Video: Creating Peace
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Matos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one create peace?
West Nile Virus Detected in NYC Mosquitoes
For the first time this season, the Health Department has detected West Nile virus in New York City mosquitoes.
From Days Gone By: Gan Yisroel-Parksville, 1983
The bunk of counselor Mendy Herson (today director of Chabad of Basking Ridge, NJ) poses for a group portrait at Camp Gan Yisroel in Parksville, NY, summer of 1983. Can you identify any of the campers?
Photos: Visiting Day in Gan Israel, Montreal
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Montreal, Canada were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds despite the rainy weather.
De Blasio’s Promise to Cut Unnecessary Tickets Falling Short
Records show that New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s promise to dramatically cut the number of unnecessary tickets given out to New Yorkers is falling a bit short, and that the total number of summonses issued over the first five months of 2014 is up from 2013.
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Picture of the Day: First Tefilin in 89 Years
During a recent conference for European rabbis, Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar greeted a 102-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor, who informed him that he had not put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah in 1926! The chief rabbi immediately helped the man put on Tefilin and say a prayer, which the man did with tears in his eyes.
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Israel Suffers First Fatality Due to Hamas Projectile
Two Israelis were wounded following a barrage of rocket and mortar fire, one of whom succumbed to his wounds. The victim, Dror Chanin, 37, was at the Erez Crossing delivering food and cheer to soldiers when a barrage of rockets and mortars rained down and critically wounding him.
Photos: Visiting Day at CGI-Florida
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Lake Worth, Florida were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
Photos: Benny Friedman Rocks YSP
Last night, on the eve of the fast of 17 Tammuz and the three week period of mourning during which music is prohibited, singing star Benny Friedman performed a lively concert for the students of the Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
Baby Girl!
Yoav and Lital (nee Zeluff) Ben Yoav (London, UK)
Ashkelon Teen Hit by Shrapnel Begins Recovery
With Hamas rockets still being hurled at Israel for the seventh straight day, Israelis found something to cheer about as Yarin Levy, a 16-year-old boy who was seriously injured yesterday in a rocket attack in Ashkelon regained consciousness this morning.
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Report: Palestinian Has Jew Kicked Off Airplane
A Jewish woman doctor from New York is claiming “hate crime” after an eavesdropping Palestinian woman had her booted from her flight home from Palm Beach.
Picture of the Day: Tefilin for Israel
The campers of Mechane Mamosh (AKA Lubavitcher Yeshiva Day Camp) went Friday to do Mivtza Tefilin with fellow Jews for the sake of the security of Eretz Yisroel.
Op-Ed: Kristallnacht in Realtime
Paris, the city of light: the city of love. The city of quaint, the city of chic. The city of Kristallnacht. Only no German this time: Arabic, and Arabic-infused French. And technically it’s not nacht, it’s in broad daylight. And no black-and-white reel-to-reel; it’s as full-colored as the thingamajig you’re reading this on.
by Shimon H. Posner
Newborn Boy Named After Slain Israeli Teenagers
This morning in Crown Heights’ Frankel Shul, the newborn son of Yankee and Binah Teitelbaum was welcomed into the covenant of Avraham Avinu. Emotions ran high as the baby’s new name was announced: Eyal Gilad Naftali.
Manchester United for Yud Beis Tammuz
On Thursday night, Rabbi Yosef Samuels, Shliach of the Rebbe to Milwaukee, farbrenged with Anash and Tmimim in Manchester, UK in honor of Yud Beis Tammuz, the day the Frierdiker Rebbe was liberated from Soviet prison.
Picture of the Day: Reaching Out to Every Last Jew
Chabad of RARA (Rural and Regional Australia) volunteer rabbis pose with Director Rabbi Saul Spigler before a big week of travels, during which they will reach out to isolated Jews scattered throughout the smallest continent.
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