Geologist Tovia Luskin, a Chabad-Lubavitch Chasid whose Givot Olam drilling company discovered an oil field 20 km northeast of Tel Aviv, was named to Globes financial news service’s “Men of the Year” list.
NEW YORK CITY [CHI] — It may have been the cool gusts of wind, or the fact that he was running a marathon, which caused his tzitzis to be swept into the air as his feet pounded down Bedford Avenue that day. The knowledge that his entire community was supporting him kept the Shliach running. This day, which he had previously looked forward to every year, took on a new meaning.
A New York City man was sentenced to 25 years behind bars Friday for teaming up with his girlfriend to savagely beat her 4-year-old son to death.
BANGALORE, India [CHI] — Chanukah parties in the Chabad House in Bangalore was celebrated throughout the eight nights with a wide variety of people in attendance, including businessmen, students as well as families and children. But the special story of finding a lone Jew, who has been in India for more than 40 years, particularly brightened the local Shluchims Chanukah.
WINNIPEG — The new Lubavitch Jewish Learning Centre here officially opened recently with a dedication ceremony attended by more than 500 guests.
The throng inside the Meadowlands Exposition Center — Israeli women in long skirts, Hasidim in floor-length coats, Wal-Mart buyers in Dockers — might have struck some as the casting call for a Mel Brooks movie. However, the crowd had come to Secaucus, N.J., in late October for the annual extravaganza known as Kosherfest, a two-day trade show connecting kosher food buyers and sellers from across the globe.
A few weeks ago, the acclaimed Chabad House Compass Magazine released its second issue to the family of shluchim. The new edition created quite a buzz and was received with much appreciation and interest.
There will be a Rally at the Ohel Wednesday, December 22nd, for all children ages 5 through 12. buses will leave from 770 at 5:00pm and return at 7:30pm.
Police are looking for the vandals who toppled gravestones in a Jewish cemetery in Brooklyn, authorities said yesterday.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Sara Bluma bas Yechiel Mordechai Hacohen Stern OBM, wife of R. Chaim OBM.
She is survived by her children Ruth Pand (Jerusalem), Rina Boyvier (Jerusalem), R. Shmuel Stern (Rechovot), and R. Mordechai Stern (Crown Heights).
“In Odessa we closed the shutters when my grandfather lit the Menorah. Now, we celebrate in public, both indoors and outdoors”, said Rima Mazurovsky about the series of Chanukah events by Project Neshama – Chabad Lubavitch of Brighton Beach and Manhattan Beach.
8th Day, Jewish music’s new sound, (Co-founded by brothers Rabbi Shmuely and Bentzi Marcus) are in the final phase of their new album titled “Chasing Prophecy.”
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Talmidim began a new Mivtzah today, ‘Cleaning the Air’! In yesterday’s Hayom Yom the Rebbe writes that everyone must clean the air by learning Torah wherever they go. Students were seen in stores on Kingston where they learned and received a prize and a treat from the store owners.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Approximately 200 men attended the grand opening of The Beis Medrash on Motzei Shabbos, which is located at The Crown Condos at 580 Crown Street.
In this week issue of Ami Magazine, the Editor in Chief Rabbi Yitzchok Frankfurter interviewed OU Kosher’s CEO, Rabbi Menachem Genack, in an article titled A Statesman and A Rabbi. The OU CEO remembered an incident with Rabbi Yosef Dov Soloveichik who was learning with his students the Alter Rebbe’s Lekutei Torah:
A rare total lunar eclipse is set to darken the night sky on Tuesday.
The celestial event is expected to begin after 1 a.m. EST on Dec. 21, and will continue for more than three hours.
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