As the average person’s attention continues to thin together with our ever-slimmer smart phones, engaging teens and adults in today’s fast forward world is becoming increasingly more difficult. And once great crowd pleasers like the songs ‘Oseh Shalom’ and ‘David Melech Yisroel’ – have become somewhat outdated, leaving many Shluchim baffled with the task of producing interactive High Holiday minyanim for their largest crowds of the year.
Russian and Israeli police plan to offer self-defense training courses to Russian rabbis after one was attacked late last month in Dagestan, a spokesman for the Russian Jewish Congress said Tuesday.
Former federal prosecutor Ken Thompson snagged two key endorsements in his quest for the Democratic nomination for Brooklyn district attorney. Thomson is seeking to unseat embattled incumbent Charles Hynes, who is facing his fist serious challenge since he was elected to office 24 years ago.
The New Republic ran a feature story about the lives of inmates in one of Russia’s harshest prisons, founded in the late 1930s as part of the infamous Gulag system. In a couple of photos, Lubavitcher bochurim can be seen putting on tefilin and sharing a few words with several Jewish prisoners.
It started off as a dream for Rabbi Mendy Deitsch 15 years ago, inched closer to reality five years later after a property transaction in Chandler, with a goal of opening shortly thereafter.
The much-watched court case challenging New York City’s regulation of bris milah has entered a new phase of litigation known as Discovery. This process, through which both sides request documents from the other, depositions of witnesses and other evidence relevant to the case, precedes the actual trial.
Campers and counselors at Camp Gan Israel-Montreal enjoyed an exciting and fun paintball shooting trip. The state-of-the-art grounds boasted a life-sized mock city and camouflage uniforms, enabling the players to mimic real-life urban battle.
A Quinnipiac University poll released on Tuesday shows Public Advocate Bill de Blasio leading the crowded field of Democratic candidates for mayor with 30% of the vote.
A new Chabad synagogue in the mold of 770 Eastern Parkway is being built in the Givah B neighborhood of Beitar Ilit, Israel.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Shlomo Kantrowitz, OBM, of New Haven, CT.
Happy young Shluchim at Camp Gan Israel in Sweden (AKA Tzeirei Hashluchim-Europe) pose in front of a beautiful Scandinavian waterfall during a learning class ‘runaway.’
Rabbi Binyomin Bitton, a renowned Talmudic scholar, teaches a four-part Talmud series on the subject of liability for damages and personal injury.
More than 600 people participated in the 9th Annual Jewish Summer Fest at the Jersey Shore, sponsored by Chabad at the Shore.
West Nile virus has been detected in infected mosquitoes in Brooklyn and is spreading rapidly, according to data provided by the New York City Department of Health.
Reb Binyomin Klein in his early days as the Rebbe’s secretary in the mid 1960s.
Ari Breslauer, a native of Bronx, N.Y., left Hebrew school at the age of 8 and never had a bar mitzvah. But he eventually made his way back to Jewish education. In fact, he just spent two weeks this summer touring Israel, exploring Jewish texts and discussing life’s issues with rabbis and their wives, along with nearly 40 college students and recent graduates from all over the world selected to participate in IsraeLinks, a project of Chabad on Campus International.
