch community in France, travel to far-flung places across the globe to help isolated Jews fulfill the Mitzvah of Mezuzah. This week, while in the western Ukrainian city of Vinnitza, they were helping a Jewish family affix a Mezuzah when they learned that their son would be celebrating his 13th birthday the following day.
Yosef Yitzchok Gershovitz (Crown Heights) and Yakova Messing (Monsey, NY)
Over 400 Oholei Torah staff-members and their spouses filled the institution’s main ballroom this past Motzei Shabbos for a gala banquet and Melave Malka in their honor.
TRAGEDY: With great sadness, shock and deep pain we inform you of the tragic and untimely passing of Zisa Bentzion (Benjy) Leiberman OBM, a 1 year old toddler who was upstate with his family on winter vacation. UPDATE: The Levaya will take place Friday morning.
A 13-year-old Jewish boy was maced near Paris in what a watchdog group said was an anti-Semitic assault by three unidentified minors.
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