Over the past 20 years as a Chabad Rabbi, Rabbi Dov Muchnik officiated a lot of funerals. The number of participants ranged from hundreds to a lone brother burying his estranged sister. But never before have he had no one in attendance other than himself and a shovel.
When Rabbi Binyamin Wolff passed away in Hanover, Germany, at the age of 43 last April following a brief illness, he left behind his wife, Shterna, their eight children, and a shocked and devastated Jewish community. But the tragedy has not deterred Shterna Wolff from the mission that brought her family to Hanover in 2005.
The world suffered a devastating blow this past November when Lord Rabbi Jonathan Sacks, former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom and a brilliant scholar and teacher, tragically passed away at the age of 72. Now, six of Sacks’s peers—chief rabbis in countries around the world—are paying tribute to his life of leadership.
When Israel’s Chief Rabbi Yitzchak Yosef landed in the United Arab Emirates at the end of last week, he made history as the first-ever sitting Israeli chief rabbi to visit an Arab country. Rabbi Yosef’s visit and reception, which comes following the U.S.-brokered Abraham Accords signed between the UAE and Israel on Sept. 15, signals a new era of Jewish life in the emirates.
On this יום הבהיר ה׳ טבת, JLI is pleased to release an all-new, multimedia lesson in collaboration with the Library of Agudas Chasidei Chabad.
CrownHeights.info presents a new mini-series on Lost Jewish Communities that have vanished over the last few centuries. In this episode we take a journey to the town of Hardenberg, in the Netherlands.
One of the largest ceramic oil-lamp workshops in Israel has been discovered by Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in Beit Shemesh.
To celebrate the Chanukkah season, The Cairns Jewish Community lit up a giant boomerang menorah at the Cairns Esplanade. The life size menorah, was constructed entirely of boomerangs and provided Cairns’ Jewish and wider community with a safe way to celebrate Hanukkah amid the pandemic.
In a Chanukah season unlike any other in recent history, several new JEM productions have helped ignite the spirits of thousands across the globe.
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or the first time in history, a giant public menorah has been raised in the United Arab Emirates. The 12-foot metal menorah was designed and constructed locally and stands at the foot of the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world, for all eight nights of Hanukkah.
CrownHeights.info presents a new mini-series on Lost Jewish Communities that have vanished over the last few centuries. In this episode we take a journey to the town of Roermond, in the Netherlands.
Thousands of Jews worldwide have been driving together for weeks. This historic trip will culminate with a crowd of well over 50,000 people of all ages, from all segments of Klal Yisroel, all joined together with one goal in mind. The Annual RCCS Auction Event will be the last stop of the drive! And history will be made that night.
JEP Press has released a new book by Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, host of our weekly Motzoei Shabbos Chabad History Program. The new book is titled “Chabad and Boyan, Klausenberg, Skwere, Stolin”
On the other side of the globe, off the sparkling shores of the Pacific ocean, Australia’s JewQ competition comes to a close. What started as an adaptation of the global JewQ competition, designed to accommodate its unique school schedule, turned into a full-fledged program with hundreds of kids over a dozen cities across the continent.
Dr. Aryeh Morgenstern, a Senior Fellow at Machon Shalem in Jerusalem, is a historian who specializes in the history of the Jewish settlement of Israel. He was interviewed in April of 2010.
Rabbi Dovid Wichnin z”l had dedicated his life to Chinuch and to his community. A group of family and students have come together in an effort to digitize the hours of shiurim and farbrengens recorded on tape and make them available online.
