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An event was held on Thursday at the Shluchim Office lounge for volunteers of the Online School's Homework Helpers program, as well as School Alumni.
Homework Helpers Get Together at Shluchim Office
An event was held on Thursday at the Shluchim Office lounge for volunteers of the Online School’s Homework Helpers program, as well as School Alumni.
Reb Chonye Morosow served as a personal secretary to the fifth and sixth Lubavitcher Rebbes in Russia. His son, Reb Mendel, was born in 1916, and recalls two episodes in the Rebbe's homes.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Hide and Seek
Reb Chonye Morosow served as a personal secretary to the fifth and sixth Lubavitcher Rebbes in Russia. His son, Reb Mendel, was born in 1916, and recalls two episodes in the Rebbe’s homes.
Parasha Thought: A Precious Neshama
There is a new arrival in Gan Eden this Shabbat. Every week for four years I have ended this Dvar Torah with a prayer to G-d Almighty for the complete restoration to robust good health of a sweet Jewish child named Aliza Schwab. The doctors were smug and certain in their dire predictions four years ago. “A matter of hours,” was what her courageous parents were told again and again. But she prevailed, a sweet child against the world of darkness.
Rabbi Yosef and Mendel Eichenblatt, founders and directors of Abraham's Tent, were spotted today With Zally Lazerous at the Jerusalem marathon running for the organization. Abraham's Tent is an open home for all to experience Judaism and Israel in a fun and exciting way. The center will enable people from all walks of life to be inspired and connect to their Judaic roots and homeland.
Lubavitchers Run Marathon.. in Hats and Jackets!
Rabbi Yosef and Mendel Eichenblatt, founders and directors of Abraham’s Tent, were spotted today With Zally Lazerous at the Jerusalem marathon running for the organization. Abraham’s Tent is an open home for all to experience Judaism and Israel in a fun and exciting way. The center will enable people from all walks of life to be inspired and connect to their Judaic roots and homeland.
Video: Tackling Controversial Issues
Join Rabbi Nissan Mangel, Rabbi Yitzchak Schochet, Mrs. Rivka Slonim and moderator, Mrs. Molly Resnik as they tackle perplexing and enlightening questions on topics ranging from the Holocaust to dinosaurs. This Crossfire discussion puts the experts on the hot seat and allows for the audience to really get their questions answered. It’s a not-to-be-missed event!
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Dovid Abba and Chaya (nee Kulek) Goldstein
692 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Yisroel and Alizah (nee Lowenstein) Silberstein
388 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Chaim and Esther Leah (nee Hecht) Vogel
825 Eastern Pkwy. [between Albany and Kingston Ave.]
Yacov and Devora Young
1419 President St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Shneur and Sima Hasofer
272 Kingston Ave. [corner of Kingston and Lincoln Pl.]
Shabbos at Besht: 20 Years Since Rebbe Last Spoke
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Chaim Miller will lead a discussion on the topic, Reflections: twenty years since the Rebbe’s last Farbrengen.
Baby Boy!
Chaim and Esther Leah (nee Hecht) Vogel (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 825 Eastern Pkwy.
[between Albany and Kingston Ave.]
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these unique photos of the Rebbe giving coins to children for Tzedakah.
How Lubavitchers Inspired the Vizhnitzer Rebbe in 1994
I remember the Vizhnitzer Rebbe’s travels to Ukraine in the month of Av, 1994. Together with 700 of his Chassidim, he prayed at the gravesites of many Tzadikim buried in the region, when he arrived in Berdichev a few days before Tisha B’av.
18 Years Since the Murder of Ari Halberstam HYD
On March 1st, 1994, a Lebanese terrorist named Rashid Baz opened fire on a van full of Lubavitcher Bochurim on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the attack Ari Halberstam HYD was killed. 18 years after the murder, which shocked the world, we present a collection of photos and news broadcasts which gave broad coverage to the incident.
Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Aliza Schwab, 8, OBM
It is with great sadness and deep pain that we inform you of the tragic and untimely passing of young Ruchama Aliza Sara Chana Schwab of Miami, Florida at the age of 8. Four years ago we reported about Aliza’s tragic drowning in their family swimming pool, and her parents fight to keep her on life support. Yesterday she succumbed to an infection.
We are living in a time when many families are struggling. Some don’t have money for their most basic necessities, heaven forbid. Some have basic parnosso, thank g-d, but little beyond that. Simchas haven’t slowed down; it seems that celebrations are ever increasing.
Op-Ed: Are Babysitters Overpaid?
We are living in a time when many families are struggling. Some don’t have money for their most basic necessities, heaven forbid. Some have basic parnosso, thank g-d, but little beyond that. Simchas haven’t slowed down; it seems that celebrations are ever increasing.
Albany Students Celebrate Pi Day
Jewish middle school students in Albany, NY, marked the so-called “Pi Day” Wednesday by discussing the famous mathematical constant – defined as the ratio of any Euclidean circle’s circumference to its diameter – in terms of references to the concept in the Talmud and later Jewish works.
Op-Ed: Why I Didn’t Apply to Be Chief Rabbi
Now that the deadline has passed, a typical question I’ve been asked these past weeks is, “did you submit your application?” This of course is in reference to the position for Chief Rabbi.
The Strategic Initiative of Campus Shluchim
Following the tremendous success of Chabad on Campus International Foundation’s peer-to-peer coaching program, more than 30 campus Shluchim attended a two-day coaching seminar at the Jewish Children’s Museum this week.
