Ask anyone involved with The Friendship Circle to describe the program, and you‟ll hear the same words of praise repeated by its volunteers, donors, families and staff – important, meaningful, rewarding.
Pictures from the wedding of Shua Hecht (Crown Heights) and Liba Schloss (Jerusalem) took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
Aharon (ben Michoel) Chazan (Crown Heights) and Leah (bas Simcha) Piekarski (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
Meir (Red) Roetter (Oak Park, MI) and Rena Jacobovitz (Oak Park, MI)
As basketball fans gathered at Miami’s American Airlines Arena ahead of Game 2 of the NBA Finals, a synagogue-on-wheels arrived to cheer own the home team.
The image of a bearded, black-hatted Jew with an evil grin and a bloody blade seems straight out of the annals of classic European anti-Semitism.
Ilyas Kashmiri, one of al-Qaida’s most active leaders, has been killed in a US drone attack in Pakistan’s South Waziristan tribal region, locals, officials and spokesman of the dreaded ‘313 Brigade’ said on Saturday.
Shavuot is the holiday in which Jews celebrate receiving the Torah from God. This year, Chabad of Pittsburgh can celebrate doubly.
An American ship carrying 34 passengers, some Jewish, is set to join the new Gaza-bound flotilla in June, according to a New York Times report Thursday.
Grocery stores and gas stations could soon be shelling out sacks of cash on electrical upgrades.
An 18-year-old man was arrested late Thursday in connection with Wednesday’s deadly shooting of a teenager in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
While some South Florida synagogues have closed their doors and others struggle with fewer people, a prominent Jewish scholar will offer some advice this weekend: Make newcomers feel like part of the family.
South African Jews recently welcomed a new arrival to the synagogue in Johannesburg’s Hyde Park suburb, greeting the “immigrant” from Israel with joyous singing, dancing and a lavish meal.
A man once approached his Rebbe demanding an explanation as to what made him so great.
“You eat and I eat,” argued the disciple, “You say a blessing before you eat, as do I. So what makes you so much greater than me?”
“What you say is correct,” said the Rebbe, “Indeed, you eat and I eat; you say a blessing before you eat, as do I. But there is one small difference,” asserted the Rebbe: “You see, while you say a blessing so you can eat, I eat so I can say a blessing!”
After a full month of busy preparations, beginning with Color War on Chof Ches Nissan, with the theme of “Tut Altz Vus Ir Kent,” and continuing with after-school Moshiach learning and projects, Beis Chaya Mushka had an exciting Mother-Daughter program yesterday.
A potted plant was thrown through the front window of the Chabad House at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) on Tuesday, May 31. The building is the site of regular Friday night and holiday dinners for UCI students and serves as the residence of UCI Chabad co-directors, Rabbi Zevi Tenenbaum and his wife, Miriam.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday he will not run for president or seek a fourth term at the helm of the US’s most populous city.
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