On Wednesday night, Hundreds attended the funeral of Chaya Zisel Braun, the three-month-old baby who was killed earlier in the day when a terrorist rammed his vehicle into her family as they disembarked from the Jerusalem Light Rail.
Moscow’s largest Yeshiva, which stands adjacent to the Marina Roscha Synagogue, celebrated the inauguration of their new spacious state-of-the-art building on Chol Hamoed Sukkos.
After it was banned by leading Rabbonim last year amid a community uproar, the ‘Call of the Shofar’ – labeled a cult by experts in the field – seems to be attempting a comeback in the Chabad community under a new name: From Galut to Geula.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Noach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Can one stray so far that he/she cannot return?
Chabad Houses are going pink. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, dedicated to raising awareness of the disease and many Chabad centers from the Bronx, New York to Austin, Texas, will be joining the campaign, hosting Pink Shabbats at college campuses across the United States.
This past Tuesday, Oct 22, 2014, Connecticut Governor Dannel Malloy met with community activists Moti Sandman and Zev Sandman at the home of the former in New Haven, CT. They discussed a range of topics, focusing on the needs of the Greater Connecticut Jewish Community.
Shortly before Yom Kippur, Bryan Turkel, a Jewish student in his senior year at Claremont McKenna College—one of a consortium of five undergraduate liberal-arts schools and two graduate schools in Southern California called the Claremont Colleges—found the mezuzah on his doorframe torn down. The previous week, Turkel’s dorm room had been broken into, and an Israeli flag he had displayed prominently had been stolen.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday, October 23, for a Hindu holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A three-month-old infant was killed this afternoon, and seven others injured, when a car driven by an Arab man crashed into a light rail station in Jerusalem, in what is believed to be a terror attack.
Chabad comedian Moshe Kravitsky, star of The Moshe Show, walked the streets of Crown Heights on Kosher Day, September 14th, 2014, to find out what is “Kosher” all about… and other things.
Chabad of Meron, under the leadership of Rabbi Y.Y. Halperin, organized ‘second Hakofos’ at the gravesite of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai on Motzei Yomtov, with hundreds of Jews of all stripes in attendance.
Ultra-Orthodox men and women were accused of causing over an hour delay on a Delta flight Monday night at JFK airport, when they de-boarded the plane rather than sit next to members of the opposite gender.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Bracha Miriam bas Chana for a complete and speedy refuah shlaima.
Preparations for the Chabad girls Inter-High School Convention are well underway.
Rabbi Hillel Pevzner was known to wear many hats. For much of the 60-plus years that the late rabbi lived in France, he was a teacher of an advanced yeshivah class, a day-school administrator, a sought-after authority on Jewish law and a spiritual leader of a historic congregation in Paris—all while raising six children with his wife, Echka.
At the conclusion of a painful week, during which four Israeli hikers lost their lives in a sudden snowstorm in the Annapurna Mountains, Shluchim to Nepal Rabbi Chezky and Mrs. Chani Lifshiz were summoned to the Israeli embassy in the capital city of Kathmandu.
In a race replete with political intrigue and legal drama, Rabbi Aryeh Stern has been elected as the Chief Ashkenazic Rabbi of Jerusalem, and will serve alongside Rabbi Shlomo Amar, the Holy City’s new Chief Sephardic Rabbi.
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