The Oholei Torah Kindergarten Division, both on Eastern Parkway and in East Flatbush, celebrates with great joy the entire two months of Adar.
ASPEN, CO — The Hebrew language has no specific word for “skiing.” The word used — “golshim” — literally means “to slide,” and is also used to describe surfing, even surfing the Internet. Which does not mean skiing is nonexistent in Israel. Located in the country’s extreme north is Mount Hermon — pitched as a “magical winter wonderland,” even if the snow is mostly ice, the lift lines are predictably long, and the roads to get to the slopes are usually clogged.
In just one week, Shluchim grew the number of shared files on ShluchimExchange.com’s Purim database by more than 200% as part of a massive Purim upload campaign.
Michael Caras (Clarksville, MD) and Leah Larson (Sharon, MA)
Boys in Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street got the exciting opportunity to ride a horse and buggy today, just like Mordechai did in Shushan after the Jewish people were saved from the evil decree Haman brought over them.
A Chabad rabbi has called to strike back at soldiers in the same way they act against settlers, predicting a civil war among Israel’s Jews.
Well-connected New Yorkers have taken the unusual step of suing the city to remove a controversial bicycle lane in a wealthy neighborhood of Brooklyn, the most potent sign yet of opposition to the Bloomberg administration’s marquee campaign to remake the city’s streets.
After a decade of local wanderings, Chabad Jewish Center of Northwest Bergen County is in contract to purchase a former church as its permanent Franklin Lakes address.
Among the Arab nations, the mightiest despots, who have been ruling with an iron fist for 30, 40, or even 50 years, have overnight been stripped of their power. It just goes to show us how tenuous a grip these rulers really have.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — An elderly Jewish man was injured after falling, or getting hit by a car as he crossed an Empire Boulevard intersection.
“The buildings looked like pancakes” is how Mrs. Friedman described the after math of the New Zealand earthquake, which claimed the lives of over 65 people.
Over 200 students attended a groundbreaking Chabad on Campus UK student Shabbaton in Oxford this past weekend that attracted students from over seventeen universities across the UK, as well as many locals.
Lubavitchers around the world have been hearing about the miraculous events that happened to the Shluchim in New Zealand. After the terrifying earthquake, a shlucha ran down five flights of stairs with her son Moshe to a scene of chaos. Not every building was as lucky as hers, many buildings close by were flattened like “pancakes” as she says.
Community leaders and elected officials including Nassau County executive Edward Mangano, Nassau County Legislature Vincent Muscarella, Town of Hempstead Councilman Edward Ambrosino, Rabbi Tuvia Teldon regional director Chabad of Long Island, Rabbi Anchele Perl director Chabad of Mineola and co director of Chabad of Long Island, were present at the prestigious Garden City Hotel on New York’s Long Island to celebrate with Rabbi Yossi and Chaya Rochel Lieberman and Chabad of West Hempstead at their annual awards dinner last week.
The company that makes Skippy peanut butter is recalling two of its spreads that may be contaminated with salmonella. No illnesses have been linked to the recall of the Skippy reduced fat creamy and reduced fat chunky brands.
Over 1,000 people came out on Sunday to greet a new Sefer Torah written in memory of Rabbi Eliezer Wenger OBM.
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