Recently Kollel Anash of Crown Heights had the honor of hosting a shiur by Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Raskin of London, England on the halachos associated with traveling and taking trips. Rabbi Raskin serves as Rov and Dayan of Lubavitch in London. He is also the author of numerous halachah seforim.
The Maimonides School in Albany, NY opened this year with its highest student enrollment in many years thanks to a growing local community with new young families.
For the first time since World War II, the Hungarian city of Debrecen held an ordination ceremony for an Orthodox rabbi. Rabbi Shmuel Faigen was installed as head of the local Jewish community and will also serve as rabbi of the EMIH-Hungarian Jewish Association and Chabad-Lubavich movement.
Rabbi Aharon Serebryanski served as a leading Chabad emissary and educator for seventy years, most of them in Australia. He was interviewed in July of 2001 and July of 2016.
Machne Israel, one of the Rebbe’s three premiere institutions, has announced the election and appointment of three new board members. The new appointees are Rabbi Yossi New, of Atlanta Georgia; Rabbi Berl Goldman, of Gainesville, Florida; and Rabbi Levi Gansburg of Toronto, Canada.
Are you about to enter the workforce? Does your Shlichus or job require you to work in a mixed environment? There are many issues and Halachos that one should be keeping in mind in order to maintain the Kedusha of Am Yisroel.
Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez today announced that his Conviction Review Unit will be asking the Court to vacate and dismiss 47 felony convictions and 331 misdemeanor convictions that were directly based on the work of 13 former New York City Police Department officers who were later found guilty of crimes that were committed while on duty.
The Dukes family is inviting the community to join them in the humbling experience of completing and welcoming a Torah scroll that has been written in memory of Rabbi Yudi Dikes, of blessed memory.
A bit over a month ago, Bella was tragically taken from us at the tender age of 1, and she left our lives with a gaping hole, the likes of which can never truly be filled. Bella inspired so much good, and her genuine love for all was something that really struck home. It is with that in mind, the family is launching the “The Bella Shagalov Smile Foundation”.
Shluchim in the Southeast US region gathered for a Kinus in South Carolina. The newly established Cheder for young Shluchim was a focus of attention.
Face masks on public transportation, including New York City subways, will now be optional, effective immediately, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday.
About two weeks ago, on Aug. 24, my mom, my younger brother and sister, and I were flying home to Israel from New York and had a stopover for a number of hours in Madrid, Spain.
The Menachem Education Foundation is expanding the $25,000 matching grants, founded by businessman Rabbi Shneur Zalman Hirsch OBM, to enroll Jewish children from public schools into Chabad institutions. In honor of the Hakhel year, it will be available worldwide.
A rare document was returned to Israel in a joint intelligence operation by the Israel Antiquities Authority Robbery Prevention Unit which is proposed to date the ‘Ishmael Papyrus’ to the seventh or sixth centuries BCE.
Excerpts from two public addresses of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in 1991 point to modest trends in women’s fashion as a sign that the world is coming closer to the perfection that will exist in the Era of Moshiach.
The first battle in the fight for a property purchased by Chabad of the Beaches in an eminent domain claim by the Village of Atlantic Beach has been won by Chabad.
This year, Marcus Hessenberg of Marcus Hessenberg Films went back to New York and revisited Rabbi Yoni Katz in Crown Heights for his second film of Hanging With Hasidics.
