Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses how to help someone who’s being bullied with Dr. Rona Novick, PhD. Mrs Novick is the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and holds the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values.
As the time to submit petitions to the New York State Department of Education, in regards to the proposed regulations on secular studies in private schools, a Monsey Rabbi submitted the following letter to the Department of Education, in the hopes of bringing attention to this important issue.
It was a chilly night as we disembarked the plane at John G. Diefenbaker Airport, the winds sweeping through the endless plains. This was my third time in Saskatchewan, having previously been assigned by Chabad-Lubavitch headquarters to help out at local Chabad centers in Regina and Saskatoon for the holiday of Shavuot. But this time was different. I wouldn’t be spending just a few days in the major cities with an established Jewish community. I was here for a vastly different purpose: to meet Jews scattered throughout the province, in cities, towns and villages with no existing Jewish infrastructure, helping them keep their Jewish flame burning.
Yeshivas Kayitz Yerushalyim completed their first year of operation with resounding success. Headed by Rabbi Yosef Avtzon and Rabbi Shmuel Schneerson, the program combined a good learning environment and farbrengens with incredible trips and travels across Eretz Yisroel.
by Yaakov Ort – chabad.org – The first crystal-clear memory I have of the trip up to Woodstock is when we hit 85 miles per hour on the open road in my friend’s 1968 Buick Wildcat. After sleeping in the mud, taking some bad drugs, being too far away from the stage to enjoy the music and witnessing some very frightening human breakdowns, I found a ride back to the city after a day-and-a-half feeling down, dirty and depressed. This is the story of how I made it from Woodstock to a Chabad Chossid.
A new journal on Chof Av has recently been published. The journal was authored by Shlomo Mordechai Hamburger, a lawyer and a board member of Chabad on Campus International, and published by the Jewish Enrichment Press (JEP).
Zichron Press announced the release of a condensed version of its popular “Codex Judaica”, the comprehensive Chronological Index of Jewish History with over 25,000 books sold.
Chabad educators like to turn their students into leaders and influencers in their own right as quickly as possible. So upon leaving this year’s European Maccabi Games in Budapest, where he had journeyed last week to support his country’s team, Rabbi Yanki Jacobs knew that he had made some headway when a group of participating athletes pledged to continue his work after he was gone, including wrapping tefillin with other Maccabi delegations.
In honor of the Shloshim of Reb Yosef Kievman, we present an excerpt from the Shloshim event held last Thursday night, recounting his incredible & colorful life story. It includes a short history of many Chassidim, their escape from Russia and anecdotes with the Rebbe.
President Trump has communed the sentence of Boaz Nachmani, an Orthodox Jew from Miami. The move reportedly comes after his 11 year old son sent a letter to the white house.
Three major events took place last week in Cannes and its area, with guest of honor Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv and Former Chief Rabbi of Israel, and in the presence of many personalities and guest. Chief Rabbi Lau was invited by Rabbis Yehuda Leib and Mendel Matusof, Chabad Emissaries to Cannes and region.
There are few remnants of the once flourishing Jewish community of the town of Colmar, in France. These items, which were discovered in 1863, all belonged to an unknown family. Some are now on view at the Met Cloisters museum, part of New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This past Friday, the 16th of Tammuz, CGI Montreal made history by having ALL 283 kids wake up early and come to cocoa club.
Community Board No. 9, which covers most of the Crown Heights area, held a meeting Tuesday night, in which seven people were elected to its executive committee.
With its charming stone alleyways and stunning ocean views, Barcelona is one of Europe’s most visited cities. Tourists pour in to enjoy the sunshine, sports and stunning architecture. Yet the city’s ancient archways bear silent testimony to more than 1,000 years of rich Jewish life, snuffed out by the Spanish Inquisition and the Expulsion in 1492. Since 1999, Rabbi Dovid and Nechama Libersohn have directed Chabad activities in the city. In an interview with Chabad.org, Mrs. Libersohn shares how she, her community and her family have grown in these past two decades.
Essex was a buzz of life at the end of last week as Chabad across Essex came together to put on a totally unique and original event as their annual fundraising dinner making history being the first such attempt by any major charity to do something so different as its Annul Dinner.
Aruba has cool sandy beaches, sparkling waters, windswept vistas, luxurious hotels … and a full line of Jewish services, programs and amenities. Much of the current renaissance of Jewish life on this Caribbean island—only 19 miles long and around that far from the tip of Venezuela—is to the credit of Rabbi Ahron and Chaya Blasberg, who founded the Chabad Jewish Center of Aruba in 2013.
