Seven and a half years ago, Rabbi Mendel Matusof and his wife Rebbetzin Henya Matusof dedicated their lives to providing the Jewish community at the University of Wisconsin a home away from home.
Despite the ongoing controversy surrounding Tannenbaum Chabad House’s disaffiliation from Northwestern, there has been no apparent drop in the number of students at Friday night Shabbat dinners.
In honor of the Rebbe Rashab’s birthday today, Mendel Danzinger, a young Shliach in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, gives a tour of the Rebbe Rashab’s home and resting place.
Tzali and Chana Mala (nee Itkin) Borenstein (Whitby, Canada)
Alex Clare is really just a nice Jewish boy. Sure, his hit “Too Close” is currently the seventh most popular song in the United States and his music video has garnered more than 18 million hits on YouTube. But at the end of the day, he likes to get his dose of inspiration from studying the Tanya.
Yossi (ben Col. Jacob) Goldstein (Crown Heights) and Toba Goldfein (Philadelphia, PA)
A Minnesota filmmaker sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in the Iowa Film Office scandal was denied an appeal of her sentence Wednesday by the Iowa Court of Appeals.
Tzivos Hashem of Melbourne and the local community celebrated the completion of “Leiby’s Torah” in honor of Leiby Kletzky, OBM, a member of Tzivos Hashem who was brutally murdered in Brooklyn last summer.
No words can properly describe the destruction in Sea Gate caused by Hurricane Sandy. No home was spared. Everyone suffered some type of damage, with many homes totally destroyed.
The Ahavas Chesed Center in Crown Heights, led by Rabbi Avraham Leider, hosted a meaningful and inspiring Shabbos for several Jewish victims of Hurricane Sandy.
Rabbi Eli Goodman, Shliach in Long Beach, NY, which was hard hit by Hurricane Sandy, is assisted in his rescue and relief efforts by the National Guard.
One of the places hit hardest by Hurricane Sandy, was Staten Island. With 19 deaths and hundreds of homes destroyed, many people are dislocated and in need of basic human necessities.
In four days since the inception of Chabad’s Hurricane Relief Fund by Merkos, $70,000 has been raised and allocated. “The needs are much more severe than we imagined. Mosdos have been seriously damaged, many Shluchim homes were hit hard by the storm and communities need vital services,” said Rabbi Mendel Sharfstein of Chabad Headquarters.
When you live close to the ocean, and a storm comes, it means trouble. When you live with an ocean two blocks one way and the bay a couple of blocks the other way, it means double trouble.
Hundreds of women and girls turned out Sunday night in support of Ten Yad, an organization which helps Kallas. The event was held in the Razag Ballroom in Crown Heights, with a lavish food buffet, an auction viewing capped off by enthralling entertainment.
Despite losing electrical power due to Hurricane Sandy, it did not faze the Bochurim in Lubavitch Yeshiva of Monsey. With electricity and water being shut off for 3 days, the Yeshiva Davened and learned by the sunlight from the windows.
A thief steals an iPhone from a woman on the subway in Budapest, Hungary.
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