The United States Embassy in Israel held a memorial service today marking the 11 years since the World Trade Center attacks in New York City. Rabbi Menachem Kutner, Director of Chabad Terror Victims Project, opened the ceremony with a moving prayer for the souls of those who lost their lives and to comfort their bereaved families.
Disputing unwarranted water bill charges is an uphill battle. It takes more than having the facts on your side to win. To help with this difficult challenge, the NYC Public Advocate’s office has teamed up with elected officials from across the City to produce a new guide for homeowners and business owners.
After two years of delay, the city is poised to allow a non-profit group to put a sign in a back lane in River Heights. The Chabad Jewish Learning Centre has been asking that a new lane near its campus at 1845 Mathers Avenue be renamed Chabad Street.
United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway brought a professional trainer to create a second-to-none acrobatic team for the students. The yeshiva realized that students needed a good kosher outlet to strive and feel good about themselves. Returning to class from the gym, they feel empowered and more focused than ever before.
Amid the chaos and panic following the airliners slamming into the two World Trade Center towers, men and woman answered a higher calling – instead of running away, they turned and ran towards the burning building in desperate attempts to rescue those trapped in the burning inferno. Among those brave men was a band of Shomrim volunteers from Crown Heights.
Michel (Zach) Klein (Middletown, NY) and Noa Langer (Yorba Linda, CA)
Avraham and Shayna (nee Katuna) Granat (Coral Springs, FL)
Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne is internationally renowned among mainstream Lubavitch Yeshivos for streaming Shiurim according to learning ability, and not according to age. This model has proven to be incredibly successful, with four levels currently provided separately for Nigleh and Chassidus.
One after another, men in yarmulkes or black hats, some sporting long beards, pleaded with the planning and zoning board to let a Jewish Orthodox school operate a dormitory in the city.
Congregants of Chabad in Hallendale Beach and from elsewhere in South Florida were greatly inspired by a Farbrengen on Motzei Shabbos with renowned Mashpia Reb Shlomo Zarchi. The farbrengen was followed by a moving Slichos led by Chazzan Yossy Lebovics.
Mamesh Music held its first open house Monday night for the girls’ program of 5773. Director of the girls’ division Dana Pestun, along with the other girls’ teachers, Chaya Mushka Goldstein and Chaya Yavitch, hosted the Open House, showed people around the new premises, demonstrated the instruments and answered questions.
Mendy and Bruria (nee Freeman) Efune (Crown Heights)
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A reader sent us this photo of a container of parsley for sale in an Israeli supermarket. Just to be clear, the parsley is very, very Kosher.
Sounds all up and down the musical scale emanated from ram’s horns tooted by about 35 boys and girls on Sunday – a precursor to the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashanah.
Nestled on a wooded hillside just outside Morristown, the Rabbinical College of America has become an international force in Orthodox Judaism’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Thousands of years of Jewish history has come home to Oceanside, California with Sunday’s dedication of the new community Torah scroll for the city’s Chabad Jewish Center.
Forget the Manischewitz: the Livermore Valley plans to pass the Cabernet at the table. The Chabad of the Tri-Valley and Mitchell Katz Winery are jointly jumping into the kosher winemaking business, just in time for the Jewish new year.
