I didn’t realize it at the time, but I was about to make history. My friend Henry Stein of Tempe and I were on a public bus on Malta’s northern coast in a hard-to-pronounce town called Bugibba. We had just finished a scenic 90-minute cruise through the harbors surrounding this Mediterranean island-nation’s capital city of Valletta and were headed back to our hotel.
In honor of Rosh Chodesh Menachem Av, when the Rebbe teaches that we’re supposed to find ways to bring out the inner meaning of the mourning and to celebrate all that is permissible to celebrate during this time, Chabad.org rolled out an all-new special Rosh Chodesh site for women.
The Jewish community around the world was gripped by the new of the tragic accident with left 18-month old Chaim Zev Aryeh ben Nechama on life support. Today a children’s rally will be held in the JCM for the merit of his complete and speedy recovery.
On a rooftop in Dnipropetrovsk, Ukraine’s fourth-largest city, a group of women and girls of different ages look out at the city below. They have come together from countries as distant as Venezuela and Australia, to experience a piece of their shared history.
First came the food trucks. Then the boutiques on wheels. But there are mobile units serving up something truly divine in South Florida: religion.
Yitzi and Leah Spalter (Crown Heights)
Dozens made the six-hour-long trek up to Montreal Canada to visit their children attending Camp Gan israel.
Braving the long journey and sweltering heat parents and friends made the trek up to the mountains to visit their children in the various camps, including Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY.
As fate would have it, the two Jewish players who played in this strike-shortened National Hockey League season (Eric Nystrom spent his hockey year in Norway’s GETligan before getting injured after appearing in just six games) both had a fair crack at making the playoffs.
Through nine states and 25 cities, through blistering heat, torrential downpours and rough roads, come what may, 11 women will pedal 1,500 miles along the east coast for four weeks.
Over 800 Jewish children from all across the Montreal area joined together to laugh and sing with a Mexican comic and enjoy the antics of two French-Canadian acrobats. How’s that for a multicultural experience?
Jewish beachgoers couldn’t pass up the opportunity to enjoy a free kosher hotdog this Independence Day, descending on the tent set up at Newport Avenue and the sand in Ventnor, N.J., for an evening snack provided by Chabad-Lubavitch of Atlantic County.
As a follow up to last year’s video, which went viral following its appearance on CrownHeights.info, the Temple Institute of Jerusalem has released a sequel as the month of Av sets in once again.
An 18-month-old boy is on life support after drowning in an upstate pool Shabbos afternoon. Hatzalah worked on the child for nearly an hour before regaining a pulse. The public is being asked to say Tehillim for Zeev Aryeh ben Nechama.
CrownHeights.info and the Lubavitch Archives presents a photo of the Rebbe at the Lag Beomer Parade, 1960.
The Flatbush Hatzolah and NYPD baseball teams square off at MCU Park in Coney Island.
The staff at CGI Parksville were treated to a catered Chinese cuisine dinner last night.
