A year ago, as part of the Faithful and Fortified Series, the My Encounter with the Rebbe team interviewed Yaakov Peri, Shin Bet Head from 1988 until 1994.
A member of the Chabad-Lubavitch sect and a resident of Brooklyn’s heavily chasidic Crown Heights neighborhood, Dov Ber Cohen had no diploma and no career goal when he finished his yeshiva high school two years ago.
A homeless man accused of using an improvised projectile to damage a Los Angeles-area Jewish community center was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday, prosecutors said.
Riding a groundswell of support for the Conservative Party that will allow Prime Minister Stephen Harper to preside over his first-ever majority government, Toronto businessman and author Mark Adler won in the York Centre electoral district Monday, setting him up to become his party’s first-ever Jewish MP.
We are pleased to present our Forty Seventh online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
In his first radio show following the death of Osama Bin Laden, radio host Michael Savage goes on an anti-Semitic rant in a response to a caller. The caller identifies himself as a teacher in an Orthodox Jewish school, and asks Savage for advice what he should tell his students who are taught by their Rabbi’s that Jews are not supposed to rejoice upon the death of their enemies.
The Rebbe’s Riders, a group of Jewish motorcyclists, will be participating in The Great Parade in Brooklyn, New York, this Lag B’Omer morning, May 22, 2011 and is inviting Jewish bikers to join our group as we parade in front of tens of thousands of people!
Honda is expanding a recall for airbags that might explode with dangerous force by an additional 833,000 vehicles.
Once again the Chinuch Office will be hosting two conferences for teachers this summer. The conferences feature workshops and lectures by renowned experts in education. The conference for men will take place on July 3-4 [1-2 Tammuz] and for women on July 25-26 [23-24 Tammuz].
The Marcus Brothers, known for their smash hit ‘Yalili,’ have composed another hit – ‘Parade, Paradin’ – to promote this year’s Great Parade. It is an irresistibly fun song that captures the power and energy of Jewish unity. The video features many schools and stores in the Tri-State area, well-known Jewish businesses, corporate partners of the Parade and more. With its release, and with news of additional acts and plans for the event being made public daily, excitement is building in the run up to The Great Parade 5771.
This week, Chabad.org’s video site Jewish.TV launched a new series with Rabbi Chay Amar studying the famous discourse of the Previous Rebbe entitled “Naaseh Na Aliyas Kir Ketana.” The discourse from the book known as Kuntreisim Alef is considered to be on of the fundamental “avodadikke maamarim” and provides important insight into how to pray.
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) urged the army to modify a regulation banning facial hair in order to allow rabbis to serve as chaplains.
Yerucham Katz (New Haven, CT) and Sarah Karp (Crown Heights)
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Nine Chabad institutions are in line for a chance to win money for their institutes in a new Chase competition!
All hail Nissan. The Japanese automaker has been selected to produce the “Taxi of Tomorrow” after submitting a bid based on its NV200 minivan design, sources said.
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of Rebbetzin Sarah Esther Holtzberg OBM who passed away this morning in Jerusalem at the age of 93. She was the Rebbetzin of Reb Moshe Tzvi Holtzberg ZT”L
A descendent of the Baal Shem Tov, the Maharal of Prague, and the Tosfos Yom Tov, Rebbetzin Holtzberg is survived by her children, Avrohom (Crown Heights), Yona (Boro Park), Nachman (Crown Heights), Shlomo (Crown Heights), Yisroel (Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel), Itche Yankel (Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel), Berel Holtzberg (Jeruslaem), Meir Yecheskel (Beital Eilit, Israel), Miriam Devora Reches (Israel), Feiga Bookspan (Beital Eilit), Yehudis Linder (Israel), and Ettil Levinson (Israel).
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