Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine’s fourth largest city, has been rocked by four mysterious bombing which took place only minutes apart. The city, formerly known as Yekatrinoslav, was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s childhood hometown, where his father served as chief rabbi. It is also home to the largest Chabad House in the world, run by Rabbi Shmuel Kaminezki, who arrived there in 1989 while it was still part of the Soviet Union.
Popular event planner Heshy J of Scoop & Co. will give a presentation on Shavuos menu and setup at the United Lubavitch Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s annual auction this Sunday. Also, there will be a wine tasting for men in the afternoon hours.
Police in the Indian city of Pune deported an Iranian national last month after they discovered him spying on Israeli nationals and Jewish institutions in the city, the Pune Mirror reported on Thursday.
Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of the Inter-Provincial Cheif Rabbinate in Holland and member of the Rabbinical Centre of Europe, was made today an Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau, one of the highest civilian awards given by the Queen of Holland. The honour is usually given to princes of other royal families in Europe, diplomats, artists, and social activists. It is the first time in the history of the Dutch Jewish community where a rabbi has received this honour.
Over the past few years, several newly built and renovated Chabad Mikvahs have been named in honor of a particular person: ‘Mikvah Meir’ in Crown Heights, ‘Yankele’s Mikvah’ in Kfar Chabad, ‘Mei Menachem’ in a few locations , and many more. However, according to a newly discovered ‘Ksav Yad’ (handwritten note) of the Rebbe, the concept of naming a mikvah after a person is not accepted Chabad custom.
Rabbi Boruch Klar of the Lubavitch Center of Essex County, NJ gave the invocation and the benediction at the West Orange Chamber of Commerce Annual Community Awards Dinner on Wednesday night.
Torah Café presents an interview by Rabbi Yitzchok Schochet with Auschwitz survivor and Anne Frank‘s step-sister Eva Schloss, which took place last week on Yom Hashoa at the Mill Hill synagogue in London.
Two members of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Israel were among the 120 soldiers who received this year’s Presidential Award for Excellence during a nationally-televised ceremony Thursday morning in Jerusalem.
In today’s day and age we live with lots of easy access to explicit information. Magazine covers are displayed all over the supermarkets, showing every type of immoral act. The internet is infested with immorality and depravity. With all these environmental hazards, do you think this has no effect on your child? In today’s world it is almost impossible to shield our children from all this shmutz. Putting a paper bag over their heads just won’t work.
“Will Rogers never met a man he didn’t like. I never a met a man who didn’t like Rabbi Dovid Bryn,” said David Leone, a prominent South Florida educator, as he busily prepared to honor his spiritual mentor on the occasion of Rabbi Bryn’s tenth yohrzeit (anniversary of his passing).
The Merkos Chinuch Office summer Kinusim for Mechanchim and Mechanchos will each feature a series of presentations and workshops on the Danielson Framework for Enhancing Student Achievement, an educational program which has been taking the country by storm.
Bais Iyar takes on a new practical meaning for the students of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami. Students came to school wondering what a huge truck and crane were there for, only to witness the transformation of the beautiful school grounds to an all our rock climbing – palm tree extravaganza.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Mendel Tiefenbrun (London, UK) and Mushky Caytak (Ottawa, Canada), which took place Wednesday, April 25 at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
Meyer and Chaya (nee Karp) Rodal (Crown Heights)
Though it’s almost two months since the completion of the 30th cycle of the Daily Rambam – the teachings of Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon commonly known as Maimonides, the global celebrations of this momentous occasion still aren’t over.
Yesterday at Cheder at the Ohel, teachers became students and parents became teachers.
Under the guidance of their patient, devoted and enthusiastic teacher, Rabbi Moshe Stern, the boys of 4th grade in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Montreal produced a simply unbelievable project. They toiled and learned for many weeks about the 39 melachos, and put together a physical exhibition of them.
