Video: When Joy Is Complete
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ki Tavo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: When is one’s joy complete?
Joel Witriol with his family as he is promoted to Sergeant on Sept. 5, 2014.
NYPD Gets First Chasidic Sergeant
With his parents in attendance, Joel Witriol, who back in 2006 became the NYPD’s first Hasidic officer, beamed with pride as he was promoted to sergeant during a Friday ceremony.
New Engagement!
Yisroel Jacobs (Holland/London) and Nechama Berger (London)
From Days Gone By: Chabad Youth in 1930s Brooklyn
Two young Lubavitcher boys play together in Brooklyn in the late 1930s. Can you identify them? And can you identify the Brooklyn landmark behind them?
Toldos Aharon Rebbe Visits Chabad Kollel
The Toldos Aharon Rebbe, Rabbi Dovid Kahan, visited the Chabad Kollel of Buenos Aires, Argentina while on a visit to the country.
The home of Reb Yerachmiel Kugel (inset right) and his daughter Roza (inset left), where the Frierdiker Rebbe stayed after his release from prison.
Last Eyewitness of Previous Rebbe’s Liberation Passes
This past Sunday, Mrs. Rosa Melamed passed away in Israel at the age of 93. She was the daughter of Reb Yerachmiel Kugel, OBM, who was the Shochet of Kostroma, and she was the last living witness of the Chag Hageulah of Yud Beis Tammuz.
Rabbi Zalman Lipskier leading Havdalah at Emory University. He says students can get lost at a large school, and that they have told him: "Chabad is like an anchor."
Atlanta Jewish Community Sees 400% Growth
It’s been 30 years since Rabbi Yossi and Dassie New first arrived in Atlanta from New York. At the time, the rabbi noted that it was “an up-and-coming city” with about 30,000 Jews.
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Eli Chaim and Chava Leah (nee Sufrin) Rosha (London, UK)
Crown Heights School Blends Moses with Montessori
Except for a simple banner hanging loosely over the entrance, nothing stands out about the modest brownstone on Eastern Parkway. But inside, the converted early-20th century home, is a bevy of activity.
Times of Israel
Info to Be Menachem Avel Reb Lazer Teitelbaum
Reb Lazer Teitelbaum is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, OBM, at 675 Empire Blvd. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] apt. #1E, until Friday morning. Shacharis – 8:45am Mincha – 6:50pm Maariv – 7:50pm At the family’s request, […]
Chicagoans Enjoy ‘A Taste of Kosher’
Chicago supermarket chain Jewel-Osco, which features one of the largest Kosher offerings in the Midwest, held its “A Taste of Kosher Food” fair this past Sunday. The event was a tremendous success, with over 1,000 people attending to sample Kosher foods displayed by over 35 different Kosher companies from around the U.S. and Israel.
Chabad at the Shore Welcomes a New Torah
This past Sunday Chabad at the Shore welcomed a New Torah Scroll to it’s Chabad House and Shul in Ventnor, NJ.
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Shmuel and Shterny Teichman (Crown Heights)
Community Attends Shloshim for Reb Yosef Raksin HYD
Family, Friends and community members gathered to mark the Shloshim – thirty days since the passing of Reb Yosef Raksin who was gunned down Shabbos morning as he was walking to Shul in N. Miami Beach, FL.
1146 President Street. Photo Google Maps.
“Murder the Jew Tenant” Scrawled in Apartment Building
A white tenant recently moved into a mostly black apartment building on President Street in Crown Heights, not long after threatening hate graffiti was found scrawled on a hallway wall.
Miracle of Jewish Education Continues in Former USSR
Thousands of Jewish children from across the former Soviet Union rejoiced this week as the new school year opened successfully on the 1st of September at the FJC’s ‘Or Avner’ network of Jewish kindergartens and day schools in countries such as: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Georgia and Azerbaijan.
Mendel Minkowicz Campaigns for Rashi’s Campus
Young Mendel Minkowicz, whose mother Rashi passed away tragically and suddenly last winter, talks about the 18/18 campaign he initiated for a new Chabad Center in Alpheretta, Georgia, to be named Rashi’s Campus in his mother’s memory.
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