The English Montreal School Board is citing a 16-year-old law to explain why extracurricular Jewish clubs at three of its high schools aren’t being permitted this fall after having run for as long as five years.
The Creative Soul, an organization that fuses Chasidic Judaism and contemporary art, hosted an exhibition titled “Pure Joy” as part of its annual celebration of creativity on the holiday of Sukkos.
Rabbi Avi Zwiebel has resorted to pedal power to make the Jewish holiday of Sukkot more accessible and green.
Yisroel Sternbach (Crown Heights) and Mushka Gurevitch (Chicago, IL)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]
Chabad of The Woodlands, a suburb of Houston, Texas, celebrated the High Holidays this month in a new home.
New York City’s annual report card says the number of residents killed in traffic accidents plunged considerably over the last year.
Rabbi Tzvi and Chanie Backman of the Rohr Chabad House at Tufts University in Massachusetts work furiously to act as the Jewish role models that students on campus may be missing. Attending college is the first time many students spend away from the comfort of their home communities. To fill that void for Jewish students on the Hill, the Chabad House claims to offer a home away from home.
Yehuda and Chana (nee Rosen) Joffre (Crown Heights)
The Crown Heights Jewish Community Council has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the Schach picked up.
The Jewish community of North Andover, Massachusetts and several surrounding towns now have their own synagogue.
Yossi Feiner (Los Angeles, CA) and Brocha Dalfin (Boro Park, Brooklyn)
L’Chaim Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
The Raitport Family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and brother, Reb Eliyahu, OBM; at 1480 Carroll St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.] until Friday afternoon, and at 1739 49th St. in Borough Park until Monday morning. Shacharis – 8:00 Mincha – Shkia Maariv – Tzeis At the […]
Students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Otwock, fleeing the Nazis after the invasion of Poland in WWII, arrive in Kobe, Japan. They would later make their way to Shanghai, China and remain there for the duration of the war. Can you identify those in the photo?
Over Yomtov he stood for hours on the Eastern Parkway’s median across from 770 and patiently painted the red-bricked headquarters of Chabad-Lubavitch. Now he has returned to 770 to peddle his work of art.
Only in the alternative reality of Michael Chabon’s fanciful best-selling novel “The Yiddish Policeman’s Union” do three million Jews, rescued from the Holocaust, call Alaska home. The (real-life) reality is that only about 6,000 Jews live in the entire state. As I embarked on a recent trip up north, I didn’t expect to find much of a Jewish presence.
Israel’s prime minister declared Tuesday that his country will never allow Iran to get nuclear weapons, even if it has to act alone, and he dismissed the Iranian president’s “charm offensive” as a ruse to get relief from sanctions.
Police are investigating the theft of $25,800 worth of furniture taken from a garage owned by the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center of Columbus, Ohio.
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