A June hearing before a federal judge will determine whether Ron Hirsch, the man charged with detonating a pipe bomb last spring at a Chabad House in Santa Monica, should be forced to take medication to stand trial.
Levi Simpson (Crown Heights) and Esther Solomon (Sydney, Australia)
L’chaim will be tonight at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
On Lag B’Omer, a flock of helicopters will take to the skies above Eretz Yisroel, with excited children who won a flight at their local Lag B’omer Parades inside. The Bardugo Media Company, the provider of the choppers, has equipped each chopper with state of the art security measures: a Sefer Chitas.
The Skulener Rebbe, one of the chief organizers of the Citi Field gathering to curb the influence of the internet, has formally invited the Lubavitch community to participate, and urged all to attend the event.
Ari and Rivkah Baila (nee Jedwab) Arenstein (Johannesburg, South Africa)
Do you like getting around New York City in an efficient and environmentally friendly way? There’s good news for you. The city is preparing to launch its bike sharing program.
Jewish reaction was mixed to the election of the Socialist Party’s Francois Hollande as the president of France.
Rabbi Leibel Kaplan was born in Paris in 1948 * He headed the Chabad mosdos in the holy city of Tzfas for 25 years * He passed away on a Russian highway on the 16th of Iyar, 1998, only a few miles away from the town of Lubavitch.
A young rabbi and his wife are starting the Jewish Russian Learning Center of South Beach, located in Rosebank in Staten Island, NY. While open to all, the center is hoping to attract members of the Russian Jewish community, especially young families and professionals who currently aren’t affiliated with a synagogue.
It is an event that unfortunately, has been in the blogosphere headlines, not for its potentially lofty message but rather for the sideshows and distractions surrounding it. The latest of these diversions we can call “The Third Wave.”
The Kiryat Malachi Municpal Council chose Rabbi Yitzchok Yehuda Yaroslavsky, Rov of Lubavitcher community in the Nachlas Har Chabad neighborhood, as the Rov of the entire city. The unanimous vote took place yesterday.
When I volunteered for the Israel Defense Forces, I had no idea what was rocketing towards me. And, although I’m never going to be the same person I was before the injury, the surprising turn of events gave me the opportunity to do something truly special.
On a hot June day in 1977, Avrohom Eliezer Goldman was talking on a public phone outside his Yeshiva on Troy Ave. in Crown Heights, when he was stabbed in the back by an unidentified assailant. He died shortly after.
The Chabad Center in Chester, NY headed by Rabbi Pesach and Chana Burston now boasts one of the most innovative and imaginative murals in the country. The “Aleph-Bet Adventure Fantasy Mural” was recently designed by local artist Corbett Hoffman of Goshen.
Each year, Tzeirei Agudas Chabad in Israel organizes a Lag Ba’omer parade on the streets of Jerusalem, which is attended by thousands of children from all walks of life. The children shown here are rehearsing for one of the highlights of the parade – the drummers’ procession – which they will perform in military garb.
A Rosh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak sought council by Litvisher Gadol Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman regarding a parent who wanted to enroll two children from a second marriage into his school. The Rosh Yeshiva did not want to accept them since they weren’t the model student the school seeks to accept. Speaking in line with the ideas of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Shteinman sharply criticized the school – calling it Gaavah not to accept every student.
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