On Taanis Esther one of the customs of the day is to give Machtzis Hashekel before Mincha. In 770 there were many choices, including coins the Rebbe used and coins that the Frierdiker Rebbe had given for this very purpose.
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The Rebbe wipes away a tear at his mother’s funeral, Tishrei, 1964.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yisroel Menachem Nochum ben Esther, who is undergoing a difficult medical procedure.
Jewish.tv and JEM present an hour-and-half-long excerpt from a 1972 recording of the Rebbe’s Purim farbrengen. The Rebbe tackles the enigmatic essence of the Purim story, and explains the real miracle we are celebrating. Drawing life lessons from how in those dark times, a generation of assimilating Jews were found worthy in G-d’s eyes.
The 16 lucky winners of the annual Purim raffle, the proceeds of which benefit the NCFJE’s Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah in Crown Heights, have been announced.
Avi Mogilevsky (Toronto, Canada) and Mushky (bas R’ Eli) Rosen (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
The OK has released a statement alerting the Jewish community in the New York area that Melanie Chocolate, whose package bears the OK symbol, is in fact not certified by the OK.
A Pan Kloli on behalf of all the Rebbe’s Chasidim was read at the Ohel today, in the wake of repeated tragedies that have recently occurred in the Chabad community. Video added
Congregation Agudas Yisroel, located at 456 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], invites all members of the community to hear the reading of the Megilliah this Purim.
For years, hip congregants at a popular Brooklyn Hasidic synagogue packed a raucous Purim party. The annual fete was the biggest event on Chevra Ahavas Yisroel’s social calendar–until this year.
Hundreds of men, women and children from the Chabad community in Crown Heights and around the world gathered in front of 770 Eastern Parkway this morning to pay their last respects to a beloved Shlucha and mother of young children, Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, who passed away suddenly and tragically late Tuesday night.
Every morning at the break of dawn, a group of Chasidim gathers together at Congregation Tiferes Menachem (AKA Re’im Ahuvim) in Crown Heights to study a Maamer of the Rebbe.
This fantastic new edition of the ‘Elevate Series’ explores the deeper meaning of yet another holiday – Purim. The film is orated by two Shluchim and educators from South Florida: Rabbi Chay Amar, Shliach in Golden Beach, and Rabbi Yakov Garfinkel, Program Director of Lubavitch Educational Center.
Students of the Chaya Aydel Seminary in Hallendale Beach, FL bring Shalach Monos and Purim joy, along with their principal Rabbi Yossy Lebovics, to residents of the Pembroke Park Retirement Home.
Following the rash of recent tragedies that has befallen the Chabad community, an emergency meeting was held between the members of Agudas Chasidei Chabad. A worldwide prayer gathering will take place at the Ohel followed by the reading of a Pan Kloli in the name of all Chabad Chassidim.
‘Tis the season when some are forced to explain the historically-uninformed why dressing up in blackface is something that just plain shouldn’t be done.
When even Russian policemen had to pass security checks to enter the Sochi Winter Olympics, Rabbi Berel Lazar was waved in without ever showing his ID.
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