After two successful summers, Camp Gan Israel Bat Mitzvah Experience has undergone a transformation and a name change. Meet Camp Gan Israel in the Poconos, a full-fledged overnight camp for girls not currently participating in an immersive daily Jewish experience.
In this week’s Living Torah, we have a fascinating clip where we get to see the sacrifice of Chasidim in Russia, and the Rebbe’s hands on involvement and direction, with first person testimony and footage smuggled out under the noses of the soviets.
Professor Reuven Feuerstein, a world-renowned clinical and developmental cognitive psychologist who received the Israel Prize in 1992, passed away on April 29 in Jerusalem. He was 93 years old.
The oldest Chabad House in northern California, Chabad of Berkeley, has moved into a new home after three years in a leased building. It is sharing its new temporary home with the local chapter of the Friendship Circle.
The Jewish Ukrainian mayor of Kharkov, who was shot Monday in an assassination attempt, is conscious and recovering.
Zalmy and Rochee (nee Goldberg) Levertov
645 Lefferts Ave. Apt. #1E [corner Albany Ave.]
Mordechai and Chana Lightstone
1715 President St. [between Utica and Rochester Aves.]
Gershon and Malka (nee Perelman) Akerman
813 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Schneur Zalman and Nechama (nee Schmerling) Glick
715 Eastern Pkwy. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Eliyahu Moshe and Gittal (Cassandra) Topp
770 Lefferts Ave. Apt B2L [between Troy and Schenectady Aves.]
Avigdor and Sima Simmonds
509 Crown St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Schochet will lead a discussion on the topic, Bein Adam Lamokom; Bein Adam Lachaveiro (Between Man and G-d; Between Man and His Fellow).
Mendel Minkowicz, son of Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, met with Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) at the foot of the U.S. Capitol building yesterday, while on a graduation trip to Washington, DC with his classmates.
Two garages on Carroll Street collapsed into the back yard of a Crown Street house after a 20 foot retention wall failed and came crumbling down early Friday morning. Also: Video of firefighters rescuing a cat that was trapped under the rubble.
“Oh Rabbi, it’s time you got real! She may not be Jewish by your narrow (Halachic) standards, but she has a true Jewish heart; she is more Jewish than any Jewish woman I’ve ever met and that includes my own mother. And just so you know, she makes the meanest chicken soup… That surely counts for something, don’t you think?” I can’t imagine that there is a Rabbi in today’s day and age that has not come across this heartfelt argument.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a talk to women on erev Rosh Hashanah, 1970.
A Chabad rabbi extracted an apology from anti-Semites on bikes who verbally assaulted him as he was walking to shul in Los Angeles on Wednesday.
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 ‘Transforming the Self‘.
More than 200 new speed cameras are coming to New York City and Long Island, after the state’s Senate voted to authorize them on Wednesday, two days after the Assembly did.
