Police Chief Awarded at NCFJE 72nd Annual Dinner
On Sunday, November 19, the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education held its 72nd Annual Awards dinner held at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park, New York City.
On Sunday, November 19, the National Committee for the Furtherance of Jewish Education held its 72nd Annual Awards dinner held at the Jewish Heritage Museum in Battery Park, New York City.
A Chabad Rabbi puts on Tefilin this morning with demonstrators at a pro-Israel rally on Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles, California, while passing vehicles honk their horns in support.
Photographer Itsik Roytman aimed his lens at a demonstration in Times Square supporting Israel’s right to defend itself against its enemies. They were confronted by counter-demonstrators in support of the Palestinian cause, including several members of the Neturei Karta faction.
Rabbi Mendy and Sara Alevsky will be moving to Cleveland, Ohio to establish a Chabad House on Campus, at Case Western Reserve University.
Chabad HQ in Israel via its Terror Victims Project has mobilized its 300 Chabad Houses with hundreds of volunteers in the regions under fire. The Shluchim are in the field, bringing moral, spiritual and practical support to the families and the soldiers who are in the line of fire.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A motorist, driving while taking hits from a bottle of vodka, rear-ended a minivan loaded with four passengers earlier tonight and injuring them. Adding insult to injury, one police officer saw it fit to issue the minivan a parking violation for ‘blocking a crosswalk’.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is extending the gas rationing system in New York City through Thanksgiving, despite having ended already in New Jersey and on Long Island.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of a group of Chassidim exiting 770. Can you identify those in the picture and when it was taken?
Two days after a rocket attack in Kiryat Malachi killed three, Shmuel Scharf vowed that he and his children will recover, following the loss of his 24-year-old wife Mira.
As reported previously, the Rabbi of Beis Shmuel-Chabad in Crown Heights, internationally renowned lecturer Rabbi Yossi Jacobson, is stepping down from his post after several years of service.
In light of the situation in The Land of Israel in recent days, and following the Rebbe’s call during the 1967 War to add in Mitzvos – specifically reaching out and putting on Tefillin with Jews who would otherwise not, Bochurim from the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ headed out this Friday to Rutgers University to do Mivtzoim with the newly formed “Rutgers Jewish Outreach” – a program of Chabad of New Jersey.
R’ Pinchas Rieber is sitting Shiva after the passing of his mother, Mrs. Baila Rieber, OBM, at 640 Empire Blvd. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shachris: 9:30
Mincha: Shkia
Maariv: Tzeis
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
This video, a tribute to Mr. Sami (Shmuel) Rohr, was shown at the International Conference of Shluchim, 2012. The clip begins with an address by Mr. Rohr to the Conference in 2006, which touches on the two themes of the 2012 Conference — 200 years from the Alter Rebbe’s passing and 70 years from the writing of the Hayom Yom.
The students of RAP (Rabbi Avtzon’s Program) in Jerusalem joined together to Farbreng in honor of their fellow soldiers who are currently fighting for the security of the Holy Land, many of whom are their close friends and relatives.
A Grad rocket fired from Gaza at noon on Saturday tore through a 10-story building in the center of Ashdod that houses a Chabad synagogue, which less than an hour earlier had been packed with congregants.
Yehoshua Horvitz (Tzfat, Kiryat Malachi, Israel) and Mushky (bas R’ Zalman) Hertzel (Crown Heights)
Hundreds of Chassidim of all stripes gathered at Yeshivas Toras Emes in Jerusalem to celebrate Rosh Chodesh Kislev – the day the Rebbe returned home after suffering a heart attack in 1977. The gathering was also an opportunity to mourn the three lives lost that morning in a rocket attack on an apartment building in Nachlat Har Chabad.