Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz serves as a chasidic mentor to the Chabad community of Rishon Letzion, also heading an evening kollel for Chasidut in Bnei Brak and lecturing at the Beit Rivkah seminary in Kfar Chabad. He was interviewed in his home in September 2014.
Limited options are readily available for students looking to fuse action and adventure with meaning and purpose during the summer. That all changed this summer when JewishU students were given a chance of a lifetime, with exclusive JewishU summer experiences in North Africa and the Middle East.
“Cantors Audition”, or in yiddish “Chazonim Oif Probeh”, the entertaining and witty rendition in English was sung by Lubavitch Chazzonim Aryeh Leib Hurwitz and Zevy Steiger.
Facing their second Rosh Hashana under fire, the Jews of Ukraine are preparing for the new year amid constant stress and anxiety. FJC and JRNU will provide thousands of food packages and honey jurs manufactured in a local Ukrainian facility that has been certified for a kosher run.
Rabbi Enan Francis, a famous Lubavitch educator, received the Harold Reingold Yavneh Award for leaders in Jewish Education from the Jewish Federation Of Houston. Listen to his acceptance speech, the award was well deserved.
Over four hundred community members recently celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah at the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah) in Melbourne. The Sefer Torah was written in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dovid and Ida Perlow, and dedicated by their children.
An IDF soldier is dead, and several others are injured after a ramming attack at a checkpoint near Modi’in.
Every Sunday morning, a group of men in their 20s descend upon the Jewish Community Center of Great Neck, on a peninsula between Manhasset and Little Neck bays off the Long Island Sound in New York. Before the shooting starts, they pause for a hallowed game day ritual: led by their spiritual coach — and the director of the JCC of Great Neck — Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zevy Geisinsky, they put on tefillin and pray.
Watch this weeks Shazak Parsha Production, with its spellbinding audiovisual storytelling of the parsha and Shazak style animations.
A delegation from the CHK, led by Member of the Beis Din of Crown Heights Rabbi Yosef Braun, has just completed an extensive inspection of the AgriStar plant in Postville Iowa.
Rabbi Lazer Avtzon joined The Crown Heights Insider Podcast to talk about the impact the explosion of shuls is having on our community, and the opportunities that this creates, if only we were willing to come together to grab them.
Benny Rogosnitzky, a Cantor at Park East Synagogue in Manhattan, wrote the following touching account of a nightmare vacation to Venice that ended in a beautiful way after he came across two Bochurim from France doing Mivtzoim in Venice.
The Jewish conspiracy theory has taken another rather surprising and wild turn as an Cypriot official was quoted as having claimed that Chabad spies for the Mossad and works with the Mafia.
What was the function of the Channel Installation discovered in the City of David National Park and dating to the days of Kings Joash and Amaziah?
An Israeli, about 22 years old, was moderately wounded Wednesday evening in a stabbing attack at the Shivtei Yisrael light-rail stop in Jerusalem. The 14-year-old terrorist was eliminated by a Border Police officer at the light-rail stop.
Sender Nemanow (Lyon, France) to Sarah Chazan (Milan, Italy) L’Chaim: Tonight, Wednesday, 8:00pm at Ulam Chana 556 Crown Street
The Chabad of the Beaches community in Long Beach, New York, marked a profound moment of unity and resilience on August 20, 2023, as the community came together to dedicate a new Torah scroll, shining a beacon of hope after the heart-wrenching theft and vandalism of two sacred Torah scrolls nearly two years ago.
