One morning last week, three fathers met in a Crown Heights home. What brought them together was not their age or profession but something far more precious. Each of them came in with a baby in their arms, and each of those babies had been born after years of struggle.
Governor Kathy Hochul today signed a legislative package to honor and support Holocaust survivors in educational, cultural, and financial institutions.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk sold $6.9 billion worth of Tesla stock, explaining on Tuesday that the money was needed in the event that a deal to buy Twitter was forced upon him if he lost his legal case with the tech giant.
An Iranian national and member of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) was charged by complaint, unsealed today in the District of Columbia, with use of interstate commerce facilities in the commission of murder-for-hire and with providing and attempting to provide material support to a transnational murder plot.
Menachem and Adina Landa from Novato, California had a baby boy!
In production for the past 5 years, a long-anticipated book about the legendary Chossid Rabbi Yaakov Yehudah “JJ” Hecht is set for release in honor of his 32nd Yartzeit. It is available with an exclusive discount from NCFJE for a limited time.
In 1949 Viktor Abakumov, the Soviet Union’s Minister of State Security, received a message reporting that the Frierdiker Rebbe had established an anti-Soviet Center in New York City. The message, sent by KGB agents operating in New York, stated: “The American espionage system established an anti-Soviet center in New York under the cover of a Rabbinic training school, and it is headed by the Jewish tzaddik Schneersohn, who was deported from the USSR in 1928.”
The “Jewish singles event” has long been something everyone loves to hate. For thousands of young Jewish adults across the world, they can’t live without them, yet for so many, it’s hard to live with them.
At the Bonei Olam Men’s Event held on Monday night at Bison & Bourbon, Shulem Lemmer sang a song about Bonei Olam.
Popular singer Eli Marcus has released his newest single “Ahavti”, a soulful song composed by Elchanan Elchadad.
In Chabad house communities around the world, a movement is taking place. Children can be seen spending their free time mastering fundamental Jewish ideas – whether during recess, at dinner time, or even on vacation. The young students are participants in JewQ, the International Jewish knowledge competition.
A few years ago, while outside the White House in Washington, D.C. with his public school class, Yakov Vinnik was approached by a Chabad rabbi who asked if he’d like to put on tefillin. This July, Yakov was in Warsaw, Poland, on a very different kind of trip, when he surprised himself by offering the mitzvah to a Jew he’d just met.
As the head of the Eida Hachareidis rabbinical court in Jerusalem since 2003, Rabbi Yitzchak Tuvia Weiss was among Israel’s most revered and influential Torah authorities and communal leaders, a consummate scholar who previously served as one of the rabbis of the Jewish community in Antwerp, Belgium.
Author and Historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, gives a tribute to R’ Yitzchak Arnold, a Shliach and Chossid whose vision spanned multiple generations.
Stemming from a musical family of chazzonim and singers, Shmuly Hurwitz has broken out onto the Jewish Music scene with his very first single.
Footage of the attempted mugging in Crown Heights Shabbos afternoon has been released by Shomrim, and it can only be described as absolutely infuriating.
Pink beaches and coral reefs, vibrant, pastel-colored architecture against a turquoise sea, and charming, twisting narrow roads, all come together to make Bermuda a 21-square-mile strip of paradise on earth.
