Even as central Kiev burst into chaos this week, with bloodshed between protesters and police continuing to escalate, Chabad-Lubavitch of Kiev has been maintaining its level of activity and has even grown its staff.
It was meant to be another event saluting Chabad emissaries in Israel, but this is a salute they will never forget. Captain Ziv Shilon, an IDF officer who was critically injured when a bomb went off on the Gaza border and became the symbol of fighters’ heroism, was the guest of honor at the ceremony and saluted the hundreds of emissaries – and mainly the late Lubavitcher Rebbe – with his prosthetic left arm.
I was listening to the radio recently when I heard the President express his opinion that marijuana is not that bad – “no worse than alcohol”. Add to that the fact that some States have legalized marijuana use, although to varying degrees, and we have a budding recipe for disaster.
CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Mendel and Yocheved Scheiman will be joining the Rebbe’s army of Shluchim in the state of Illinois. They will be opening a new Chabad center at Southern Illinois University, located in Carbondale.
A growing number of countries have restricted ritual slaughter under the guise of animal welfare.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayakhel. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is the Jewish work ethic?
Judy and Morty Mayberg fondly remember when 11 yeshivah boys landed in the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in the fall of 1973. They were shluchim, personal emissaries of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and their goal was to found a yeshivah on the balmy beaches of a city better known for relaxation than rigorous study.
It takes less than 10 minutes, a passport and the help of a friendly librarian to hold in your hands one of thousands of religious texts at the heart of an international legal battle between Russia and America.
Hungarian Jewish leaders say they have found 103 Torah scrolls taken from Hungary during the Holocaust in a Russian library.
New York City Councilman David Greenfield (D-Borough Park) is proposing a new law regarding snow removal for commercial and residential properties to protect pedestrians from accidents related to unshoveled sidewalks.
A nasty row has broken out within the UKIP (United Kingdom Independence Party) over an EP (European Parliament) candidate’s refusal to shake women’s hands due to his religious beliefs.
At about 6′ 6″ tall, some say Rabbi Zevi Raskin, director of Chabad in Cyprus, is the tallest Shliach in the world. But he is dwarfed while standing next to Jewish-America basketball player of Balkan origin Robert Rothbart, who towers above him at almost 7′ 2″.
Back in the days when cars featured a bulky chrome fender, a common bumper sticker summed up our irritation with sitting in traffic: “I’d rather be sailing.”
Avi (ben R’ Dovid) Feldman (Crown Heights) and Mushky Namdar (Gothenburg, Sweden)
L’chaim will be Wednesday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
The first Jewish day-care in Canberra, Australia’s Capital Territory, opened this week, a first step in creating the “Jewish infrastructure” needed to attract more Jewish families to the region while servicing the 1200-strong local community.
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