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.
A special Luncheon was held today at the Jewish Children’s Museum, to honor those who worked tirelessly to ensure the success of The Great Parade this past Lag B’omer.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like present a series of Photos of the Rebbe at Children’s rallies in the mid 1970’s, with special thanks to the Schildkraut and Levin families.
The mundane act of making bread is transformed into a spiritual opportunity when baking challah for Shabbat. Each one of the seven ingredients has mystical and psychological significance. Kabbalists say that the blessings from this mitzvah are so great that every woman should try to make challah at least once a year.
Lubavitcher Yeshivas 8th grade students gathered on front step of their school to pose for a grade picture.
Ice cream sundaes and cheesecake will take center stage during celebrations of the upcoming two-day Shavuot holiday, which will begin this year on Tuesday evening, June 7. Commemorating the giving of the Torah, which began with the transmission of the Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai more than 3,300 years ago, Shavuot is traditionally celebrated with dairy feasts, readings of the Decalogue and all-night study sessions.
Between 2001 and 2007, nine children died falling from windows, according to a report the Health Department issued in 2009. An audit by the New York City comptroller’s office has found deficiencies in the city’s window-guard enforcement program, which prevents children from falling through open windows.
For the first time in more than 80 years, Jews in the capital of Buryatia – Ulan-Ude – marked an important event in the life of the community. An 8-day-old boy of one of the community members entered into the covenant of Abraham our Father through the commandment of Brit Mila.
From the producers of the all star Unity for Justice project comes a new documentary film that will shed light on the chain of events leading up to the imprisonment of meat-packing executive Sholom Rubashkin. A father of ten with no previous convictions, the 52 year old Rubashkin was sentenced to 27 years in Federal Prison on charges of bank fraud.
Sarah Palin visited New York tourist spots sporting a large Star of David around her neck.
Pictures from the Lechaim of Laibel Kessler (Montreal, Canada) and Mushkie Shemtov (Crown Heights) took place in Beis Rivkah in Crown Heights.
Many Young Lubavitch families from across Southern California joined together at the picturesque Chabad Running Springs Resort this past weekend, some three hundred men, women and children in total; for the Young Lubavitch Chevra of Southern California’s 4th Annual Shabbaton.
A 14-year-old Brooklyn boy was shot to death just blocks from his home, police said Thursday.
Just three months after inaugurating the Australian capital’s first Jewish ritual bath, Canberra’s local Jewish community is celebrating a new milestone: the purchase of a disused childcare center to house the city’s first Jewish preschool.
Because of a Catholic holiday, alternate-side street-cleaning regulations will be suspended in New York City on Thursday June 2 2011. Other regulations will remain in effect. Parking meters will be in effect.
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