In a report on last week’s mass Bar Mitzvah ceremony at the Western Wall organized by the Chabad Terror Victims Project, Israel’s Channel 10 News featured the tragic story of 13-year-old Eliad Shefi, who lost his older sister when Palestinian terrorists dressed as Israeli soldiers broke into their home in 2002.
As reported here on Crownheights.info, a new 1,600 page mafteach on all the Rebbe’s talks was just released by Rabbi Michoel Seligson. The mafteach sold out at Kehos after only 24 hours on the shelves.
When Ryan Dosetareh arrived at Georgia State University as a freshman in 2004 – primarily a commuter school for Atlanta-area students, many of GSU’s enrollees, like Dosetareh did, bunk at home with their parents – there wasn’t much going on in the way of on-campus Jewish organizations.
EXCLUSIVE: Have you ever watched a family, financially comfortable but not well to do, suddenly descend into debt because they had to marry off a child? Have you ever wondered why wedding ‘Takanos’ exist in almost every Jewish community except for Crown Heights? Have you ever wondered why it should cost a sum that many in our community count as a yearly salary just to marry off one child? Well, you are not alone.
The building that is currently home to Congregation Adas Israel, which holds weekly Shabbat services, may be sold to the Chabad-Lubavitch of the South Coast, in New Bedford, Massachusetts.
Two forms of religious extremism confronted me last week as I lectured in the United Kingdom and launched my new book at a press conference in Jerusalem.
Tanya, the foundational work of the Chabad movement written by Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi and first published in 1797, was printed by Chabad Center of Kendall led by Rabbi Yossi & Nechama Harlig at the home of Ben and Rochel Federman in Pinecrest, FL.
Reb Hirshel Chitrik, who passed away last week, would often visit Rebbetzin Chana. In a special interview with JEM a number of years ago, he told how the Rebbe would visit his mother in her home. “I saw how every time when the Rebbe would leave he would straighten the chairs and a photo on the wall. This occurred on the first, second and third time. When Rebbetzin Chana noticed that I had noticed she told me what was behind it, but asked me not to tell anyone…”
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich visited Shliach to Des Moines, Iowa Rabbi Yossi Jacobson to receive his blessing and support before Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation caucus.
Due to the overwhelming response to our Hey Teves mega sale, Kol Menachem will be extending our mega sale of up to 45% off the Kol Menachem Library and Lifestyle books. This sale will be extended till tonight January 2nd 11:59 pm.
All purchases must be made by Monday night 11:59 pm, to place your order visit: www.KolMenachem.com or call: (718) 951-6328
Crime is poised to climb in New York City for the first time in two decades. The uptick is all but certain, despite 11th-hour scrambling by police to keep their record-smashing crime-fighting streak intact.
This Chanuka, Rabbi Shmuly G., of Chabad Youth Network of Florida, and his traveling olive press show, saw thousands of Jewish children produce olive oil for Chanukah in over 50 schools and Synagogues in South Florida. [Update: Menorah parade photos added.]
Monticello, NY [CHI] — Someone broke into the Landfield Avenue Synagogue, AKA Chabad of Monticello, NY, on Friday or Shabbos and stole the Sefer Torah. Rabbi Benzion Chanowitz and his congragation arrived at the shul on Shabbos morning, horrified to discover that the Shul was ransacked and the Sefer Torah was missing.
Yale Wolf (Chicago, IL) and Rivky Grossbaum (St. Paul, MN)
L’chaim tonight, Monday at Beis Rivka
310 Crown St. [Between New York and Nostrand Ave.]
Moishy (ben Yossi) Korf (Crown Heights) and Rivka Moskovitz (Kharkov, Ukraine)
L’chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Each week day, 22 children living in Tijuana rise before the sun to catch a shuttle that takes them to school. Why wake so early? School isn’t just around the corner, or even in the next town over. Rather, these kids traverse 40 miles and one international border to arrive at Chabad Hebrew Academy in Poway, California.
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