Astronomers are tracking an asteroid about the size of an aircraft carrier that on Tuesday will pass by Earth, within the moon’s orbit, in the closest approach of such an object in a generation.
Chabad of SE Morris County will once again be providing Thanksgiving dinners free of charge to individuals throughout Morris County who are alone or home bound during the holiday. Catered dinners will be delivered by volunteers to the homes of those in need on Thanksgiving morning, helping to share the holiday spirit with others.
Sholom and Sarale Lesches (Montreal, Canada)
A beautiful two story building, registered by the city of Hollywood as “historic”, which was originally built in the early 1920’s, and for the first part of the last century was a Methodist Temple, was recently purchased by Chabad of Northeast Hollywood/Shul of the Lakes.
Last Wednesday the Talmidim Hashluchim to Toras Emes departed to their post in Jerusalem. This year marks a centennial of Shlichus to the Yeshivah, with the first group being sent by the Rebbe Rashab who founded the Yeshiva in 5672 – 1912.
Would a compassionate and loving G-d order the murder of a man’s only son? This video takes an in-depth look at the enigmatic tale of Abraham’s sacrifice, its role as a turning point in Jewish thought and its meaning to each of us in our daily lives.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Did you know that you are only allowed to park for up to two hours at a time in front of the stores on Kingston Avenue? Traffic agents have been spotted on Kingston issuing parking tickets for this very violation.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Not even a full week has passed since the completion of the Kingston Avenue paving and the much dreaded sounds of jackhammers have returned. A crew of construction workers was busy cutting up the fresh asphalt at the intersection of President Street this morning.
Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, head of the famed Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem and member of the Torah Council of Sages of Degel HaTorah, passed away early Tuesday morning at the age of 68. He apparently suffered a heart attack.
The Brooklyn man accused of killing Leiby Kletzky will have to face trial in Brooklyn after an appeals court skewered his bid for a change of venue.
French President Nicholas Sarkozy and Barack Obama re-learned a lesson about foreign diplomacy: speak softly and make sure your microphone is turned off before you bad-mouth Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and call him “a liar.”
This photo from the archives of Shmuel Zalmanov depicts chassidim farbrenging in Kfar Chabad in the ’70s. Can anyone identify who they are?
After being without a chief rabbi for three years, the city state of Hamburg formally elected Chabad’s Rabbi Shlomo Bistritzky to the position Monday evening.
Moishe Weiss (Manchester, UK) and Chana Gutnick (Melbourne, Australia)
Yehudah and Sarah Adelist (Crown Heights)
As Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries in Athens for the past 10 years, Rabbi Mendel and Nechama Hendel have seen it all in their service of the local Jewish community and the many tourists who annually visit the Greek capital. But the couple got a new experience this past August when they became restaurateurs, opening up Gostijo, Greece’s only kosher restaurant.
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