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.
In honor of the Alter Rebbe’s 202nd yahrzeit on Chof Dalet Teves, and first anniversary of the acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied webcast series, the Meaningful Life Center has launched the MyLife Essay Contest, and will award $10,000 to the winning essay which applies a concept or idea in Chassidus to solve a contemporary life issue or challenge. Contest details can be found online at www.meaningfullife.com/mylife/contest.
New York State Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, who has been one of the most powerful men in Albany for more than two decades, was arrested Thursday.
It is hard to believe that nearly a year has passed since Rashi Minkowitz, shlucha, mother, daughter and wife has passed away. The shock and horror of her premature passing left a deep imprint on us all. We can each remember exactly where we stood, when we heard the tragic news. At that time, there was an international outpouring of grief; a sincere desire to do something, indeed anything, in her memory.
Camp L’man Achai recently organized a meaningful shabbaton in Miami, Florida. The Shabbaton, which was held on Shabbos Parshas Va’era, gave campers from all around Florida the opportunity to truly enjoy an authentic and heartwarming Shabbos experience together with their friends and staff from summer camp.
Yesterday, Rabbi Zalman Heber, Shliach in Tacoma, Washington, was honored to open the Washington State Senate floor with a prayer invocation.
It was another perfect Shabbos and ski getaway for the vibrant young Bnei Aliya. It was set in beautiful home upstate NY, surrounded by nature, delicious Shabbos meals, no cell phones and an amazing group of guys. It was the perfect setting to reconnect and experience Shabbos.
Refoel and Chaya Mushka (nee Sufrin) Harkham (Sydney, Australia)
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.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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