The “deadliest fires in California history” continued to spread in both Northern and Southern California over the weekend. To date, 25 have been reported killed in the blazes, and entire communities have been decimated as high winds continued to fan the flames throughout the day.
Two Israeli Bochurim were mugged late last night at knife point outside the Bank of America on Eastern Parkway and Kingston Ave. NYPD has people in custody in regards to the incident.
Until about 70 years ago, Malta and its smaller islands accommodated mikvah-observant Jews for centuries with specially built stone structures near the shoreline. Now the island nation is getting its first luxury mikvah.
Last week, the county’s Jewish residents broke ground on a $4.7 million Jewish community center. The 17,000-square-foot Yakov and Hava Telyas Chabad Jewish Center facility, featuring a synagogue, social hall, library and kosher kitchen, will go up on ten acres of land acquired by Chabad in 2014.
A new fun sing along DVD that makes learning the Parsha a joy for kids and parents alike! When deciding what content to create next, Producer Chaim Hershkowitz knew that it would have to be about the Parshios. “I knew it was time to create something that was new, fresh and upbeat.” With that goal, Chaim’s first choice was Chanaleh Fellig-Harrel; who has written songs for him in the past. He asked her to come up with new songs for each Parsha.
The Israeli cabinet this week approved the establishment of a new neighborhood for Jewish residents of Hebron. The decision gives Israelis living in caravans permission—a first after sixteen years—to build new homes in Hebron. The 99,000 square foot lot of the new neighborhood was part of a piece of land purchased by Chabad in 1909.
The Chabad center in Helsinki, Finland, was undergoing renovations when an excavation shovel struck what are believed to be wooden beams of a Russian fortress, according to state archaeologists.
Milton Kramer, a scion of one of America’s oldest Chabad-Lubavitch families who bore his family’s tradition—and the responsibility that he felt came with it— proudly, passed away on Sunday, Aug. 26, in New York. He was 99.
Julia Landis, CTeen leader from Manalapan, New Jersey, has a new favorite story to tell after returning home from CTeen’s third annual Heritage Quest. “Life changing isn’t the word. This is the most amazing thing that has ever happened to me and my family.”
An emotional farewell, but also a new beginning for the small community of Singapore. The bustling island-city in Southeast Asia sadly does not boast a huge variety of kosher cuisine. Nonetheless, last year’s bochurim recently organised and hosted a cheese and wine banquet commemorating their departure after 12 months of dedication, as well as welcoming next year’s shluchim, handpicked by Rabbi Rivni to service the community’s various needs.
Robert Meeropol was only six years old when, in 1953, his parents Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed by the US government as spies for the Soviet Union. Yesterday at age 71, he took part in an ancient Jewish ritual when he put on Tefillin for the first time, something that Jewish boys usually do when they turn 13 at their bar mitzvah.
Massachusetts Shlucha, Mrs. Esther Kosofsky, published a book titled “The Secret of Carlos Romanus” aimed at you readers and is inspired by the Jewish values her father Rabbi Dovid Edelman OBM worked tirelessly to instill in his community.
They sit there day in and day out. Holocaust survivors volunteering at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. and on a recent Wednesday, they had an unusual experience. They met with a group of young students who had just toured the museum. Members of the Yeshivas Kayitz of Pittsburgh, they were fascinated to hear the elderly gentlemen’s stories. But then one of the boys asked a question that was unrelated to the presentation: “Would you like to put on tefillin?”
Beis Rivkah of Crown Heights have launched a new alumni initiative in an effort to reconnect and mobilize the past in an effort to help provide for the presently enrolled 2,200 students.
Vaad Hanachos B’Lashon HaKodesh has launched an unprecedented sale on the 45-volume set of Toras Menachem: 5742-5752, which has been out of print. Pre-orders can be made for the discounted price of $300. For more details, see complete article.
Tacoma Shliach, Rabbi Zalmy Heber, shares his memories as a young Bochur in 770 on Gimmel Tammuz 24 years ago.
Organizers report that the Lag Baomer Chassidus sales enjoyed unprecedented success with thousands of books sold to eager buyers who took advantage of the subsidized prices.
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