A Toledo, Ohio Muslim organization has voiced its support and concern to local Jews after a menorah was damaged outside the Chabad House-Lubavitch in Sylvania Township.
Five years ago, CrownHeights.info reported a terrible travesty carried out by the 770 Gabboim in court, in which they claimed that the Rebbe’s holy signature was ‘illegal.’ Now they are at it again.
A reader sent us this photo he captured today in 770. Can you spot the anomaly?
The French Jewish school where three children and a teacher were murdered this month has received a wave of anti-Semitic hate mail and calls, the local prosecutor said Wednesday.
A delegation of prominent Chabad rabbonim visited Rabbi Ovadia Yosef to personally invite him to the upcoming siyum harambam set to take place in Yad Eliyahu Stadium in Tel Aviv. Many admorim and rabbonim are expected to take part in the event.
On the day of his daughter’s wedding, a Calgary rabbi was in mourning.
Rabbi Menachem Matusof is the younger brother of Rabbi Yosef Matusof, the senior rabbi, founder and principal of the elementary school in Toulouse, France, where three children — ages four, five and eight — and a trainee rabbi were murdered in a terror spree last week that claimed the lives of seven people.
On the 18th of Adar, Harav Yitzchok Zirkind passed away at 57.
Many knew him far better and far longer than I. However, over the past three years, through my wife’s friendship with the family, I came to know this special man and frequent his Shabbos table.
From the Safer Haminhagim: [Every day from Rosh Chodesh Nissan until the twelfth of the month, usually after Shacharis,] one reads the passage [from Bamidbar 7-8:4] that describes the offering brought on that day by a particular Nasi, or tribal prince, for the dedication of the altar of the Mishkan. [In common parlance, each day’s passage itself is often referred to as “the Nasi.”] This daily reading is followed by the prayer which opens with the words yehi ratzon (and which appears in Siddur Torah Or [as well as in Siddur Tehillat HaShem, p. 371]). This prayer is recited even by a Kohen or a Levi [despite its seeming relevance only to tribes other than the Tribe of Levi]. [284]
What are your ideal virtues; helping those in need? Learning Torah wisdom? Raising charity for a good cause? Laying Tefilin for Prayer? Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle and good exercise? The Cape Argus Chabad Team might just be what you’re looking for if you answered “all of the above.”
The boys of Rabbi Raskin‘s class in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St. prepared for Pesach by making their very own colorful Seder plate and Matza cover.
Pawel Bromson grew up in Poland where he habitually engaged in anti-Semitic activities and, like many of his countrymen, blamed the Jews for the country’s woes.
For the first time in history, more than 1,500 people attended the Shabbat 1500 event on Friday night at Binghampton University.
Mendy Edelman (Florida) and Chayale Schapiro (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Members of the park slope co-op are currently debating whether to vote on a measure that, if approved, will ban all Israeli products from the progressive – ‘consumer owned’ – outlet. More than 2,000 members showed up at Brooklyn Tech High School in Fort Greene for a memorable meeting that could last hours. You can follow a live Twitter feed of the meeting here.
Update: Boycott proposal rejected, to the tune of 1,000 against to 600 in favor.
A suspicious looking stranger was seen outside Beis Rivkah today, taking pictures and behaving erratically. The school’s security guard approached the man after waiting in vain for him to move along, but he refused to leave and kept insisting that he wanted to go inside and pray.
The still-grieving mother of a 16-year old Orthodox Jewish boy, who was killed when his student van was shot up on the Brooklyn Bridge in March 1994, reacted Monday to the public revelation that a Lebanese-born cab driver targeted the students solely because they were Jewish.
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