A generous donation from a Crown Heights landlord is enabling United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway to undergo a long awaited facelift. The Yeshiva is also in the process of going through dramatic changes in its education department.
Over 50 fathers and sons filled the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in Monsey last Motzei Shabbos for the first Avos U’banim program of the new year, and the sweet sounds of Torah learning filled the room.
Kids crowded the Chabad Jewish Community Center of Riverside, CA to learn how to make olive oil on Sunday, Nov. 10.
Public Advocate-elect Letitia James, Councilman David Greenfield and Councilman-elect Chaim Deutsch are offering a $1,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of any individuals responsible for a series of brutal, unprovoked “knockout” attacks in Crown Heights or other neighborhoods throughout Brooklyn.
Several elected officials, educators, and community leaders gathered in the hall of Lubavitcher Yeshiva this morning for a breakfast and roundtable conversation about youth and race in Crown Heights, in response to several random attacks against Jewish residents that occurred over the past couple of months.
In his latest episode of Jew-bel-ish, Chasidic comedian Mendy Pelin takes us behind the scenes of the sacrifice of Isaac.
In the southern Brazilian city of Curitiba, organizations such as Bnei Brith, Wizo, The Jewish Federation, Naamat Pioneiras and others were recruited to get involved in an impressive mission: To bring the light of Chanukah to every home in the city.
As the devastating death toll continues to rise following last week’s Typhoon Haiyan that flattened areas of the Philippines, two Sydney-based siblings have reached out to the Jewish community for help.
This was a real pickle, even for a Chabad rabbi. How do you tell congregants that for the next year-and-a-half—while their new building was being constructed—that services, classes and events will be held in a different venue, an unusual venue, a … well, a funeral home?
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hillel Gansburg, OBM, Shliach in Milan, Italy, at the age of 67.
Four city traffic-enforcement agents, with help from their union, have filed a suit against the city and the NYPD claiming they are being penalized if they don’t meet a 3-4 vehicle quota per shift.
Accompanied by a delegation, Mrs. Dorit Golender, the Israeli ambassador to Russia, visited last week the thriving Jewish community of Perm, Russia. She became closely acquainted with the community, its JCC and its educational institutes, under the leadership of Rabbi Zalman and Sarah Deutch.
Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi and Rabbi Pinchas Korf led a Farbrengen Wednesday night at Getzel’s Shul in honor of the 10th of Kislev, the day the Mitteler Rebbe was freed from prison in Czarist Russia.
Houston Rockets basketball star Omri Casspi drops some coins in Chabad of Houston’s ‘Charity Menorah,’ whose proceeds will go toward helping the community’s homebound seniors.
This morning several leaders of Crown Heights’ African-American community held a press conference on the corner of Kingston Ave. and Empire Blvd., decrying the random acts of violence against Jews that have been plaguing the neighborhood for the past several weeks.
Another random assault was perpetrated against a Jewish child in Crown Heights this morning. The perpetrators – a pair of females – have not been apprehended.
A Jewish-Aboriginal didgeridoo player was able to celebrate his bar mitzvah at Uluru recently thanks to the travelling rabbis of Chabad of Rural and Regional Australia (RARA).
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