Ten days ago, a group of Chabad Shluchim and Chabad Terror Victims Project (CTVP) supporters from the United States came to Israel to volunteer and support the soldiers, displaced families, and especially the families of the hostages. Yesterday (Monday, November 13), almost 200 family members of the hostages flew to NY to pray at the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Ohel.
Tonight Chassidim around the world celebrate the joyous day of Rosh Chodesh Kislev, the day that the Rebbe returned home for the first time after suffering a major heart attack just thirty-eight days earlier on Shemini Atzeres 5738.
As hundreds of immediate relatives of the hostages held in Gaza arrived at the Ohel Monday night, they were met with a welcome event as they headed to pray at the holy site. The family members will visit Crown Heights and travel to Washington, DC where they will participate in the historic rally.
Close to 4000 Chabad Shluchim (emissaries) gathered in New York yesterday for their international conference; this is how they opened the event.
A group of approximately 175 immediate family members of the hostages being held in Gaza are landing in New York this evening having flown in from Eretz Yisroel to visit the Rebbe’s Ohel and join the massive rally in Washington.
A fire in Brooklyn that killed three family members over the weekend was sparked by a lithium-ion battery, FDNY officials said on Monday.
Chevra Hatzalah has released a public memo notifying the Jewish community that it will have teams of Hatzalah volunteers available to assist those who need during this week’s Washington Rally.
Gedalia Rosenbluh (Monsey, NY) to Gitta Landa (Toronto, Canada) L’Chaim: Today, Monday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown St
Zalman Lew (Peoria, AZ) to Mushka Rivkin (Northridge, CA) L’Chaim: Tonight, Monday, 8:30pm at the JCM
Thousands of Shluchim packed an enormous event hall for the highlight of the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the Gala Banquet. Held this year in the early afternoon, the banquet did not disappoint.
Watch this incredible short film aired for the Shluchim at the International Kinus Hashluchim that took place this past week in New York.
After multiple incidents of people firing guns at Montreal Jewish Schools, the local police have beefed up security, including a mounted patrol outside the Lubavitch Yeshiva of Montreal.
At 5:52am Monday morning, a Crown Heights resident recognized a crime in progress at Prime Ave on Kingston. A man had damaged the store and stolen an electric scooter chained up there. So he called Crown Heights Shomrim and they responded.
Thousands of Shluchim packed an enormous event hall for the highlight of the annual Kinus Hashluchim, the Gala Banquet. Held this year in the early afternoon, the banquet did not disappoint.
The media recently reported that for the first time in decades, Israel Defense Force soldiers prayed in the ancient synagogue in Gaza. The archaeological excavation was carried out to uncover the remains and associated finds of the 6th–7th century CE synagogue and to conserve it. The archaeologists considered that the synagogue served as a place of prayer for the Jewish community in Gaza until the seventh century CE, and that it was destroyed in the Early Islamic period.
In a world filled with a seemingly impenetrable darkness, with young Jewish children and the elderly held hostage by a genocidal terror organization and Israel and the Jews under attack, 6,500 rabbis and Jewish lay leaders gathered today to send a message of Jewish unity, strength, and hope to their brethren in Israel and around the world.
How do we get our kids excited about Torah and Judaism? The best thing you can do for them: Let them join in and participate.
