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“Despite warnings from some in the school system that Mr. Waronker was a cultural mismatch for a predominantly minority school, he has outlasted his predecessors, and test scores have risen enough to earn J.H.S. 22 an A on its new school report card. The school, once on the city’s list of the 12 most dangerous, […]

Mention of the Lower East Side often evokes images of heaving tenement buildings, anxious immigrants, and pungent pickles. While the pickles remain a landmark on Hester Street, the rest of the neighborhood has changed. The immigrants who came did everything they could to leave; today, their great-grandchildren are coming back in droves. Introducing them to […]

Between Mincha and Maariv at the F.R.E.E. shul for Russian speakers, several shul-goers were seen contemplating a a huge painting of the Rebbe. The painting was purchased over 10 years ago from Yechiel Goldstein when Eli Kahan was a 770 bochur. COL photographer took a picture of the shliach and the F.R.E.E. director, Rabbi […]

One of the reasons that the anniversary of a tzaddik’s death is considered a day of rejoicing[67] is that when a tzaddik dies, the purpose of his soul’s descent into a physical body has been accomplished.
To explain: The intent of the descent of the soul to this earthly plane reflects the paradigm of “descent for […]

Video:Wenn Rabbiner singen lernen
Sie ist eine der ältesten orthodoxen Gemeinden New Yorks, Crown Heights in Brooklyn. Und er schwebt über allen hier, Rabbi Schneerson, der Rabbi den die orthodoxen Lubavitscher hier wie einen Heiligen verehren und der ihnen immer noch so fehlt. Denn seit er 1994 starb, ohne Söhne zu hinterlassen, ist die Gemeinde […]

The Seforim in the wrong hands are a live bomb

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photo:Matisyahu: 2nd Annual “Festival of Light”

This Thursday, Yud Tes Kislev “The Rosh Hashanah of Chassidus.” marks 208 years since the release of the Alter Rebbe, in the year 5559 (1798). In preparation of this auspicious day, which is referred to by Chasidim as the “Holiday of Holidays”, Chabad.info presents the Minhagim for Yud Tes Kislev, in ‘Full Article”.

“In this context, a unique miracle of recent times is worthy of attention. Just as every nation has a flag of its own, every nation has a national anthem. France too possesses a national anthem, a melody rooted in the core of the French Revolution, and composed exactly two hundred years ago, on the eve […]