Hundreds of community members and guests participated this Sunday in the festive inauguration of a new Torah scroll, the first ever to be donated to the new grand Synagogue of Novosibirsk, Russia that had opened only half a year ago.
Due to the overwhelming response and demand from the community, Reb Yoel Kahn agreed to present a weekly webcast on topics that are timely and relevant. This week’s topic is titled ‘Restraining the Love‘. Update: Video fixed
Rabbi Dovber Grunblatt‘s 7th grade class at Cheder at the Ohel was honored to have Rabbi Shmuel Horowitz farher them on his own sefer, Shevach Yekor, on the laws of Tefilin and other things related to the age of Bar-Mitzvah.
Chances are you are a tiny breadcrumb trying to make a life in New York – the most expensive city in the world. You did all the right things but you failed: You snuck in to the house of a nice Jewish family, you got a free ride for a couple of months but suddenly there’s bad news, really bad news: Passover is coming.
Today at the National Action Network’s annual convention, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio praised notorious anti-Semite and race baiter Al Sharpton by saying this: ”I just want everyone to know: I am proud to stand with Rev. Sharpton, To borrow a phrase from our youth, — he’s the real thing.”
Mrs. Chana Sharfstein of Crown Heights wrote the following poem, which she titled ‘My Pure Daughter,’ as a eulogy for her dear daughter Zlata Esther (“Zlati”), OBM, who passed away this past Friday at the age of 53.
Last Thursday evening, close to a thousands members of the Jewish community of greater Atlanta gathered at the Chabad Center of North Fulton to mark the Shloshim of beloved Shlucha Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, who tragically passed away one month ago.
It’s past 11 o’clock at night at the Chabad House in Kathmandu, Nepal, and a calm breeze passes through the Jewish center’s courtyard. Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz is wrapping up a Torah class he has been giving to 30 Israelis, and a few more sit about chatting. Although a serene quietness envelopes this Himalayan Chabad House, it is less than a week before Passover and Lifshitz still does not have all the supplies necessary to ensure that Kathmandu’s iconic Seder – along with three others held in other parts of the country – can take place.
Close to 200 members of the Folsom, CA Jewish community gathered Sunday afternoon to celebrate the completion of a brand new Sefer Torah, which will make its home at the local Chabad House, led by Rabbi Yossi and Goldie Grossbaum.
Last Thursday some 120 people gathered in the hall of Chovevei Torah for a special event: BizTalk 14. The latest installment of Crown Heights Young Entrepreneur’s series of networking events, BizTalk gave community members the chance to learn from fourteen different successful business-men and women as well as to network with each other.
Five Mitzvah Tanks paraded through the streets of Montreal in honor of Yud Alef Nissan, marking the Rebbe’s 112th birthday.
Darkness enveloped the five members of the Hike 4 Friendship team as they sat together in the Grand Canyon’s Cave of the Domes. It was Day Two of the hike, and inside the cave was a group of twenty five Boy Scouts. Having all turned off their flashlights, a unique serenity surrounded them deep in the dry cave.
Adam, a young Jewish man, recently graduated university with a major in Philosophy. Yet through all his studies the thing he longed for always seemed slightly out of reach. In search for what he couldn’t find in the pedagogical world of theories he grabbed a backpack and headed East for Rishikesh, India, and sought out the advice of a renowned yogi.
Rabbi Yochanan Gordon, Shliach to Australia’s Tasmanian Island, puts on Tefilin with a Catholic priest whom he discovered is actually Jewish.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Mazal Tov Benhiyoun (Albo) OBM, long time resident of Crown Heights and direct descendent of Rabbi Yosef Albo, the Baal Ha-lkarim. She passed away Tuesday afternoon at the age of 99.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Acharei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the appropriate reaction to an overwhelming world?
Hersh and Fraidy (nee Kagan) Loschak (Glassboro, NJ)
