The month of Elul has begun, and rabbis are already planning their sermons for the High Holidays. There are some who are convinced that it is their duty to viciously chastise their flock from the pulpit. They actually pride themselves in how harsh they can be.
Mr. Eitan Ben-David is a Jerusalem-based businessman. He was interviewed in his office in October of 2018.
Chanoch Hecht (Australia/Jerusalem) to Simi Sebbag (Crown Heights) L’Chaim: Tonight, Thursday, 8:00pm at Rubashkin’s 1349 President St.
A resurgence of summer Jewish Family Festivals is bringing Jewish communities together for delicious deli sandwiches and Jewish culture in parks and synagogues across America.
Moshe and Bracha (nee Rosenberg) Dahan from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
New Shluchim attended a four-day seminar immersed in the world of Shlichus with workshops given by experienced Shluchim hosted by The New Shluchim Desk at Merkos 302.
Dovber and Zisi (nee Kessler) Lewis from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
A lesson can be learned from the Yellow Star Myth of Danish resistance during World War II, and applied today as the State of New York attempts to take away a right reaffirmed by the Supreme Court.
Twenty-five-year-old Rabbi Nosson Gurary had been married for two years and now wanted to join the growing number of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries around the world. The Rebbe pointed him to Rabbi Chaim Mordechai Aizik Hodakov, his chief-of-staff and director of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, the educational arm of the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
A special and unique Hachnosos Sefer Torah Parade and celebration took place in Baltimore, Maryland. The Jewish Uniformed Service Association of Maryland-Chabad (JUSA), under the directorship of Shluchim Rabbi Chesky and Chani Tenenbaum welcomed the Veterans Torah with a festive parade headed from Blue Stone Park to the headquarters of JUSA.
Lubavitch artists Yitzchak Moully is known for his colorful murals, creative art, and now most recently his Elul art challenge.
As the city and state’s administrations look to restrict concealed gun carry following the Supreme Courts landmark ruling, some businesses have decided to do the opposite. This sign went up today on a local business, and many more may soon follow suit.
Study at the Lubavitch Mesivta in Cergy, France has begun for the Elul Zman under the auspices of Rabbi Yossi Davidovich, Rabbi Shmuel Lubetzky, and Rabbi Mendel Davidavich.
The Chabad Jewish kindergarten Gan Israel opened a new kindergarten preschool today, taking in over sixty refugee children from Ukraine who fled the country with the outbreak of the war along with their parents.
It is with humility, but great joy, that The Rosh Chodesh Society (RCS)—the women’s division of the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI)—announces the release of its most groundbreaking course to date: TO BElieve OR NOT TO BElieve in YOURSELF: Achieving Self-Mastery.
On June 6, 1950, Maj. Gen. Mikhail Popereka, a deputy minister of the Ukrainian branch of the MGB Soviet secret police—the precursor to the KGB—drafted an 11-page memo on the status of the ongoing investigation into the case of the “Chassidim” and sent it to Viktor Abakumov, minister of state security (MGB) of the Soviet Union. Marked with a hand-written “Top Secret,” the report synopsized information gathered by the MGB over the course of its investigation into “the Schneerson anti-Soviet organization” via foreign agents, informants and interrogations.
Approximately four hundred bochurim have traveled from across the globe to spend the year of learning in the renowned Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim Brinoy.
