The desire to be more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly is beginning to see some daylight at Chabad centers.
Yossi and Zlata (nee Davidson) Margolin (Crown Heights)
When Shani, a Crown Heights mother with an inquisitive and active 4.5 year old, was looking for ways to keep her son busy and stimulated after school, she came up empty handed.
At United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway, the Shmuel Shrage Middos Program put a new twist on Mishnayos Baal Peh by organizing a menu system for rewards.
Build and Destroy? These magical words held a group of young shluchim captivated as they participated in the launch event of Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe’s SibClix program during the Kinus HaShluchim. The program was hosted by Rabbi Levi Raichik, Yaldei’s Sibling Coordinator.
Itche Kadoozy, Chabad.org’s beloved puppet rabbi, interviews students and staff at the Yeshiva Schools of Pittsburgh as they mark 70 years since the institution’s founding.
The news of the recent spate of random attacks against Jewish residents in Crown Heights is spreading through the country like wildfire, and several media outlets have arrived in Crown Heights to report at the scene of the crimes.
Chasidic rock star Lazer Lloyd’s new single, “Ha’am Sheli” (My People), has gone viral. Early in October, Lloyd released the song on YouTube as part of the Jewish Unity Music Project, which he created to spread awareness of the conflicts within different groups in Judaism. The music video now has more than half a million views, and the number is increasing.
Last winter, Rabbi Moshe Weiss, a rabbi and entrepreneur from St. Paul, MN, appeared on Shark Tank, an ABC reality TV show where participants pitch their business ideas and investment opportunities to a team of entrepreneurs and business executives.
“I never fold my kids clean laundry. Just dump them all in their drawers.” “My five year old was very excited to show me the drawing she had made in school. It was of me lying in bed, looking miserable, with a basin at my side. I’m three months pregnant. Not sure what her teacher thinks.” “I think I just sent my daughter to school in her brother’s shirt.”
Welcome to the Global Jewish Shuk: a marketplace of dialogue and debate! The Jewish Federations of North America General Assembly is simply a whirlwind of just that: discussion, debate, dialogue, ideas (big & small) and a full on who’s-who of the “organized” Jewish world.
It hasn’t happened in more than a century and won’t again for another 79,000 years. No, it’s not a rare convergence of planets or some other wildly unique astronomical event … it’s Thanksgivukah!
Shua and Tova (nee Shallman) Altman (Monsey, NY)
Every Friday, 23-year-old Yonasan Waller hops aboard an oversized RV outfitted with colorful signs and loudspeakers. Dubbed a “mitzvah tank,” the vehicle—stocked with folding tables, Torah literature, tefillin and Shabbatcandles—serves as a mobile command center for Waller and a dozen of his fellow yeshivah students, who drive from Brooklyn to Manhattan every week. Their goal along the way is to spread Jewish awareness, and encourage Jewish men and women to perform mitzvahs.
Hirshy and Sheina (nee Lewis) Raskin (Crown Heights)
A fire at a factory billed as the world’s biggest maker of knishes has created nationwide shock and oy for those who can’t seem to find the Jewish treats anywhere.
Sunday evening a young Jewish man fell victim to a violent assault by a gang of 10 thugs, which CrownHeights.info reported was part of a sick new ‘game’ called ‘knockout.’ We have now obtained video of the attack, which was captured on Post-Mark-It’s surveillance system.
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