New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s decision to name the city’s Municipal Building after early 90’s mayor David Dinkins raised some eyebrows over at the New York Post on Friday.
When Jewish people the world over begin putting up sukkahs—the temporary dwellings used during the week-long holiday of Sukkot, which this year begins on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 27—Rabbi Michoel Rose will be adding an additional task to his pre-holiday checklist.
On Rosh Hashana 5738 (1977) at a farbrengen, the Rebbe spoke about the mitzvah of Ma’os Chittim, pointing out that the needs of the poor during Tishrei are even greater than during Nissan. He suggested that a fund be established supplying Shabbos and Yom Tov necessities to the needy. Hours later, CSSY – The Organization to Bring Joy on Shabbos and Yom Tov – was born.
Sixty three years following the Machzor’s first release, Merkos Publications has successfully recreated the Machzor in its entirety, digitally remastering it, one page at a time.
It’s impossible to know how many bar mitzvahs have been celebrated in this most ancient of Jewish cities in the last 3,700 years since the patriarch Abraham purchased his family’s burial plot here. It’s just as difficult to determine how many Chassidic celebrations and milestones have been marked since the second Chabad-Lubavitch Rebbe—Rabbi Dov Ber, known as the Mittler Rebbe—purchased property in this holy city more than 200 years ago.
Writing for the New York Post, Crown Heights lawyer and activist Eli Federman and Jason Bedrick of the libertarian think tank The Cato Institute make the case that the efforts of activists petitioning the government to force Orthodox-Jewish schools to teach secular subjects are misguided, against the spirit of American religious liberty, and bound to fail.
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA), located in Longmeadow, MA, opened its doors on August 27, 2015 for the 2015-16 school year and was proud to welcome its student body for its 70th year of offering excellence in Judaic and secular education to families of the greater Springfield area.
North ranch, CA will never quite be the same. An upper class picturesque neighborhood, located in the north of the Conejo valley, North ranch is home of thousands of Jews who were never serviced by a synagogue. Now, not only do they have a beautiful Chabad house, but they were treated to a summer yeshiva in their very backyard.
Vancouver Island, in Canada’s Pacific northwest, was named the No. 1 Island in U.S and Canada by the Travel + Leisure magazine 2014. Locals and travelers come for the fishing, wineries, art, whale watching, and breathtaking scenery. And now, some will be coming for its blossoming Jewish community, a stunning development given the island’s relative isolation from the mainland.
New York State Senator Jesse Hamilton hosted eight judges and close to a hundred residents of the Crown Heights community at a “Meet Your Judges” forum at the Jewish Children’s Museum Tuesday night Aug, 18th.
A decade after Hurricane Katrina devastated the gulf coast of Louisiana—ripping into a huge swath of land and leaving it awash in floodwaters for nearly a week—Jewish life has worked its way back to a new normal.
Yesterday, August 16, marks 75 years since the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe bought the building of 770 Eastern Parkway, which subsequently became the headquarters – and a symbol – of the Chabad movement.
Rabbi Mottel Sharfstein, a long time resident of Crown Heights, will be remembered, this coming Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum, for his humble demeanor, wonderful sense of humor and self effacing personality.
The Young Leadership Committee of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles hosted a preview event and book signing launch of veteran Shliach Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie’s new work, “The Secret of Chabad: Inside the world’s most successful Jewish movement.”
Max Steinberg was determined to make a difference in the world. A native of California, he was 22 when he went to Israel for the first time in the summer of 2012 on a Taglit-Birthright Israel trip for young adults, along with his siblings Jake and Paige.
The summertime travels of “Roving Rabbis”—young Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students and newly minted rabbis who visit isolated Jews and small Jewish communities all over the globe—are filled with exciting, hectic days and nights in which they share the joys of Judaism with others. But on Tisha B’Av, they have a unique opportunity for a relatively quiet day of reflection, in which they can learn more about the local Jewish community and deepen their times with them.
A career criminal with a long history of shoplifting from Kingston Avenue stores was apprehended earlier this week by a shop owner after he stole a pack of teeth whiteners.
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