2:35 PM: Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has phoned Noam and Aviva Shalit, the parents of captive IDF soldier Gilad, explaining “since taking office I have waited to make this call. A deal has been reached to bring Gilad home. I have a majority in the cabinet. Gilad is coming home!”
A riveting new film for women by Chabad Israeli filmmaker Tali Avrahami, The Fence (HaGader) is the intense and inspiring story of a Jewish family during a critical point in history. During the 1800s, the Jewish people were experiencing the devastating Cantonist practice of the Czars–which wrenched young Jewish boys away from their families to complete their childhood and young adulthood in the brutal Russian Army–coupled with the destructive enticements of the assimilationist Haskalah intellectual movement. The film’s message is timeless, and eerily relevant to the era we live in today.
Columbus City Schools and the Lori Schottenstein Chabad Center’s LifeTown in New Albany accepted a $150,000 sponsorship gift to fund the LifeTown curriculum for district’s special-needs program this school year.
Thousands of palm fronds have been smuggled from Egypt and have made their way to Israel and the United States, veteran palm frond traders said Monday, despite the Egyptian ban on their export ahead of the upcoming Sukkot holiday.
City workers have removed signs warning women in a Hasidic neighborhood in Brooklyn to step aside for men.
The Rubashkin Petition, now in it’s third week, has launched a massive new campaign entitled “Fortune 500,” with the goal to become number one in petitions gathered in a 30 day span.The plan is to get 500 people who really care to commit themselves to getting 25 signatures each.
The following are important safety tips – courtesy of the Jewish Fire Prevention Organization – to ensure that you have a happy and safe Sukkos!
The Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FJCR) has expressed outrage over anti-Semitic graffiti painted on buildings in downtown Moscow. The graffiti imitate leaflets one could see in the streets of Kyiv ahead of mass killings of Jews at Babi Yar during the Nazi occupation of the city, FJCR’s press service has told Interfax.
A bevy of leading London firms, including Deloitte LLP, Taylor Wessing, Mishcon de Reya, and Speechly Bircham, are partnering with Chabad-Lubavitch UK, to bring a large 48-square meter sukkah to the fast-expanding New Street Square development in The City.
Cryptic messages written in the sky over lower Manhattan – part of a kooky art project – mystified and unnerved New Yorkers Sunday afternoon.
Two deer died and another was rescued and set free after being pulled from the water near the Brooklyn-side of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge Wednesday in what experts are calling the first time in 50 years that deer have attempted to colonize the Borough of Kings.
The Talmidim of Lubavitch Yeshiva in Montreal took part in a unique and very special Sukkah competition this year. A selection of mishnayos Sukkah presenting various types of kosher and non-kosher sukkos were given to the talmidim and they were required to present models of these sukkos, with explanations of why they are kosher or posul.
Once again, every boardroom, conference room, and ballroom was used to facilitate the overwhelming turnout for Chabad of the Conejo’s Yom Kippur Service at the luxuries Hyatt Westlake Plaza Hotel in Southern California. The huge Grand Ballroom was filled to capacity for Kol Nidre, Yizkor and Neilah with over 1600 adults in attendance over Yom Kippur.
In tribute to the late CEO of Apple Steve Jobs, Bloomberg Businessweek published various quotes Jobs made during his lifetime, with related or inspirational photos as a backdrop. One such quote was superimposed over a photo of the Rebbe’s Shluchim.
The nine Jews remaining in Iraq, a country with a Jewish history that dates back 2,600 years, were told by an Anglican priest that they must leave because their names appeared in a WikiLeaks cable.
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