On a cold night in Downtown Boston, steps from the marathon finish line where months earlier explosions had rocked the city, a symbol of hope and liberty was lit. Chabad of Boston held their second annual Menorah lighting.
For the very first time in Nice, France, over 1,200 people from the Jewish community and visitors to the French Riviera joined together at a local ice skating rink to celebrate the 4th night of Chanukah.
Yisroel and Nechama Dina (nee Stern) Zilberstrom
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Motty and Raizy (nee Konikov) Rosenfeld
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Pictures from the L’chaim of Levi Gourarie (Sydney, Australia) and Chaya Herbst (Melbourne, Australia), which took place Thursday night at Chovevei Torah in Crown Heights.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Zalman Abraham will lead a discussion on the topic: Aliba D’nafshei – Chasidus as therapy to transform your life.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe welcoming a guest to 770 after Davening in the upstairs Shul.
Vast cosmic secrets appear couched in the dramatic events surrounding the deathbed blessings bestowed upon Yosef’s two sons Menashe and Ephraim by our saintly forebear Yaakov. The cryptic narrative seems to alert the reader to uncanny Divine insight on the part of Yaakov, the purveyor of the blessings, regarding the future of the two emerging tribes and the nation of Israel as a whole.
This Sunday, more than 2,000 people attended a historical event concluding a series of over 60 events that were attended by nearly 60,000 people – marking the 120th birthday of the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Russia.
A New Jersey mother who helped shape Valley Chabad’s Friendship Circle, a program that aims to provide companionship for special needs children, revisited the program nearly a decade later to tell her own story of parenting a disabled child.
On Sunday, Hei Teves/December 8th, hundreds of thousands of people across the Tri-State area tuned in to the Chanukah Telethon of Chabad of Mineola, Long Island. This annual broadcast is a beacon of ‘Yiddishkeit,’ spreading the warmth of Torah and tradition while demonstrating the most essential quality of Judaism – helping those in need.
A 12 year old West Hempstead girl who bowed out of a National Table Tennis tournament last winter because it conflicted with Shabbos, took first place honors at this year’s Jewish Kids Got Talent competition, beating out eight other finalists in the annual contest.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Asara B’Teves for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
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It was the last night of Chanukah, December 26, 1992. We had just lit the last Chanukah candle and my father was driving me to the airport. As we drove he told me, “Always remember that on the 8th night of Chanukah you left South Africa to begin a new life in Israel.”
Jewish students at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire learned about the love of the Land of Israel from Golani fighter Ziv Yitzhaki, who was wounded in the second Lebanon war.
Incoming Brooklyn Councilwoman Laurie Cumbo, who set off a firestorm last week with a Facebook post that blamed some “knockout game” attacks on tensions between blacks and Jews, once invited a known race ranter to speak at her museum.
Greg Nathan (Sydney, Australia) and Cassy Atlas (Sydney, Australia)
Snow began to fall in Jerusalem Thursday morning, in has been described as the heaviest December storm since 1953. The winter weather system intensified across the country since it began Tuesday night.
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