The deadly terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India happened five years ago this week. Indians, Americans and Jews were all targeted in the assault. But amid the carnage of that night, a story of hope and survival emerged, involving a Jewish child and his Indian nanny, who saved the boy during the attack and has stayed by his side ever since.
With Chanukah beginning this Wednesday evening, Nov. 27, preparations are at a high pitch at Chabad-Lubavitch centers to reach an estimated 8 million people in more than 80 countries through public menorah-lightings large and small, in addition to the distribution of 2.5 million holiday guides, 700,000 menorahs—oversize public ones and those affixed to car roofs for parades—and some 30 million Chanukah candles.
Rofeh Cholim Cancer Society is hosting their annual auction drawing and entertainment evening, beginning at 7:00pm and running through 1:00am. The evening will feature a long list of Jewish superstars, who have dedicated this evening on behalf of the several hundred cancer-stricken families helped each year by RCCS.
A woman was violently assaulted by a deranged man on Carroll Street this afternoon. A group of bystanders sprang into action – including the wife of a Shomrim Volunteer – and shielded the woman until Shomrim arrived and subdued the man.
Over 220 people, including men, women and children, packed into the Giffnock Shul hall in Glasgow, Scotland Thursday night, Yud Tes Kislev, for the Lubavitch of Scotland pre-Chanukah Concert with 8th Day.
The Chabad House in Colaba, Mumbai, one of the six targets of the bloody terror attacks on November 26, 2013, will reinvent itself in less than six months as a restaurant, a community hall and a museum to the memory of those killed by terrorists at this Jewish outreach center.
Police arrested a middle-eastern looking man outside 770 this afternoon, alert passersby noticed he was taking photos of ‘Jewish’ buildings on Eastern Parkway and around Crown Heights and called the police.
A large banner by the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn adorns the front of the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights, wishing everyone and their loved ones a “Happy Chanukah!”
The New York Boys Choir performs their new hit single, ‘Miracle,’ released just in time for Chanukah.
Rabbi Shaya Shafit, a Mohel in Russia, just performed his 5,774th Bris Milah, the same as the number of years since creation.
Gunshots rang out on Carroll Street as men were returning home from Shul after Shabbos two weeks ago. One man was struck twice by bullets and was rushed to the hospital. This morning, police announced the arrest of the suspected shooter.
During the Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen of the year 5727 (1966), which was on a Friday, the Rebbe referred to it as “The Long Yud Tes Kislev.” The Rebbe advised that chassidim continue to commemorate the Yomtov for days after.
Pictures from the wedding of Yossi Mellul and Goldi Dray, which took place in the hall of the Beis Chaya Mushka girls’ school in Paris, France.
This large Menorah was erected last night by Rabbi Yanki and Esty Jacobs, Shluchim to the south of Amsterdam, in the city’s prestigious Financial District.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thoughts on Chanukah, titled ‘Go Beyond Your Knishes!’
A crowded warehouse north of downtown Houston is packed with holiday floats for the annual thanksgiving day parade, but there’s one there that is very different. It’s the pride and joy of Rabbi Mendy Traxler.
On November 11, 2013, 354 menorah sets were shipped to various destinations around the world. From California to Florida, from Nigeria all the way to Belgium, these packages were shipped to the students of the Jewish Online School who are participating for the first time ever in a global mission: “Light It Up.”
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