The Torah teaches, that words and gestures that come from the heart, enter the hearts of others and will grow and thrive. With this thought in mind connections have been taking place on desktop computers from home, laptops from local coffee shops and even cell phones in busy airports. A small program that began in a small city has now grown and flourished, with branches throughout many Chabad Centers across North America.
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo of the Rebbe at a Farbrengen, circa late 1960’s.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Devarim – titled ‘Happy-Sad-Happy.’
On Wednesday evening, hundreds gathered in the newly renovated Beis Medrash Chovevei Torah on Eastern Parkway to learn about the Beis Hamidash.
The designation of a day to commemorate a given event or segment of society, is a common occurrence among the world’s various nationalities and cultures. Americans, for example, celebrate Memorial Day, Veterans Day, Independence Day, Presidents Day and a host of other special occasions, such as Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Valentine’s Day and even Secretary’s day.
When I was thirteen years of age, I was doubly orphaned. My mother had passed away when I was a child, and then, when I was almost fourteen years old, I lost my father as well. I had to move into yeshiva full-time, as I had no other place to go.
Nossy and Nelly (nee Akuvaev) Slater (Crown Heights)
Yossel and Mimi (nee Lovitch) Greenman (Los Angeles, CA)
The fact that renting an apartment in New York City is expensive is as obvious to most people as the fact that the sky is blue. But a new report by the real estate research firm Reis Inc. said rental prices just went up.
An undated photo, taken circa 1910, of the Plotkin family in their hometown of Rogachov in present-day Belarus.
Campers and staff at Gan Yisroel-Montreal were split into three teams for ‘Bog War,’ the first month of camp version of color war.
Vienna’s Jewish community says a historically important trove of ancient Jewish tombstones have been recently unearthed, including some dating back to the 16th century.
Oday Aboushi has been touted as being the first Palestinian-American player in the National Football League (NFL), but his radical behavior since being drafted by the New York Jets less than three months ago could get him sent home early. His latest infraction was made as he gave a speech at a radical Muslim conference sponsored by a group denying Israel’s right to exist and associated with blatantly anti-Semitic and terrorist propaganda.
Eliyahu and Hannah Bracha (nee Gervais-Picard) Houri
The mayor of the Israeli town of Beitar, Rabbi Meir Rubenstein, along with an entourage of Rabbonim and municipal officials, visited the local Chabad library, where a collection of presentations and exhibitions on the Beis Hamikdosh are on display in honor of 17 Tammuz and Tisha B’av.
Rabbi Moshe Klein of Crown Heights travels every Thursday to an old-age home to help the Jewish residents put on Tefilin. One elderly Jew would always refuse week after week, saying he never did it before and didn’t want to begin now.
My parents raised me and my six siblings in Norfolk, VA, in essence, as the only “Haredi” kids in our day-school classes. As the “ultra-orthodox” kids who kept strict kosher, never drove on Shabbat, and who were wildly different from (and significantly shorter than!) the others. But yet, we were welcomed by our peers because we welcomed them.
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