Schoolchildren throughout Jerusalem awoke Wednesday morning to an announcement more common for North America than for the Jewish state: snow day, no school. A storm flowing from Eastern Europe is drubbing northern and central Israel with heavy winds and snow.
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The Jewish community of University City in S. Diego, CA, has for many years lived without the ability to leave their homes on Shabbos with a baby carriage or a Talis, due to the lack of an Eruv. Thanks to a 14-year campaign, the local Chabad Center has finally obtained the permits necessary, and construction has already begun on the project.
With snow having fallen on both New York City and Jerusalem, both 770 Eastern Parkway and its replica in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo are covered by a blanket of fresh snow.
Mendy (ben Eli) Barber (Crown Heights) and Sara (bas Dovid Mendel) Morozow (Crown Heights)
With temperatures expected to be dangerously cold beginning Tuesday through Thursday, Mayor de Blasio today issued an update on the frigid temperatures, urging New Yorkers to take steps to protect themselves and help others who may be at increased risk of health problems.
The photo of a rabbi reaching through the prison bars embracing the inmate on the other side, begs for background.
At least 12 people died in an attack on the Paris headquarters of the Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine.
With sadness we inform you of the passing Tuesday of Mrs. Leba Chaya Chesney, OBM.
Yisroel and Chaya Mushka (nee Goldin) Pekar (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shemos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What keeps us in balance?
A children’s rally is held at 770-Lubavitch World Headquarters, circa early 1970s. Can you identify anyone in the photo? [Enlarged photo in extended article.]
Burlington, the largest city in Vermont, was named as the “best college town in America” by Travel and Leisure last year. The city’s numerous bike paths, coffee shops and music venues together with, arguably, the best skiing on the East Coast just a half hour drive away, are clear incentives for prospective students. It is a town that prides itself on its progressive and liberal attitudes—an environment that might seem unlikely for the flourishing and vibrant campus Chabad House that has become a favorite for Jewish students at University of Vermont.
When some New York City public buses announce they’re planning to turn, they won’t just signal – they’ll speak.
The parents who lost two young daughters last year in a tragic pesticide poisoning have welcomed a new baby boy.
A person’s most important years are his childhood. These are the years in which he builds a foundation and a base upon which his entire life will be lived. The goal of a new program, titled ‘Routes,’ which is being run by Levi Druin, an Oholei Torah Alumnus, is to give all talmidim of Oholei Torah’s 7th Grade, a meaningful, exciting, and personal way to grow and strengthen their own roots in Yiddishkeit.
As the northeast plunges into a deep freeze, Crown Heights got its first snow of the season, with the streets and cars getting a light dusting.
