Rabbi Eli Kornfeld of Chabad of Hunterdon County in Annandale, NJ was appointed by Governor Chris Christie to serve on the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education with the Secretary of State’s Office.
Yossi and Zlata (nee Davidson) Margolin (Crown Heights)
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I’m a soldier, AKA I.D. # 7756395. While that’s my identity on base, this letter is to convey my appreciation of and gratitude to the people who remind me of my true identity. My story is not unique to me; it involves many of my comrades as well. Most of all it is about those who care for us. Moreover, the events that I write about are not in the past but ongoing, each week.
This video – asserting Israel’s right to defend itself against Iran – has gone viral on YouTube, reaching close to a million views.
It all began in a bar’s basement, but now the Chabad Jewish Center is a state of the art facility. “We would joke, you go upstairs for the bar and come downstairs for the Mitzvah,” Rabbi Yitzchok Tiechtel said.
Chabad of Central Africa hosted a Passover children’s program in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea. Photo: Lubavitch.com.
The siblings of R’ Sholom Dovber Lipsker, OBM – Eli Lipsker, Tzivia Grossman, Batsheva Feigenson and Zehava Perlow – are sitting Shiva at 822 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Ave.] until Thursday morning.
Shachris: 7:30
Mincha: 7:15
Maariv: 8:30
Hamakom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei Tzion VeYerushalayim
Dov and Racheli (nee Rav-Noy) Muchnik (Oxnard, CA)
A right wing Hungarian legislator’s comments apparently in support of a 130-year-old anti-Semitic blood libel has earned the rebuke of Prime Minister Viktor Orban and calls for an official investigation on charges of incitement.
It is with much shock and great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Reb Avrohom Yeshaya Schtroks, of Morristown, NJ, at the age of 55. Update: The levaya will take place tomorrow, Monday, at 9:30 AM at Shomrei Hadas Chapels in Boro Park, and will pass by 770 at approximately 10:30 AM.
Heavy rains and snow will soon pound the eastern United States, possibly leading to downed trees, power outages and flight delays as a low pressure system from the Gulf of Mexico moves through the region, meteorologists said on Saturday.
Chabad in Palm Beach Gardens plans to spend about $400,000 to turn an abandoned fire station into a 100-person traditional synagogue and cultural center.
Two brothers accused of beating a black teenager while patrolling an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood are set to go on trial Monday in a case with similarities to the Trayvon Martin shooting.
Rabbi Eliezer Gurary and a group of Israeli bochurim were on hand to offer Torah and Mitzvos to ‘March of the Living’ participants at the Auschwitz concentration camp. The marchers were offered Tfillin, and many ‘karkaftas’ were discovered among the marchers, all eager to perform this mitzvah for the very first time. Many Israeli police officers joined the march and put on Tfilin, including Police Commissioner Yochanan Danino.
Aharon Alexander Goncharov, the 25-year-old yeshiva student who had been in a coma in an Israeli hospital after he was attacked in Kiev on the second night of Passover, defied all odds and regained consciousness last week.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — The incident in which a Jewish man was savagely beaten on Sterling Street in Crown Heights is being considered by detectives as a possible hate crime, according to sources close to the investigation. Chilling surveillance footage reveals the moments leading up to the assault.
Avraham and Toba Leah (nee Altein) Kabacznik (Belem, Brazil)
