Hassidic Rabbi Wins National Design Award

A Hasidic Rabbi from Brooklyn has won a prestigious national award for the best-designed book published in 2008.

Rabbi Chaim Miller, who authored and designed the Kol Menachem Passover Haggadah, was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award at a ceremony in the Roosevelt Hotel, New York, last week. Miller attributed his success to the influences of Kabbalah. “I have never had any formal training in design,” he confessed. “I think it was all those hours of studying the Kabbalah that must have nurtured my artistic soul.”

Security Measures Implemented for Upcoming Kinusim

BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — With each passing year the Kinus HaShluchim and Shluchos keeps growing, and with it the security concerns grow as well. The Vaad Hakinus sought a solution to remedy this concern, and came up with the idea of adding photos to the identification cards the attendees already wear.

New Video from JEM coming soon!

In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, JEM is releasing a new Video from the My Encounter with the Rebbe archive, called Sensitivity.; The Rebbe’s compassionate attention to “the little things”.

Culled from tens of hours of in-depth interviews, Sensitivity presents the simple but fascinating stories of those who felt the care and attention to their smallest needs exhibited by the Rebbe.

More details to come….

Cheder Chabad of Monsey Celebrates 10 Years!

Cheder Chabad of Monsey hosted a beautiful gala reception in honor of its 10th year anniversary this past Sunday night at the grand ballroom of K’hal Tzemach Tzedek Lubavitch of Monsey.

The evening began with welcoming remarks by Cheder Chabad’s Menahel, Rabbi Yisroel Shusterman. Rabbi Avrohom Wolowick, Principal of the Cheder Boys School, then recited the Rebbe’s Kapital of Tehillim which was followed by a Dvar Torah by Rabbi Boruch Lesches, the Rav of the Monsey Chabad community.