Mr. Ovadia Eli served as mayor of Afula, member of Knesset, Deputy Minister of Defense, and as the chairman of the Airports Authority. He was interviewed in his office at Ben Gurion Airport in December of 2010.
When Jill Swann moved to the Caribbean Island of Providenciales to teach windsurfing and sailing, she found just about everything she wanted in Turks and Caicos. All that was missing was Chabad, but not for long.
As Duke University celebrates commencement festivities and bids farewell to their 2021 graduates, there is additional cause for celebration among its Jewish students. They can now look forward to greeting incoming students this fall with an expansive new presence centrally located alongside Duke’s East Campus in Durham, N.C.
Crown Heights Hatzalah is gearing up for the most ambitious fundraising campaign in its history. A $2.5 Million goal set to fund the construction of a headquarters and garage is a massive challenge, but the volunteers are stepping up to the task. Keep an eye out across Crown Heights as signs and posters pop up for the campaign, and don’t forget to donate.
After serving the Crown Heights Community for 45 years, Hatzalah, as you know it, is about to make a major change to its services in Crown Heights.
Long before she got married in the summer of 1989, Myriam Bentolila knew that she wanted to serve as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary. SHe achieved her goal and passed away after a lengthy illness on April 1st (the eve of 20 Nissan) at the age of 52.
Meet the team and hear the story of Torah Visuals, where you can find and watch videos providing visual explanations for deep chassidic concepts that you can never truly understand.
Former Miami Heat Center, Meyers Leonard and Rabbi Pinny Andrusier, director of Chabad of Southwest Broward and organizer of the annual Jewish Heritage Night for the Miami Heat are teaming up for a very worthy cause.
Dr. Robert Feldman, who cares for many residents of the Crown Heights Jewish community has published a message regarding the COVID-19 vaccinations presently available.
New and expanded Hebrew edition of Early Years, Shamin Rishonot, Features dozens of new documents and data, including a special look at the view the Rogatchover Gaon took on the Golem of Prague.
The Passover Haggadah has seen more editions than any other Jewish book in history. Yet the recently released Chabad.org Haggadah, which is faithful to tradition, effortlessly accessible and refreshingly inspirational, has arrived as a new standard for this era.
For the first time in its millenium-long history, Iceland has formally recognized Judaism as a religion. The year-long process, during which the country’s rabbi, local Jewish community members and an Icelandic attorney elucidated the Jewish religion and practices for government officials, finally paid off when it was approved on March 8.
The year was 1497. Just five years after leaving his native Spain due to the Edict of Expulsion, Rabbi Avraham Saba stood tearfully beside an olive tree outside of Lisbon, Portugal. There, under what he described as a “tree of tears,” he buried his most precious possession, his manuscript commentary on Chumash, Pirkei Avot, Ruth and Esther. Rabbi Saba was never permitted to return to Portugal to recover his manuscripts or his family.
Jewish Enrichment 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 Gedolim II.”
In their spare time, Hadar Hatorah students are preparing for Friday’s outreach activities. Part of those preparations is writing and editing of the weekly newsletter.
Kids are getting ready to chuckle, chortle, and snicker at the wackiest Purim event that CKids has ever seen. Ancient tales of Shushan meet the wacky science of 2021 for a result that’s as zany as it is hilarious.
Sunday, the 25th of Shvat, marked 138 years since the passing of the founder of the Mussar Movement Rabbi Yisroel Lipkin of Salant OBM, who’s resting place is in Koenigsburg, today known as Kaliningrad in Russia. A hinyan was arranged by the lever for the first time in many years.
