Like the rest of Christchurch’s scarred population, Jewish community members in New Zealand’s second-largest city are being forced by a seemingless endless stream of aftershocks to head as far away as possible from the epicenter of yesterday’s 6.3-magnitude earthquake.
NEW YORK — Smoking in New York City’s parks, beaches, boardwalks, pedestrian plazas and other public spaces will be banned from May 23 despite complaints about excessive meddling by government in people’s private lives.
We are pleased to present our thirty – eighth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Shimmy Greenwald (ben Dovid Aryeh of Crown Heights) and Tzini Sheinberger (Kfar Chabad)
L’Chaim Sunday night at Kfar Chabad Talmud Torah
First graders in Morah Bendet and Morah Vail’s Beis Rivkah classes got their first Siddur this morning in a special event with their proud parents in attendance! The girls accepted the Siddurim from their principal Mrs. Feldman.
Registration for this years Pesach Merkos Shlichus has just opened, and Bochurim who wish to participate are urged to sign up as soon as possible.
In a refreshing change of tone, an Illinois Chabad Center received approval from a village board to use a new building they acquired as a religious center through a ‘conditional use permit’. Not only did Chabad of Glenview receive approval, the board members wished them Mazal Tov and good luck with the new location.
You’re walking to work, making good time, and then… someone steps in front of you, moving at a snail’s pace. Or a tourist blocks your path to snap a picture. Or some knucklehead in front of you is focused on their Blackberry, not where they’re going.
This past Shabbos, in honor of Purim Koton the entire Yeshiva Gedola of London experienced a “Shabbos achdus” in Amsterdam, Holland. It was a very inspiring trip which I will remember for the rest of my life.
TZFAT — Gemara Pesachim was the topic of discussion when Rosh Pina’s Chief Rabbi and Shliach, Rabbi Avraham Dovidovich, visited Yeshivas Tzeirei HaShluchim for the latest round of student testing.
Last week in Toronto, KabbalahToons creator, Rabbi Tzvi Freeman, spoke with a live audience about his animated brainchild and revealed some of the deeper ideas hidden within the popular series.
Yosef Chaim Kurtz (Crown Heights/Los Angeles) and Chaya Goodman (Jerusalem/Boston)
Mendel and Esti Altein (Crown Heights)
Mordechai ad Esty (nee Benjaminson) Groner (Calgary, Canada)
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima.
Elishama Pinchas ben Devorah Leah, a 3-year old who is undergoing surgery today, Tuesday at 2 pm EST
A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand’s second-largest city Tuesday morning, sending buildings crashing to the street and toppling the city’s central Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Today, Monday, it was a cold wintery day outside, yet in Oholei Torah Kindergarten – East Flatbush Division, it was hot, lively and everyone was in the festive Purim Koton Mood.
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