For years, as more observant Jews have decided to call Philadelphia’s Center City home, there’s been talk of constructing a mikvah downtown. But it had never seemed much more than talk — until now.
Csanád Szegedi, a former leader of the ultra-nationalist and anti-Semitic Hungarian Jobbik party who last year learnt that he has Jewish ancestry, is converting to Judaism with the assistance of Chabad rabbis in Budapest, the German newspaper ‘Welt am Sonntag’ reports.
A local rabbi has urged West Milford, NJ municipal officials to wrap up their ongoing dialogue on the town’s holiday display policy.
Bill de Blasio may be working already on his victory speech, as well as fundraising for his reelection campaign in 2017, but the mayoral front-runner’s, who promised a change of the Bloomberg era, is already picking up a bit of the current mayor’s grumpy attitude when it comes to the press.
Have you ever wished to have a “no-holds-barred” discussion with a Rabbi and get answers to all of your burning questions? This is your chance – the popular “Crossfire!” is back with an all-new panel!
Yesterday evening at about 7:30pm a bochur was down Albany Ave. near the corner of President St. while speaking on his cell phone. Suddenly, he was jumped by two African-American males, one of whom snatched the phone out of his hand.
The first new Torah scroll for the 2-month-old Pollack Chabad Center for Jewish Life in Chandler, Arizona was inducted for use Sunday.
Zalman Lever (Sydney Australia) and Chaya Brafman (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Thursday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.] at 9:00pm.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah.
The 71st Precinct has released an advisory in connection to President Barrack Obama’s visit to Crown Heights this Friday, October 25.
The US State Department has offered Russia to settle the dispute over the Schneerson library “by exchange,” Chabad’s lawyer Nathan Lewin said in court.
On Sunday, October 13, nearly 450 people joined The Stuart I. Raskas Friendship Circle of Illinois for their fifth annual Walk4Friendship. Teen volunteers, children with special needs, their families, and the community at large enjoyed an afternoon of solidarity to promote inclusion and to raise funds and awareness for children with special needs.
A police officer takes a quick break from his patrol to attend to his spiritual needs outside Oholei Torah on Eastern Parkway.
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, trusted secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, granted an interview to the Chabad community in California, revealing many details about his work in the Mazkirus for the first time ever.
Old timers in Chabad and the larger frum community remember all too well the 1991 Crown Heights riots and a New York City that suffered from high crime, unsafe streets and an unresponsive mayor’s office. To them, the transformation of New York under Giuliani and Bloomberg, from an ungovernable Gotham to becoming the safest large city in the country, is truly remarkable.
Rabbi Elazar Green is just like a college student. He’s up all hours of the night.
This winter, the long hours of Motzei Shabbos will no longer be a drag for young women with special needs. For the first time ever, the Teens & Twenties division of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn will be hosting weekly Zumba classes geared specifically for these young woman.
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