As we prepare for the upcoming Simchas Beis Hashoeva, I would like to propose some ideas to improve the event, ensuring it remains respectful, safe, and enjoyable, as befits the Rebbe’s shchuna.
Now the third-largest city in Maryland, Bowie, Maryland was once highly exclusive, and homes were sold only to white Christians. Today, it is home to a diverse and welcoming population.
Exactly 70 years after Rabbi Moshe Lazar, shliach to Italy today, opened the first Camp Gan Israel in the United States, and thirty-five years after his son – Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, began establishing Gan Israel summer camps in Russia – the camp directors summed up this year with great satisfaction.
A climate crisis led the Kings of Judah to construct a monumental dam in Jerusalem about 2,800 years ago.
For more than three years, GSD has trained over 200 men and women and has recently expanded to two additional locations. GSD offers separate classes for men and women over three-month cycles. Training is held every Sunday evening at Crunch Crown Heights.
The Powerball jackpot has soared to $815 million after there were no big winners in Monday’s drawing, marking the 7th largest prize in the game’s history.
Rabbi Benzion Alperowitz of Chabad of Bournemouth, UK, and his family, were the target of a hate crime this past Shabbos after their home was painted with hateful graffiti by a ‘coward’.
MK Yitzhak Goldknopf, United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party, is demanding a new framework be put in place to enable the financing of the Chabad Hassidim’s annual trip to New York with government resources and special exceptions for draft dodgers.
A caller made the right decision and called Shomrim around 2:30pm on Monday, within moments of a thief stealing an expensive double stroller. Thanks to the fast response by the volunteers and technical abilities, the thief was apprehended and stroller returned in under four minutes.
The end of an exemption on tariff duties for low-value packages coming into the United States is causing multiple international postal services to pause shipping as they await more clarity on the rule.
In a poignant expansion that’s touching hearts and promising brighter futures for struggling kids, the Bereishis Foundation announced three powerhouse additions to its boards on August 25, 2025.
Meet Rabbi Schneur and Bina Druk who are moving out on Shlichus to Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.
President Trump signed an executive order Monday meant to ban the burning of the American flag, an act currently protected under the First Amendment.
In July 2024, Rabbi Menachem and Daniela Lessoff moved to Richmond to launch Jewish Life at VCU — a new Chabad on Campus center — aimed at creating a visible, welcoming hub for Jewish students, under the guidance of Rabbi Yossel Kranz, director of Chabad of Virginia.
Anash and Shluchim are asked to please say Tehillim for חי’ שתחי’ בת שרה, a Shlucha in need of a Refuah Sheleima. Please say Kapital ‘כ and נ”ד.
As summer winds down, Chaim V’Chessed shares that various government offices across Israel are adjusting their schedules, while important deadlines are also approaching.
Continuing his interview series, Rabbi Chaim Dalfin interviews Rabbi Yosef Keller on his work on the new Sefer Tanya Hashalem.
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