As the week of Shiva after the passing of Reb Shmuel Isaac Popack concluded, his family gathered for the Hakamas Hamatzeva. Hundreds of people, from the community and beyond, came to visit the family and share their words of comfort and consolation.
On Shabbos (June 15th) Nik Wallenda will walk accross the Niagara Falls on a tightrope . But what if he were Jewish? Shliach to Niagara Falls Rabbi Zalman Zaltzman asks some important questions..
On Sunday tens of thousands of Jews from all around the tri-state area gathered in upper Manhattan to express Jewish pride and support for Israel at the annual Israel Day Parade. As wherever large numbers of Jews are present, Chabad Chassidim where there to help any Jew who wished put on Tefilin.
Despite a bleak forecast of strong wind and rain, a celebration was held at the Montreal Chabad Center for Russian immigrants to dedicate the newly renovated building and welcome a new Sefer torah for the Shul inside – all in beautiful weather.
Avroumi Perl (Antwerp, Belgium) and Nechama Dina Ladaev (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
On Shabbos Parshas Nasso, students of the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (YG) in Melbourne enjoyed a mid-winter Shabbaton, arranged by the Yeshiva’s Shluchim. The Shabbaton took place at Log Cabin Camp, a rustic bush resort located at scenic Creswick, a two hour drive from Melbourne.
Merchants along crime-prone Nostrand Ave., who have been unsuccessful in their push to get police security cameras installed along the street, are charging that the State Republican Party is playing favorites with Borough Park over Crown Heights.
Chabad of Delaware, one of the state’s largest Jewish outreach groups, marked its 25th anniversary Sunday night with a round of honors for its biggest supporters.
Yedidim Choir Sings the Daled Bavos at the Chuppah of Yosef Shidler – AKA the ‘Cool Jew’ – in front of 770 yesterday.
Shluchim from over 15 states gathered this past Shabbos at Chabad of Nashville, Tennessee, for a weekend of learning, inspiration, and camaraderie in an atmosphere of “sheves achim gam yachad.”
Three Chabad Rabbinical students were brutally attacked in Lyon, France on Shabbat afternoon, June 3rd, by a large group of Muslims. The victims were returning home from a Shabbat meal with friends, and were passing through a predominantly Muslim neighborhood when they were verbally and physically assaulted.
When 26-year-old Crown Heights native Menachem Eber attended his first Family Day picnic in Lefferts Park 19 years ago, there were almost as many cameras as kosher franks. A generation later, tourists had replaced the television trucks, and despite expected record attendance, the once-unprecedented event barely warranted a nod.
A ribbon was cut and a mezuzah was affixed to a doorway Sunday to officially dedicate the Chabad Jewish Center of Cape Coral, Florida.
Anash, shluchim and students of the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in S. Paulo, Brazil gathered for a Kinus Torah at the central Beit Chabad.
Emotions ran high at a small gathering today in Deans, New Jersey, as a hakamas matzeiva was held for Leiby Kletzky, four weeks to the day before the Borough Park boy’s first yahrtzeit on the eleventh of Tammuz.
Mendy Sharabi (Israel) and Tzofit Avraham (Montreal, Canada)
Hundreds of men, women, and children attended a Farbrengen event in honor of the 5th Yahrtzeit of the Shliach to S. Monica, California, Rabbi Avrohom HaLevi Levitansky , OBM, on Wednesday evening, May 31st .
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