The streets of Central Harlem were filled with music and dancing Sunday as, for the first time in almost a century, a new Sefer Torah was welcomed to the neighborhood’s Chabad Shul. The last time a similar event occurred was during the Great Depression.
This year’s Kinus Hashluchim will begin in a unique and grand fashion with the completion of four Sifrei Torah, along with the beginning of a fifth Torah, which are being dedicated to the Rebbe “who sent Shluchim worldwide to care for all Jews.”
South Africa was privy to two special shows, titled ‘Voices,’ which featured Benny Friedman and Gad Elbaz at the Teatro at Montecasion. Both shows were sold-out successes.
Crown Heights women gathered for an evening titled “Working it OUT with the IN-Laws” hosted by Rabbi Mendel Samuels, Shliach to Simsbury, CT. Laced with witty humor, the crowd was offered practical tips on respectfully avoiding problems with their in-laws.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos.
In honor of the 90th birthday of Rabbi J.J. Hecht, we present a collection of photos of him cheering up children at a Chanukah rally in 770, circa early 1970’s.
A year after Superstorm Sandy catastrophically flooded hundreds of miles of eastern U.S. coastline, thousands of people still trying to fix their soaked and surf-battered homes are being stymied by bureaucracy, insurance disputes and uncertainty over whether they can even afford to rebuild.
For the second time in three weeks, a water main burst in Montreal’s Westbury area, and many homeowners will spend their day cleaning their basements and reporting the damages to their insurance agencies.
Last week the wedding of Yehuda Geisinsky and Chana Blumes, both of Crown Heights, took place in the Oholei Torah ballroom.
Jerusalem-born Oren Rahat describes himself as a Modern Orthodox Jew. A graduate of Religious-Zionist yeshivahs, he has always valued Torah study as an important part of his life.
The Mikvah for Keilim adjacent to Crown Heights’ Sterling Electronics is under threat of closure after mounds of garbage left by patrons raised the ire of neighbors.
Rabbi Moshe Klein’s wiry, exacting hands scratched the last of 304,805 Hebrew characters in black ink on vellum Sunday afternoon, completing the Saratoga Chabad House’s newest Torah, and a year of painstaking labor.
Rabbi Zalman Yaffe, chief rabbi of the Russian city of Volgagrad (formerly Stalingrad), went this morning to donate blood for the victims of a bus bombing in his city last week.
Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
Rabbi Eli Feldman, a Chabad rabbi in Sydney, Australia, told Arutz Sheva Monday that “both Jewish community and larger Australian community were shocked” by the anti-Semitic attack in Bondi on Shabbos.
Jared Sichel, a writer for the L.A. Jewish Journal, compares the approaches of Chabad and Hillel to Jewish life on campus, and describes how one is changing the other.
Just before the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the Jewish community of Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine welcomed four new families, who joined the 40 existing families of Shluchim active in the city.
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