Rabbi Berel Shemtov, head Shliach of Michigan, won a small victory in a state appeals court last Thursday, when the judges overturned a lower court’s dismissal of his lawsuit against the Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, led by Rabbi Elimelech Silberberg. The lawsuit has been reinstated and can now go forward.
In an unexpected move, the Israeli Knesset voted this morning to dedicate a session to discussing the life and legacy of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, on the day marking 20 years since his passing.
A town in Guatemala has asked its Jewish residents to register with the municipality and warned that they face expulsion, reports the JTA. Approximately 30 Jews live in San Juan La Laguna, in the state of Solola, in a population of under 10,000.
A unique ritual was performed in the town of Novomoskovsk on the outskirts of Moscow last week, with the consecration of a new Jewish cemetery on a plot of land donated for the purpose by a local philanthropist.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, May 29, for a Christian holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
What do 5 girls from California, Florida, New York and Arizona have in common? They are all sisters of children with special needs who are growing up on Shlichus, and over Lag Ba’omer weekend they got a chance to meet each other for the first time.
Over 1,800 students, from pre-school all the way through Shiur Daled Zal, stood in front of the Oholei Torah educational complex for a group portrait this morning.
CNN’s Nic Robertson reports on the Jewish community’s fears after a deadly shooting spree in Brussels, Belgium, interviewing local Chabad Shliach Rabbi Menachem Margolin.
Rabbi Yaakov and Rebbetzen Zlata Zuber (standing third and fourth from the right) at a dinner benefiting the Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Boston, circa late 1940s. Rabbi Zuber, a devout Lubavitcher Chosid, escaped the Soviets and the Nazis, only to be brutally beaten to death on the streets of Boston in 1953.
Ellen Resnick, a resident of a suburban town in the northeast, relates her experience walking into a Chabad House for the first time, and how it differed from the stereotypes about Chasidic Jews that she assumed to be true since her youth.
The tension between religious Jews and the Israel Defense Force has been hotly debated and fiercely criticized in the media during the past few months – both in Israel and abroad. But for one community of observant Jews in New York, you’d be hard pressed to find it.
What’s the next big idea to come out of Crown Heights? On June 18th, members of the Crown Heights Jewish community will have a chance to pitch their start-up ventures to a panel of experienced entrepreneurs in CHYE’s second annual “shark-tank” style event.
ALIYA-Girls, a learning and social club for young women in Crown Heights, hosted its second annual Lag Ba’omer gathering on Motzei Shabbos with a hit performance by the ‘Bulletproof Stockings’ Band.
Chabad-Lubavitch of Milan sprang into action last weekend, when thousands of Israelis poured into their city as spectators of the European basketball championships.
Swagbucks, a Los Angeles-based web-rewards company founded by Lubavitcher Yosef Gorowitz, announced that it has raised $60 million in venture capital from investment firms amid exponential growth over the past year. The company also announced that it has hired a new and experienced CEO.
Yisroel Levertov (Phoenix, AZ) and Rosie Markowitz (Crown Heights)
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