Lubavitcher Miraculously Unharmed After Hit-n-Run
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher yungerman is lucky to be alive after nearly getting mowed down by a car which was attempting to flee the scene of an accident – missing him by just inches.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A Lubavitcher yungerman is lucky to be alive after nearly getting mowed down by a car which was attempting to flee the scene of an accident – missing him by just inches.
With exclamations of “Shabbat Shalom” circling, more than 500 Jewish students gathered to celebrate a traditional dinner together at the University of Georgia.
A two-week old boy died at a Brooklyn hospital after contracting herpes through a religious circumcision ritual that ignited controversy in 2005 after another infant died, the Daily News has learned.
Shmully (ben R’ Yitzchak) Holtzman (Crown Heights) and Shira Porat (Jerusalem, Israel)
“Our Father Who art in Heaven, Protector and Redeemer of Israel, bless Thou the State of Israel which marks the dawn of our deliverance,” the prayer leader, a pro-Israel lobbyist on Ottawa’s Parliament Hill, recited in Hebrew Saturday morning in the Marriott Hotel’s Orchard Room, which was temporarily turned into a synagogue.
Uri and Chanie (nee Adler) Feldman (Baltimore, MD)
While there are many Chinese Auctions benefiting important and worthy organizations, the mychabadauction.com auction benefiting Chabad of Hunterdon County’s scholarship fund – to be held this Sunday – has a twist; a prize package that includes “a Luxury Private Jet Getaway for six people”.
Arye and Chana (nee Lancry) Sufrin (London, UK)
In honor of the 30th completion of the Rambam’s Mishneh Torah, TorahCafe.com is proud to host a unique web celebration of this momentous occasion hosted by Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
The Rebbe of Karlin-Stolin, Rabbi Boruch Shochet, visited the Lubavitch Shul in Baku, Azerbaijan last night. The Shul, led by Rabbi Shneor Segal, was recently featured in international news headlines due to a foiled Iranian terror plot against the Shliach and the local institutions. The pictures are unclear and badly focused due to the fact that the Karliner Rebbe goes through much effort to avoid being photographed.
This Sunday, hundreds of men and women attended a grand Siyum HaRambam celebration in Melbourne, Australia, at Yeshivah Centre’s Werdiger Hall. The event marked the completion of the 30th cycle of three daily chapters of Rambam, and the 10th cycle of one daily chapter of Rambam.
In the second segment of this series, Rabbi Nochum Kaplan discusses the first “mentch” lesson our children need to internalize; that they matter, what they do matters and how they do it matters and is important, even to the Al-mighty himself. That’s why they need to learn to carefully consider what they do and to learn to make responsible choices.
I was invited to attend the Dr. Phil show last week to offer commentary on their feature story about a young and beautiful woman who had a tale of unsettling circumstances in regard to her Chassidic background. As the Dr. Phil show unfolded, I listened intently to a young woman named Pearl Reich who, at the age of seventeen, was betrothed to a man for whom she was clearly unsuited, at her parents’ discretion and against her will.