An agency that has been offering interest free loans to those in need for over 100 years has recently set its sights on a particular demographic, Brooklyn’s chasidic community, lending over $1.5 million dollars over the past several years to locally owned businesses.
An incredible day of unity and fun for South Florida camps was organized by Rabbi Shmuly G. of Chabad Youth Network of Florida. CGI Bal Harbor, CGI Parkland, CGI Miami, CGI Hallandale and CGI Sunrise all joined together for the experience.
Neturei Karta activists attended the annual Al Quds Day rally on Shabos in Toronto, Canada, during which the former president of Canadian NGO “Palestine House” openly called for Palestinians to embark on an ethnic-cleansing of Israelis.
Mendy Paul, a Lubavitcher bochur from Morristown, NJ, has launched a crowdfunding campaign called “The Yeshiva Guide for the Perplexed”. The project aims to provide valuable information to parents and bochurim looking to choose the right yeshiva for the coming year of study.
Dozens of Chabad families from all over France are participating in the annual Torah study retreat, which takes place over several weeks in the French Alps. The seminar is organized by Beis Lubavitch of Paris, under the leadership of Rabbi Shmuel Azimov.
This past week Machne Yisrael Day Camp in Queens held a grand concert, with its very own assistant Head Counselor – the one and only “Mendy J” (Jacobson) – singing.
After donning tefillin with a colorful collection of Jews he met throughout his two week travels, Benjamin Kogos, a Staten Island, New York native and public school attendee, seems to be starting his own mivtzoim route. On Sunday, he reported on the CTeen X-Treme’s group Facebook page that he had just gotten two Jews to put on tefillin.
Dov Lipinski (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Rivkah Greene (Tarzana, CA)
Only one week and two days after he was shot and critically wounded in an anti-Semitic attack near his home in Derbent, Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Ovadia Isakov was released Sunday from Beilinson Medical Center in Petach Tikvah, Israel. He offered his thanks today to the many people who acted on his behalf and prayed for his recovery.
Today, 29 Av, marks the first Yahrtzeit of Reb Yechezkel Halevi Lewintow, OBM.
On Monday, NCFJE Young Leadership Committee held Ping-Pong for Charity event in Manhattan, NY. Over 150 young professionals from around greater New York joined together over cocktails and a buffet to square off against each other and professional Ping-Pong players.
Drivers on one of Brooklyn’s busiest arteries can expect to see more congestion as the Department of Transportation has painted over another lane on Eastern Parkway.
A middle-aged Caucasian woman was arrested for shoplifting this morning, after leaving the ‘Totally Her’ women’s clothing store with a bag filled with unpaid-for items.
Last week an anonymous group of Chabad Rabonim published a letter urging fellow Chasidim not to purchase Seforim from Oz Vehadar due to their systemic exclusion of Chabad sources in their Gemaras and other publications.
Parents and friends from all over the northeast made the trek up to the Quebec mountains to visit the children in Camp Gan Israel of Montreal.
They come from all over Israel and from vastly different lifestyles. Yet, they all have one thing in common – all have had their lives devastated by acts of terror and violence – all share in a unique sisterhood of understanding and empathy.
Parents and friends made the trek up to the Catskill mountains for a fun-filled visiting day at Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
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