NORWALK, CT — More than 150 Torah educators from across the US, and from as far away as, Melbourne, Australia, Moscow, Russia, and S. Paulo Brazil, convened at the Dolce Conference Center in southern Connecticut earlier this week for a two-day conference on education.
Berel Hassan (Wesley Hills, NY) and Shternie Stock (Crown Heights)
Duty-free shops were once a hidden gem in airports, with the best deals a country could offer.
Lubavitch on the Palisades is preparing to seek expansion approvals, and history shows it’s gotten the routine down seamlessly, from passing municipal reviews to communicating with the community.
Shmuel and Raizel (nee Babushkin) Stange (Montreal, Canada)
Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumors, according to a new study on Saturday.
Mayor Bloomberg did a flip-flop in the direction of French critics who’ve denounced the NYPD’s “perp walk” of Dominique Strauss-Kahn by calling such public displays “outrageous” and a “circus.”
Rabbi Yitzchok Moully, youth rabbi at the Chabad Jewish Center in Basking Ridge, wears many hats there: his responsibilities include the center’s Hebrew School, Bar and Bat Mitzvah training, and running the teen group.
Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim packed into Beis Rivkah’s Rosa Hall in Campus Chomesh for a farbrengen marking the seventeenth Gimmel Tammuz.
Hundreds gathered this past Tuesday, Gimmel Tammuz, in the Yeshiva Centre in Sydney, Australia for a farbregen with a special guest – Rabbi Moshe Feller, Shliach in Minnesota.
A sizable crowd joined the Beis Medrash for a Farbrengen marking Gimmel Tammuz with Rabbi Yehuda Leib Schapiro, Rosh Yeshiva of the Yeshiva Gedolah in Miami Beach.
Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner farbrenged at Beis Shmuel last night, in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Nine camps from South Florida joined together for the annual CGI unity day, organized by Rabbi Shmuly G. of Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
As the day progresses, thousands make their way to the Rebbe’s Ohel to mark his 17th yohrtzeit. Lines extended at times all the way down Francis Lewis Boulevard.
Four years ago, thirteen-year-old Menachem Mendel Moshiach passed away, just a few weeks shy of his eighth grade graduation. Today, Gimmel Tammuz, his family and Crown Heights residents welcomed a new Sefer Torah which was written in his memory.
Chabad to Williamsburg—how far does the love for a fellow Jew go? Especially one who strayed?
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a moving encounter told by Rabbi Nachman Twersky, whose grandfather the Rachmastrivka Rebbe, together with the Lubavitcher Rebbe, helped bring a former student of his who was living in Williamsburg Brooklyn at the time back to Torah observance, showing how through Divine Providence a lost Jewish spark can be rekindled.
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