The colorful postcard marketing the 6th Annual CTeen Shabbaton in New York showcased a “PhotoShopped” image of the shabbaton and Jewish superstar Alex Clare advertised on Manhattan’s jumbotrons and billboards. Never would the 1,000 shabbaton participants from over 110 communities around the world have dreamt that this would be a reality at the climax of the three-day shabbaton during the Havdallah ceremony in Times Square.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Harav Hachosid Rabbi Aryeh Leib Avrohom Yaakov Scheiner, OBM, of Brighton, Massachusetts. He was an educator and was devoted to the Rebbe’s Mivtzoim.
Israeli Deputy Minister of Education Avi Wortzman visited a unique school affiliated with the Chabad Lubavitch movement last Tuesday, and came away highly impressed.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Tzvi Ostrozynski, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. He was 60 years old. Update: Levaya and Shiva times added.
Nachman Rivkin (Tampa, FL) and Mussi Vogel (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Tuesday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm
A portable Tanya printing press was on hand at the ‘Million Man Atzeres’ against the planned IDF draft of Yeshiva students that took place in Jerusalem yesterday.
Four unidentified Arab men savagely beat a French Jew in a Paris Metro train, a watchdog organization reported.
On Thursday, February 13, Chabad of West Hempstead hosted their 5th annual dinner at The Garden City Hotel in Long Island.
Most of the millions of people who cross the Brooklyn Bridge every year have seen the Ari Halberstam Memorial Ramp signs, but many may not know who Ari Halberstam was, or why Mayor Rudolph Guiliani installed those signs in 1995.
It was early 1948 and Jewish united forces in the British Mandate of Palestine mobilized against enemy armies trying to wash them from the region. The Jewish community worldwide took note. Among them was a young Rabbinical Student in Brooklyn, NY, Tzvi Hirsh Gansbourg. He had arrived in the States less than a year earlier – from the British Mandate of Palestine — to study alongside his Rabbi, the then leader of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, Rabbi Yosef Y. Schneerson.
Almost all of the new Torah at Chabad Jewish Center in Temecula, California was handwritten with a quill by a specially trained scribe in Jerusalem. But the inspiration for the text is the synagogue’s director, Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz.
Frigid outside temperatures didn’t deter more than 100 people from celebrating with Chabad Lubavitch of Boulder as they broke ground on their new Jewish Learning Center Sunday afternoon.
Continuing the tradition of his late grandfather Rabbi Sholom Dov Ber Raskin, OBM, Rabbi Dovid Nissan Jacobs of Crown Heights performs a bris on his newborn son Sholom Dov Ber this past Friday at Beis Levi Yitzchok.
Thanks to hundreds of contributions, a total of $10,119 was went into the Camp Emunah Scholarship Fund’s split the pot raffle. The lucky winner was drawn in front of the camera and was posted on YouTube late Sunday night. Winner in the Extended Article.
Shmuel Levine (Crown Heights) and Esther Lelenthal (Flatbush, NY)
Sunday night was an evening to remember for the hundreds who gathered for a special concert at the Brooklyn School of Music in Crown Heights.
Meir New (Atlanta, GA) and Sara Chazanow (Manalapan, NJ)
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