One after another, men in yarmulkes or black hats, some sporting long beards, pleaded with the planning and zoning board to let a Jewish Orthodox school operate a dormitory in the city.
Congregants of Chabad in Hallendale Beach and from elsewhere in South Florida were greatly inspired by a Farbrengen on Motzei Shabbos with renowned Mashpia Reb Shlomo Zarchi. The farbrengen was followed by a moving Slichos led by Chazzan Yossy Lebovics.
Mamesh Music held its first open house Monday night for the girls’ program of 5773. Director of the girls’ division Dana Pestun, along with the other girls’ teachers, Chaya Mushka Goldstein and Chaya Yavitch, hosted the Open House, showed people around the new premises, demonstrated the instruments and answered questions.
Mendy and Bruria (nee Freeman) Efune (Crown Heights)
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A reader sent us this photo of a container of parsley for sale in an Israeli supermarket. Just to be clear, the parsley is very, very Kosher.
Sounds all up and down the musical scale emanated from ram’s horns tooted by about 35 boys and girls on Sunday – a precursor to the Jewish high holy days of Rosh Hashanah.
Nestled on a wooded hillside just outside Morristown, the Rabbinical College of America has become an international force in Orthodox Judaism’s Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Thousands of years of Jewish history has come home to Oceanside, California with Sunday’s dedication of the new community Torah scroll for the city’s Chabad Jewish Center.
Forget the Manischewitz: the Livermore Valley plans to pass the Cabernet at the table. The Chabad of the Tri-Valley and Mitchell Katz Winery are jointly jumping into the kosher winemaking business, just in time for the Jewish new year.
Crown Heights [CHI] — Late last Friday night, the NYPD removed over a dozen exotic animals from an apartment in Crown Heights. All told, police seized 13 animals, including two alligators, two bearded dragons, five pythons, a boa constrictor, a gecko, a scorpion, and a tarantula.
A reader sent us this photo of a strange advertisement in Jerusalem. What appears at first sight to be a typical Meshichist banner in the signature yellow red and blue, turns out to be something even more confusing: The sign declares that Moshiach is in Tel-Aviv. Can anyone explain this phenomenon?
On Wednesday, Chai Elul, an unprecedented event took place in Rechovot, Israel: Ten Lubavitcher yungelight received certification to be Dayonim (“Yodin Yodin”).
Lubavitcher rapper Ben Schwed, AKA BenYomen, a student at the Mayanot Institute in Israel, gives thanks to the Lord in this new music video.
Tomorrow (Tuesday) Bonei Olam of Crown Heights is hosting its 2nd annual auction to raise much needed funds for those experiencing the nisayon of infertility. Bonei Olam has helped over 3,000 Jewish couples achieve the dream of becoming a family by providing hundreds of thousands of dollars in financial assistance for medical costs and insurance.
Chabad of the West Coast’s 32nd annual L’Chaim “To Life!” Telethon raised a total of 4,039,902 dollars during an intensely emotional 3 hour extravaganza. The total was slightly below last year’s tally of $4.2 million.
This year for Rosh Hashanah the Besht Center will be holding its tefilos at the Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall, located at 570 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.]. Rabbi Shmuel Kuperman will inspire the congregation with his melodies and speeches.
In the latest episode of her show ‘Jew in the City’, Allison Josephs explores the deeper meaning and discovers inspirational reflections on the Jewish practice of immersion in the Mikvah.
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