“Less known is the fact that Mr. Perelman has built a private synagogue, a modest, one-room brick structure, in a garden space between the two buildings. Mr. Perelman, who keeps a Kosher home, likes to be equipped and ready for prayer at all times. “He takes nine Jewish men with him wherever he goes, the […]
photo:’”ULY 2nd Grade Feed the Birds “Chabad.info
“On Shabbos Shirah, 5702, the Previous Rebbe related that the Maharal of Prague (Rabbi Yehuda Lowe) established a custom — hopefully the custom will be reinstituted — that during the week before Shabbos Beshallach he would inform all the teachers and parents of small children to bring their children to […]
“Russia’s Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (C) meets with Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar (L) and Alexander Boroda, President of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia, January 26, 2010. ” DayLife.com
“The Friendship Circle is on the road to possibly winning a $1 million donation in a Facebook contest today. The only caveat is that the most important voting hours of the competition are set to take place after the start of Shabbos, tonight. Rabbi Levi Shemtov, national coordinator for the Friendship Circle, has publicly requested […]
” Many drivers no doubt have no idea who that is. And that’s precisely why the signs are there.
On March 1, 1994, Ari Halberstam was shot on the ramp as he and other yeshiva students were returning to Brooklyn in a van from a vigil for the ailing Lubavitcher rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson. Ari died […]
“A group of Lubavitch girls were granted a rare tour of the Lenin Library in Moscow Tuesday, where the Schneerson collection is held. Students of the Chabad seminary viewed a large anthology of Jewish manuscripts and texts of the Chabad Lubavitch community.They were accompanied by Rabbi Yitzchok Kogan, leader of the Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in […]
This Motzai Shabbos, the 2nd night of Chanukah, a parade of 25 Mitzvah Tanks and 150 Menorah cars will leave to Manhattan from Crown Heights. All who have Menorahs on their car are requested to participate!
Meeting point: on President bet. Kingston & Albany @ 6:45
Please be on time, as we will be passing the Chanukah […]
“According to Rabbi Mendy Katz, Director of Outreach Programs at Aleph, “Yeshiva-in-Prison transplants these inmates from prison to a sort of Jewish sleep away camp.” Prisoners pray together, take meals together and study together. The impetus for the program comes from the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, says Katz. “The Rebbe always stressed the […]
“Jewish tourists take pictures of flood waters during a period of seasonal high water in Venice November 30, 2009. The water level in the canal city rose to 130 cm (4 feet) above normal, according to the monitoring institute. “ DayLife
” Mumbai, India (CNN) — Countless bullet marks, a hole punched in a wall by a grenade and windows covered with plastic bear testimony to a carnage that left six people dead in Mumbai’s Chabad House last year when terrorist besieged several sites around the financial hub of India. Among those slain in the coordinated […]
“Foreman doesn’t buy the criticism, saying portions of Halakhah, Jewish law, provide justification for the sport he not only loves, but one he feels brings him closer to God. “Look, if you ask, just boxing, any rabbi who doesn’t know boxing is going to give you an answer right away,” he said. “But when you’re […]
“I assumed that I would walk out of the Crown Heights subway stop into throngs of Lubavitcher Hassidim surrounded by cheap kosher restaurants, Jewish ritual shops and stores selling stacks of identical black hats. Instead what I found on Sunday evening was an empty sidewalk save for a few men chilling on the front stoop […]
