Visiting New York to raise money for security of their school, Rabbi Yaakov Monsonego, the principal of the Ohr Hatorah school in Toulouse France, who also lost his 6-year-old daughter Miriam in the infamous terror attack last year, stopped by the Rebbes room with his wife.
In response to a bloody weekend of gun violence that claimed the lives of seven people and left least 26 others wounded, the city police commissioner announced he would step up foot patrols in housing projects, increase plain clothes detectives in anti-crime units, add surveillance towers and monitor gang activity to curb retaliatory shooting, a police spokesman said.
A reader submitted a 3 minute video of men Davening Shacharis in 770 with the Rebbe. The reader noted that the video was taken by a private individual on the 3rd of Adar in 1991 and was publicizing it ahead of Gimmel Tammuz.
Bochurim and Talmidim Hashluchim studying in the Chabad Yeshiva in Postville, Iowa posted for a year end group picture with a ‘unique’ backdrop – which was created by the Shluchim.
Photos from the Lechaim of Shmaryohu Hackner (Crown Heights) and Huvy Levitansky (New Haven, CT) which took place Sunday night at Lubavitcher Yeshiva.
Moishe and Mushki (nee Wircberg) Aber (Crown Heights)
A video that has gone viral on YouTube shows a Russian man calling over a full grown bear and has him perform some extraordinary tricks. The video is titled – in Cyrillic – ‘I see this bear for the first time’. Real or fake? You be the judge.
Beloved educator Hindy Scheiman, an unassuming leader in the Chicago and Des Plaines, Ill., area Jewish communities, passed away after a long illness at the age of 54. A Chabad-Lubavitch emissary, she was co-director of Lubavitch Chabad of Niles, Ill.
When 15-year-old Elliot Cohen of S. Diego heard that Bike 4 Friendship would begin their cross-country trek in support of special needs children in his hometown, he knew he wanted to be involved.
Levi and Rashi (nee Margolin) Brashevitzky (Norfolk, VA)
Today, New Jersey Senator Frank Raleigh Lautenberg passed away at the age of 89. Raised in a non-religious home, he came to meet the Lubavitcher Rebbe as the then head of the UJA. Upon reflecting on this meeting he conceded that the Rebbe was indeed correct on matters of assimilation.
Beginning tonight, in honor of Gimmel Tammuz Rabbi Manis Friedman will be teaching the Maamar Va’atah Tetzaveh in a three part online seminar.
Hundreds of thousands joined the Celebrate Israel Day Parade on Fifth Avenue and Central Park in Manhattan, photographer Itzik Roytman was on hand and photographed dozens of people putting on Tefillin with a group of Bochurim.
BOYNTON BEACH, FL — Sunday, 10 Sivan, 5773, “Celebrating Jewish Life,” Chabad’s Chai Milestone Banquet marked a culmination of a year-long salute to its pioneering Jewish Community Building. The evening was crowned with a Siyum Sefer Torah, commissioned specifically for the gala. From Gimmel Tammuz 5754 through Gimel Tamuz 5773, Jew by Jew, Chabad has managed to build a thriving Jewish community out of hundreds of acres of barren pasture land.
Hundreds of residents turned out for the 71st Precincts 19th Annual Family Fun Day Picnic, which included free rides, hot dogs and hamburgs, as well as the chance to meet police officials. Dropping by was police commissioner Raymond Kelly as well as the new Brooklyn borough commander Assistant Chief Owen Monaghan.
Hundreds of men and women gathered in front of 770 to attend the Levaya of Zevi Silver OBM, who passed away Friday.
Los Angeles Shliach Rabbi Moshe Greenwald is leading an effort to restore the Mount Zion Cemetery in East Los Angeles, which was badly damaged by vandals. With the help of local businessmen and developers he has raised some $300,000.
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