Four hundred people gathered in New York on Monday to honor the legendary Bielski brothers, the partisan leaders who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
With the lighting of candles just ahead of sunset on Friday, around 60 members of the Jewish community marked the beginning of Shabbos at the Chabad Jewish Discovery Centre in Mississauga, Ontario.
Thousands of Shluchim and Anash flocked to Chovevei Torah tonight to celebrate the completion of four Sifrei Torah, donated by Mr. Hilel (Leonardo) Farkas of Santiago, Chile.
A New York delivery man was been awarded almost $1 million in damages by a jury after detailing the anti-Semitic torment he suffered by three supervisors in the workplace.
Hundreds of community members and guests participated this Sunday in the festive inauguration of a new Torah scroll that was donated by six community members and introduced into the Grand Choral Synagogue of St. Petersburg, Russia.
Jewish actress Lisa Kudrow opened up about her past experiences with anti-Semitism in a recent interview with the Saturday Evening Post. In the same interview, Kudrow talks about the ‘Bar-Mitzvah’ her son received from two Lubavitchers in a mall.
Thirty-three miles into the Arctic Circle, in the village of Kotzebue, Alaska, where more than 70 percent of the people are Eskimo, the local elementary school had guests one day: two Chabad shluchim (emissaries) from Anchorage, some 550 miles away.
Registration is underway in the Jewish Children’s Museum for the thousands of Shluchim who are pouring into Crown Heights for the annual Kinus, which will feature seminars, workshops and gatherings, and culminate this coming Sunday with the grand banquet.
770 Eastern Parkway was the address thousands turned to in search of wisdom, comfort, and a miracle. Just in time for this year’s Kinus, JEM released a film featuring eight first-hand accounts of miraculous healing in the wake of the Rebbe’s blessings.
CrownHeights.info got an exclusive sneak peak at the four new Sefrei Torah being prepared for the Grand Siyum, which will take place tonight. Rabbi Moshe Klein of Hasofer was commissioned to write these new Torahs, which are being dedicated to The Rebbe ‘who sent out Shluchim to care of Jews worldwide.’ The entire community is invited to attend!
With less than 24 hours to go until the start of the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the lights were on last nigh in the office of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, despite the late hour.
A large crowd of ladies and teen girls filled the elegant Rushmore Estate Ballroom of Highland Millls, NY this past Sunday to enjoy a beautiful evening and benefit Chabad’s Youth Scholarship Fund. Gorgeous, candlelit tables and elaborate Viennese dessert displays created an atmosphere of elegance and beauty.
Next week, just after the Kinus Hashluchim, Taglit-Birthright Israel: Mayanot, a division of Jerusalem’s Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies, will be hosting its first ever Staff Engagement Seminar. The seminar, due to incorporate an array of speakers and topics, will take place at Empire Shtiebel on Monday, November 4th.
On Rosh Chodesh Kislev 5744 (1983) the then relatively small number of Shluchim got together, with the encouragement of the Rebbe, for the first ever Kinus Hashluchim. Presented here is a photo gallery of that gathering.
Samantha Katz, a blogger who used to live in Crown Heights, writes about a fleeting moment of kindness she witnessed between a Hasidc Jewish beggar and an African-American man while visiting her old neighborhood late last Friday afternoon. The moment was so subtle you could have missed it, but the blogger captured a photo of the kind gesture – and tells the story that goes along with it.
What can only be described as a throng of people making their way to celebrate their commitment to Judaism and the achievements their children have made in Hebrew and Jewish studies – was seen at the grand end-of-year banquet of JEMs – Jewish Education Matters – in Sydney, Australia.
Uri and Chani (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
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