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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
Mendy and Chaya (nee Latowicz) Lubin (Ventura beach, CA)
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.
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.
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?”
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.’
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.
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.
Sofya Nayer, a Jewish Resident of New Jersey, shares a fascinating story about her birth, and her journey back to her hometown of Berdichev in central Ukraine – which led to the rebuilding of the grave-site of the Tzadik R’ Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived in Paris today to pay his respects to the victims of the terrorist massacres at Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Chacher supermarket. De Blasio told Parisians that New Yorkers have “walked in the same shoes.”
Several hundred men and women attended a Siyum Harambam for the greater Monsey Jewish community at the Atrium Plaza.
7 years of Mayanot women gathered to celebrate the annual Gala Dinner. This special evening took place on the 24th of Tevet and several Mayanot alumni were in attendance for this year’s celebration.
The injunction levied last month against the Chabad Shluchim to George Washington University in D.C., which prevented them from engaging in any outreach activities within a 1-mile radius of the campus, was temporarily lifted by a judge last Friday. In a remarkable show of solidarity, over 100 students joined the Shluchim for Shabbos dinner that night.
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