In these trying times in the darkest days of Golus, we must take to heart the words of the Rebbe to two grieving parents who asked how they can cope in the face of such tragedy.
Zalmy and Chaya (nee Inglis) Wolff (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 1533 President St.
[between Albany and Troy Ave.]
The shootings at a Jewish school in France have schools and houses of worship in New Jersey looking again at their own security precautions, already at a heightened level for years because of threats against Jewish communities worldwide.
A gala banquet dinner celebrating Chabad’s 10 years of service to the greater West Hempstead, NY community took place Sunday night, March 18, at the prestigious Garden City Hotel. Chabad of West Hempstead, under the leadership of Rabbi Yossi and Chaya R. Lieberman, is also responsible for activities at neighboring colleges Hofstra University, Adelphi University and Nassau Community college.
On the day before 27 Adar, 1992, the Rebbe stood on his feet for many hours distributing thousands of dollars for Tzedaka, as was his usual Sunday custom. Afterwards, the Rebbe davened Marriv, and the gathered chassidim were intrigued as to why the Rebbe was taking so long to finish Krias Shma.
With shock and sadness we inform you of the passing of Yisroel, the infant son of Rabbi Shneur Zalman and Chana Gershovits, Shluchim to Bois-Colombes, France.
More than 300 men, women children, grandparents and great-grandparents gathered together for the bat mitzvah of Gitty Lipszyc, daughter of Rabbi Moishe Meir and Penina Lipszyc.
Thousands of people packed a Jerusalem cemetery to bid farewell to the victims of Monday’s shooting outside a Jewish school in Toulouse, France.
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this first-time-released photo of the Rebbe on the morning of Chof Zayin Adar at the end of Shacharis.
With the help of generous supporters dedicated to ensuring that the Yidishkait of Jewish children in public school be brought to the highest level, each child attending Released Time across the greater New York area received a personalized Sidur with their Hebrew names printed on the cover.
Gabriel Sandler, 3, who was gunned down at point blank range in Toulouse Monday, was named after Rabbi Gavriel Holtzberg, who was murdered in Mumbai just before he was born.
Delegates from the European Union attended a memorial service on Tuesday morning at the offices of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe in Brussels. The specially convened gathering paid tribute to the lives of the three children and a Rabbi who were gunned down in Toulouse the day before.
Over the past decade, thousands of words have been spilled, in conversation and in print, over the alarming rate of our youth going off the derech. Accusations have been made against our school systems and against the parents. The rabbonim, the mashpiyim and even our store vendors have been blamed.
Sunday, 26 Adar 1, 770. It was a ‘regular’ day at the Dollars Line, if one could call any day in 770 ‘regular.’ The Rebbe was giving out dollars to the thousands gathered for that life-changing electric moment, a brief meeting of Yechida with the Yechida Klolis.
French police searching for a gunman who shot dead four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse have launched a raid in the north of the city. Two police officers have been injured in the operation, which is reported to have begun before dawn and is ongoing. The suspect, named as Mohammed Merah, is reported to have travelled to fight in Afghanistan and to have been jailed there before escaping in 2008. Latest Update: 1:30 PM
In a shocking incident this morning, a 14-year-old boy was hit by a rogue driver and was left to fend for himself. Although he was quite possibly the victim of a hate crime, the police showed no interest in pursuing the perpetrator and bringing him to justice.
Shea Halberstam (Crown Heights) and Abby Waxman (Cleveland, OH)
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