Telushkin, one of the most prolific writers of contemporary Jewish books, will be in the Five Towns to speak about his book “Rebbe” on June 19th at the Young Israel of Lawrence Cedarhurst.
An invitation to the 1928 wedding of the seventh and last Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, was discovered at the National Library of Israel in Jerusalem.
The first night of the festival of Shavuot is not one for sleeping in Jewish communities around the world. It is the night when Tikkun Leil Shavuot (rectification of the night of Shavuot)—a specific text comprising written, oral and mystical aspects of the Torah—is recited, followed in many places by study and classes until dawn.
This week, U.S. President Donald Trump will headline a flurry of ceremonies, presentations and memorials that will commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day. Among those present will be Rabbi Mordechai and Zlata Lewin, co-directors of Chabad of Caen since 2014.
During the remodeling of the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in Tzfat, an area of the land that had not been part of the initial restoration was explored. Rabbi Marzel, a Chabad Shliach in Tzfat, was surprised to find a bor (halachic gathering) of pure mikveh water that had been dug out and used as a mikvah generations before.
At seven o’clock, every Monday and Thursday evening, the cell phones of over 3,000 Jewish teens around the United States and Canada buzz as they receive a text message with a Jewish question and a multiple-choice answer. JText, as the program is called, engages teens using the medium most comfortable to them, offering an opportunity to learn more about Judaism with a tap on their phones.
As lag BeOmer nears, preparations are underway in Meron for massive crowds. The Chabad-Lubavitch representatives of Meron, Israel, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok and Chana Ruth Halperin, are in the thick of it.
After six years of distributing Here’s My Story newsletters, JEM is now publishing a selection of some of the greatest in a new book entitled One by One, highlighting the Rebbe’s guidance to the individuals that came through his door.
A prominent Chabad-run Moscow synagogue, itself a target of 21st-century anti-Semitic hate and destruction, has donated a Torah scroll to the yeshivah in Tel Aviv that was launched and led by terror victim Rabbi Ahiad Ettinger. The 47-year-old father of 12 was fatally shot on March 17 at a junction near the Ariel settlement, heroically attempting to save others after being severely wounded.
Just weeks after the horrific anti-Semitic shooting attack at Chabad of Poway that took the life of a congregant and injured three others, the synagogue’s rabbi, himself injured in the shooting, visited the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, where more than a million Jews and others were murdered by the Nazis during the Holocaust.
As the rabbi of the only Ashkenazi synagogue in a country with a mostly Sephardic population in an overwhelmingly Muslim nation, Rabbi Mendy Chitrik doesn’t often get to enjoy a good Yiddish conversation or schmooze about the nuances of a Chassidic teaching. But that’s what happened this week in Istanbul when he and his wife, Chaya, hosted 80 Chabad rabbis and rebbetzins serving remote communities from around the world.
On Sunday, May 19, at the Jewish Childrens Musuem from 3:00-5:00pm, the Art of Friendship Gallery will be open, displaying 144 pieces of Art, created by children and adults with special needs; members of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn.
On Monday May 6th,Rosh Chodesh Iyar in Kiev, the new president elect of Ukraine, Mr. Vladimir Zelensky, met with the Chief Rabbis of the Regions in Ukraine and emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneersohn.
For an estimated $300,000, somebody can now own a piece of American and Israeli history. The only known copy of the press release signed by president Harry Truman in which the US recognized Israel is being put up for sale by the Raab Collection, a Philadelphia-based company that buys and sells historic documents.
The Beresheet spacecraft failed to land on the moon Thursday evening after its main engine failed. The landing process started at 10:05 PM Israeli time. The craft was supposed to touch down on the lunar surface approximately 20 minutes later, but appears to have crashed.
This past week, CKids put an entirely new spin on the famous directive to view ourselves as if we had been personally freed from slavery in Egypt. 180 Chabad Houses around the world, from Denmark in the west to Hong Kong in the east, have been taking part in the 4D Pesach Experience, a “club” created by CKids.
A new book by Dovid Zaklikowski, Dear Rebbe: Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson Corresponds with a Singer, a Writer, a Sculptor and a Holocaust Survivor, examines the Rebbe’s relationships with four important figures of the 20th century: sculptor Jacques Lipchitz, singer Jan Peerce, writer Chaim Grade, and philanthropist David Chase.
