Close to 50 members of the Riverdale Jewish community, dressed up Israeli-style, enjoyed delicious Israeli falafel and shwarma and freshly squeezed orange juice against the backdrop of the Kotel at this year’s Purim celebration at Chabad.
Research for a new book on the life of the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—has uncovered mid-19th century records in the Russian State Historical Archive in St. Petersburg that shed important light on a chapter of Chabad-Lubavitch history long clouded by the mists of time.
Take a moment and think about the precious children in our lives, our own kids, nieces and nephew, siblings, cousins and neighbors. Think about the horrible pain we all feel when we hear about the death of a child in our community.
The students of Beis Rivkah girls’ school of France, located in Yerres, a suburb of Paris, had the honor to greet Rabbi Leibel Groner, the Rebbe’s secretary, during a visit he made to the school while in the country.
Camp Log-N-Twig was founded in 1953 by the Neulight and Tener families, catering to Jewish children from across the northeastern United States. Nestled on 83 acres of wooded hills and lake lands in the Pocono Mountains, the camp flourished for decades and was sold to the New York UJA (United Jewish Appeal) Federation in 1998.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Hatomim Yosef Yitzchak Fail, OBM, of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was only 16 years old.
The Chabad Loft’s ‘Mobile Purim Party’ took Manhattan by storm this past Motzei Shabbos, the eve of Purim.
With all the uncertainty on the ground in Ukraine, over one hundred men, woman and children of the Jewish community in Sumy gathered in the city’s main synagogue for ‘Purim in the Air.’
A video slideshow of the internationally themed Purim party hosted by Chabad of Bel Air, California, under the leadership of Rabbi Chaim Mentz.
In an effort to uphold and strengthen our standards of yiddishkeit and chassidishkeit, a group of Chabad Rabbonim have come out with a Kol Koreh (public announcement) supporting a recent statement by Rabbi Ezra Schochet.
On this day 65 Years ago (16 Adar, 1949), the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe accepted citizenship from the United States in a special ceremony in his office.
Avi Gutlaizer (Crown Heights) and Rochel Greenbaum (Crown Heights/NMB, FL)
Frantic search efforts are still underway tonight, Tuesday, for missing father of seven Peretz Sontag of Monsey, NY. Search teams are reaching out to all able-bodied individuals to assist in the search efforts.
Sometime Monday night, somebody threw a concrete parking slab into a sliding glass door of the Chabad of East Boca, shattering the glass and breaking the concrete into pieces.
A day off of school can sometimes turn out to be quite boring – but that definitely was not the case for more than 100 past, present, and future Camp Emunah girls and their friends who joined together for the Camp Emunah Ice Skating Reunion yesterday, Shushan Purim.
Record numbers of people celebrated Purim with Chabad of Northeast London, Essex and Ilford, UK this year.
Hundreds of Jews in the western Ukrainian city of Zhitomir gathered to celebrate Purim with Chabad, led by chief rabbi of the city Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm.
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