Tonight in the Yad Eliyahu arena in Tel Aviv, well over 10,000 men, women, children, bochurim, roshei yeshiva and rabbis gathered to participate in the grand Siyum for the 30th cycle of the Rambam, as well as to celebrate the Rebbe’s birthday.
Zalmi Spritzer (Crown Heights) and Brochie Tiefenbrun (Crown Heights)
In their annual ranking of America’s most powerful Rabbis, Newsweek ‘demoted’ Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, leader of the Chabad Lubavitch network of rabbis, to second place. In first place – the spot Rabbi Krinsky usually occupies – is Rabbi David Wolpe, of Los Angeles’ Conservative Sinai Temple.
Amy Tarshis was wandering through the streets of Old S. Juan in January when she saw a man with a skullcap and a beard. With just three hours until her plane, she decided to add a new dimension to her Puerto Rico birthday trip, and approached him for a blessing. She wound up around the corner at the soon-to-be-open Jewish welcome center, talking about both her travels and the new center, where visitors could study a bit of Torah, pray, charge their cell phones, check their email, have some water and relax.
Recently on the I-95 – one of the major highways in America – there was a traffic accident in Palm Beach County that resulted in the death of an Israeli Motorcyclist on Erev Shabbos.
A face which doesn’t normally appear in Oorah’s productions shows up briefly in this “Feivish Dance” video. Can you spot it?
Rabbi Moshe Bogomilsky traveled to upstate New York to arrange the sale of Lubavitcher owned Duso Food Distributors’ chometz. Also shown in the Photo: Mr. Lefferts, Sandra Richmond and Rabbi Moshe Frank (Rabbi of local shul).
“This is going to be one of the biggest extortion scandals in the history of Israel,” a senior ultra-Orthodox figure told Haaretz Sunday, following the arrest of four directors of the popular Haredi website Bechadrei Charedim.
When pressed during a press conference, the spokeswoman for President Obama’s State Department won’t say if Jerusalem is the Capital of Israel.
Lawyers for Sholom Rubashkin today filed a petition for writ of certiorari for the United States Supreme Court. Rubashkin, who is serving a 27-year sentence for bank fraud, is seeking relief from the Supreme Court because the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals refused to consider evidence that Rubashkin first discovered after the trial that made the trial fundamentally unfair.
A rabbi was searching for answers to why the windows of his synagogue had been shot Sunday. Bullet casings and three holes were found in the windows of the Chabad Center of University City in San Diego, CA Sunday morning, Rabbi Moishe Leider said.
Prior to Orange County Chabad’s Communal Siyum Sefer Torah event, a delegation of family, friends and Orange County Jewish representatives visited the Satmar Rebbe, R’ Aaron Teitelbaum, in Monroe to participate by writing a letter.
How do you prepare hundreds of Yeshiva Buchrim to leave their homes and set up the largest network of Passover sedorim in 82 countries around the world?
Mendel Tevel (Crown Heights) and Brocha Ilulian (California)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Meir and Chanie (nee Tarlow) Perelstein (Crown Heights)
The Chabad of Northwest Connecticut provided children with the unique opportunity of hands on educational experience that has added holiday spirit, fun and education during its Model Matzah Bakery this past week at the Chabad Lubavitch Community Center.
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