Summer Merkos Shlichus registration will soon be opening after a wildly accomplished Pesach, where some 600 bochurim in roughly 300 locations around the world connected with more than 32,000 Jews. According to Rabbi Shneur Nejar, director of Merkos Shlichus, “We fulfilled the Rebbe’s blessing to the Merkos Shluchim, to go ‘with extraordinary success.’”
A reader sent us this photo of what appears to be a delivery of fresh tomatoes to Oholei Torah gone horribly wrong. Can anyone explain what happened?
The OK has released an advisory that Trader Joe’s chocolate chips are no longer certified Pareve, rendering them Kosher but not Cholov Yisroel if labeled with an OK-D.
Federal Aid cut coming this July. Students encouraged to register for Bramson ORT program now:
Four years ago, a unique partnership was developed between Crown Heights and Bensonhurst. Community leaders from Chabad realized that many students in their yeshiva system were not planning on continuing and obtaining smicha and would rather choose a career. There was a need to develop a framework which would allow them to earn the skills to make a respectable parnassah and raise families. Thus, the JTVS program at Bramson ORT College was created.
After Bostonians saw hours of rain in the morning and afternoon of Lag Ba’omer, the clouds parted and the sun shined its first rays on the 13th annual Shaloh House Lag Ba’omer Extravaganza!
Montreal is one of the few cities which holds a Lag Ba’omer parade regardless of whether it falls out on Sunday or any other day of the week. This year was no exception.
Rabbi Yaacov Klein, Postville, Iowa’s Mohel, Sofer and Bodek fixes the Sefer Torah of the Shul in the Agri-Star (formerly Agriprocessors) meat plant. The beard covering is required in the plant at all times for hygiene.
Even though statistics show that many women reading this right now have experienced the loss of a pregnancy, most of these women have not and likely never will publicly address or even mention in private the fact of their miscarriage. Being that this kind of death is a fact of many women’s lives, and that silence and shame only exaggerate the pain, I am opening up about my own miscarriage, which occurred a little over two months ago.
USA Today published these photos of members of Save Our Streets (S.O.S.) canvassing a section of the Crown Heights neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY. The organization, which is made up of “violence interrupters” and outreach workers that grew up or live in the neighborhood, makes almost nightly patrols to discourage residents from criminal activity.
Although Lag B’omer this year was on a Thursday, the Shluchim in Illinois joined together to capitalize on the success of last year’s event and once again produced the Great Jewish Family Festival.
Levi Tenenbaum (Irvine, CA) and Bassy Teller (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Tuesday at chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Ave.]
This year for Lag Ba’omer, Lubavitch of Edgware once again hosted a BBQ Event. Despite the heavy rain that came down on Wednesday, the BBQ was very well attended and everyone enjoyed the night.
Levi Tenenbaum (Irvine, CA) and Bassy Teller (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Tuesday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Y., the child of a Hareidi family in Jerusaelm, took his own life a few days ago. Family members are pointing fingers at the Yeshivas he attended – and those he didn’t.
Things are coming up roses for a Chabad House in Suburban Chicago. NSW Chabad’s Community Garden, which began construction last month, has already developed into a full-fledged patch of 12 individual plots, 10 of which are already reserved and in the first stages of sprouting and the other two available for year-long leases.
Everyone is saying that there is a shidduch crisis going on these days, but in my experience there is really only a Shadchan crisis.
A 16-year-old boy was charged with murdering a man in Crown Heights after a spat over money, police sources said Tuesday.
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