Four busloads of Elementary students from Beth Rivkah of Montreal visited 10 senior citizen centers and nursing homes, in honor of Yud Shvat. The children interacted with the residents in an amazing way and brought simcha and encouragement to them.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one overcome the feeling of being in exile and prepare for G-d to take us out of exile?
It was Motzoei Shabbos Yud Shvat. So I did not think it at all odd that I found myself explaining the concepts of “Chabad” and “Shliach” to a state trooper on the Garden State Parkway.
On Thursday evening, Tu Bishvat, Chabad of Niagara Falls hosted a lecture on the topic: Planting Seeds of Happiness, delivered by renowned lecturer and author Rabbi Lazer Gurkow.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva goes out of their way to make an event that shows the appreciation for the community’s support of the Yeshiva. This 2 day event promises to have something for everyone.
Avremi and Bracha (nee Nemes) Slavaticki
Unzer Shul, 1395 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Zalmi and Rochie (nee Hershkop) Negin
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Levi and Leah (nee Silberstein) Schapiro
1429 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mendy and Rivka (nee Minkowitz) Baron
369 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
We all encounter moments of inspiration that can lift us above the everyday mundane routine; moments of mystical expression that contain the potential to change our entire perspective. But instead of stopping to observe, we just keep moving, oblivious to the presence of heavenly splendor and grace.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch Jacobson, director of Chabad of Hunter College in Manhattan, will lead a discussion on the topic: Is Man a Tree?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe Farbrenging on Tu B’shvat, 1982.
The Garden Terrace Room at the New York Botanical Garden was filled to capacity this past Motzai Shabbos, Yud Shevat, January 11, 2014, as 300 supporters and friends gathered to celebrate Chabad of Riverdale’s 22nd anniversary. Among the distinguished guests were Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Councilman Andrew Cohen, and State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein.
Thousands of Bais Rivkah students, from Headstart through Seminary, gathered in 770 Thursday for a Kinus of Torah, Tefillah and Tzedaka celebrating the 100th Yahrtzeit of the school’s namesake, Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn, OBM.
Bar mitzvahs, and bat mitzvahs for girls, are key moments in the lives of those who practice Judaism. But for one Queens man, a bar mitzvah was elusive — for more than seven decades.
The U.S. officially refused in 2013 to return seven books from the so-called Schneerson Library, i.e., a collection of old Jewish books and manuscripts built by Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century, that were lent to it in 1994, said an attorney representing the Russian State Library and the Culture Ministry in a lawsuit against the U.S. Library of Congress at hearings at the Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday.
A pair of police officers driving around in an unmarked vehicle are handing out tickets to motorists not wearing a seatbelt in the Crown Heights area, a concerned neighborhood resident told CrownHeights.info.
The special day of Yud Shvat at the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami was an uplifting one, to say the least. After writing panim on Friday, each student was given his very own “Farbrengen in a Box.” Grape juice, snacks and a Shabbos Morning Chassidus packet awaited each child when he got home – a special Yud Shvat farbengen right out of a box.
Students of Rabbi Osdoba’s fourth grade Oholei Torah class proudly show the edible arts & crafts they made today in honor of Tu B’Shvat.
It was a busy day in New Jersey this past Thursday, Ches Shevat, as busloads of children from New Jersey, Philadelphia, Connecticut and Wilkes-Barre assembled together for the 6th annual Kinus HaChadorim. This was no ordinary Kinus, as its participants are all Tzeirei HaShluchim and Anash of small Jewish communities – children who daily epitomize dedication and commitment to Chassidishe Chinuch.
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