Tonight at 9:30 PM, will be the first of 5 weekly Global Achdus Teleconference Calls in the merit of Sholom Rubashkin. This is the first time such an initiative has ever taken place.
Three rabbinical students set off on a cross-country bike ride on Sunday morning, the first part of their journey a testament to the true meaning of friendship. On the track of Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy in Livingston, 100 special needs cyclists joined them to raise awareness for the Friendship Circle.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Students, along with their mashpiim, celebrated the end of a fascinating year with a grand barbecue banquet. Mashpiim and Students alike spoke Divrei Torah and words of inspiration, and shared their memories of the past year.
Over the past 40 years, the “public enemy number one” of food has been fat. We spend billions of dollars per year on low-fat foods, fake-fat chips, pills that block the absorption of fat into the digestive system, and all types of specials diets and cookbooks. And, in the past 30 years, we have reduced the amount of fat in our diet by 34% on average. The problem is, we aren’t any thinner or healthier for all this effort. Actually, we are larger and unhealthier than ever. One reasons for this is that there are some fats that are good for you, but we are not including them in our diet.
With a team hard at work for nearly two years on the project, the central educational office of Chabad-Lubavitch is about to launch a new educational computer software program that, according to Rabbi Nochem Kaplan, could well transform the face of the Jewish day school system in the United States, if not the entire world. By streamlining the way teachers impart Judaic studies and Hebrew language content to their students, explains the veteran educator, the program opens up a variety of opportunities for tailoring a curriculum to each individual student.
State lawmakers on Friday passed an omnibus bill that extends the city’s rent laws, caps property taxes, and raises tuition at SUNY and CUNY schools.
Toeiva marriage is legal in New York State. Governor Cuomo, a strong proponent of “equality,” stalwartly pursued its passage, making it his signature legislative achievement. Unlike Assemblyman Dov Hikind’s false assumptions that the New York Assembly doesn’t have the votes, it passed the Democratic-led Assembly by a large margin, and the Republican-led Senate didn’t do anything to stop the bill. The bill still faces many hurdles, and we should not yet surrender; however, as the headlines proclaimed, New York now became the beacon of darkness for the entire nation regarding this matter.
Forty-nine seasons have come and gone since the New York Metropolitans first stumbled onto the Major League Baseball scene in 1962.
It may be difficult to fathom those four National League Pennants, two World Series titles and millions of head-aches that have since passed when Casey Stengel managed the club that couldn’t pitch precisely, mesmerizing fans at the Polo Grounds with its ineptitude on the base-path and on-target throwing failures.
The Transportation Security Administration is changing its policy on how screeners can search children, the agency’s head has said.
This past Wednesday night, Cheder Chabad of Monsey held its second boys 8th grade graduation! Cheder principal Rabbi Wolowik welcomed the gathered crowd and introduced Ruvi Litzman, a talmid of the 8th grade, to act as MC.
This past Wednesday, Anash of Crown Heights celebrated the Siyum of a Sefer Torah written by Reb Avrohom Barber. The Torah was written L’Zecher Nishmas his father; Hakodosh R. Eliyahu ben R. Yakov Barber, his Mother M’ Itta bas R. Naftali Isser Halevi, and his brother R. Dov Ber ben R. Eliyahu Barber.
The Mechanchim will sign a Pan Kloli for Gimmel Tammuz at the Kinus HaMechanchim.
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a unique photo of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe Joseph Isaac Schneerson, circa 1938, with special thanks to Rabbi Dan Levin.
Scientists have developed a new tool that could improve treatment and prevention of aggressive behavior by children and adolescents in schools and in the community.
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