Writing on the New York Times’ City Room Blog, Brooklyn resident Ellie Levi shared a moment she experienced while shopping in a Manhattan bodega last week: The vendor gave her a discount for dressing modestly.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Esther Teitelbaum, the wife of Reb Michoel Teitelbaum OBM, co-founder of Mossad Chinuch Oholei Torah. She passed away Shabbos afternoon at the age of 96. Levaya times added
Two years ago, The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held its first ever “Family Hakofos” on Simchas Torah. So moved by that wonderful event the Chein family sought to dedicate a Torah in honor of their son to the Friendship Circle. The Siyum will take place this Sunday.
Some 500 people gathered on the University of Central Florida campus in Orlando, Fla., on Tuesday night for a candle-light vigil held for recently murdered journalist Steven Sotloff. News of his beheading at the hands of the ISIS terror group in Iraq was released on Sept. 2.
As dozens of Bochurim dashed off into the Kingston Avenue subway station for their weekly Mivtzoim trip, a rare sight caught their attention – a Chuppah in front of 770 on a Friday at noon.
Alex Clare is an internationally renowned singer-songwriter, with millions of fans all over the globe. But two and a half years ago, he was down to his last pennies and unable to pay his rent. Because he insisted on keeping Shabbos, the record label he signed up with fired him, and his career seemed doomed.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Klein will lead a discussion on the topic – A Time to Love, a Time to Hate: Does the Mitzvah of Ahavas Yisroel apply to Reshoim?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe looking on during Hagbah, circa early 1960’s.
Yaacov Leib and Rivka (nee Gabay) Ringo (Montreal, Canada)
Shmuly and Zeldy (nee Duchman) Engel (Crown Heights)
Have you ever met a person, whose life is a shambles, musing over how it all got that way? “Where have I gone wrong,” is a mantra familiar to every psychiatrist, psychologist, clergyman or plain good friend, who is kind enough to lend an ear.
Yisroel and Chanie (nee Silman) Mogilevsky (Crown Heights)
Meir and Mushka (nee Hecht) Deitsch (New Haven, CT)
Aleph Academy, the only Jewish preschool in the Sierra-Nevada region, is the first private early childhood program in Nevada to become an implementation site for the national TACSEI (Technical Assistance Center on Social Emotional Development) Program.
This year, close to 6,000 people joined together in order to walk and raise not only crucial funds for next year’s programs at Friendship Circle, but also to raise awareness for children with special needs.
Meme Fridman (Milan, Italy) and Leah Tauber (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he describes the betrayal which Jewish socialists in Ukraine suffered on the part of their non-Jewish compatriots in the aftermath of the Russian civil war. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
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