This afternoon, Shomrim received a call from a young Jewish woman who said an African-American man in his early 30s wearing a jacket emblazoned with the word ‘security’ exposed himself to her near the corner of East New York and Kingston Avenues.
Rabbi Avrohom Rimler, Shliach to Plattsburgh in northern New York, was interviewed by the local chapter of NBC News after the city approved his request to display a public Menorah downtown.
The four young winners of the “Power of Jewish Children” flew in to New York for the 34th annual gala Tzivos Hashem dinner on Monday, December 8, at The Grand Prospect Hall and shared their achievement with 400 attendees and thousands of viewers online.
Anshei Lubavitch of Greater Miami sponsored this year’s Yud Tes Kislev celebration, which was held at The Capt. Hyman P. Galbut Jewish Learning Center-Chabad in Miami Beach.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has brought a whole new meaning to the notion of kindling the Chanukah flames.
Mendel and Gitty Meyers (Buffalo, NY)
Last Chanukah, someone stole the menorah from the Boca Raton Chabad Student Center that for three years lit up the campus of Lynn University during Hanukkah. It has never been recovered.
Marking the Yom Tov of Yud Tes Kislev, Beis Shmuel hosted a Farbrengen with noted Mashpiah Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi in the second floor ballroom of the JCM.
Marking Yud Tes Kislev, the Kehilah of Empire Shteibel hosted a Farbrengen along with a Siyum and Chlukas Hashas in honor of the auspicious day.
The mother of Levi Rosenblatt, the 22-year-old rabbinical student who was stabbed in an attack inside 770, arrived this evening on a flight from Israel. She has since been reunited with her son, who is on the mend in Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeishev. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the real power of the Jewish People?
Jesse Kaufman was approaching his bar mitzvah this past August at the Chabad Jewish Center of Monroeville, Pa., and while he was prepared in most ways, he was missing one thing: a meaningful project.
Leshana Tovah Belimud HaChasidus ve Darchei HaChasidus, Tikosaivu VeTichosaimu!
Today, Yud Tes Kislev, “The Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus,” marks 216 years since the release of the Alter Rebbe, R. Schneur Zalman of Liadi, founder of Chasidus Chabad, from prison in the year 5559 (1798). This year also marks 202 years since the Alter Rebbe’s Histalkus. In honor of this auspicious day, which is referred to by Chasidim as the “Holiday of Holidays,” Farbrengens are being held around the world!
Poland’s constitutional court on Wednesday overturned a ban on the ritual slaughter of animals which had affected the Jewish and Muslim communities and eliminated a $620 million a year industry.
Yonathan Souid, the 23-year-old Jewish college student from France who was arrested last month for scaling the Brooklyn Bridge at the end of his trip to New York for a Chabad-sponsored Shabbaton, was sentenced yesterday to 240 hours of community service.
Yudi and Blumi (new Bloy) Ashkenazi (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
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