Girls at the High School Program – Illustration Photo CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Many months ago some wonderful tenth graders in Melbourne, Australia took upon themselves the task of organizing a trip to New York to attend the annual Chof Beis Shvat high school program.
FJC.ru DAVOS, Switzerland — Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar is taking part in the World Economic Forum, January 23-27 in Davos, Switzerland. The 38th annual World Economic Forum officially opened Wednesday evening.
Sara Trappler-Spielman – Chabad.org Jackie Stern with her students at the Bais Chaya Mushka school in Los Angeles LOS ANGELES, CA — Jackie Stern very comfortably admits that she attempted to kosher her kitchen seven times and tried tying the knot with her husband Andy five times…
The Daily Breeze REDONDO BEACH, CA — A sacred mission turned into a huge headache Wednesday for members of Chabad of the Beach Cities, who trekked to the hills in search of snow – and then got stuck in it. The synagogue members left at 4:30 a.m.
By Reuven Arazi HALLANDALE BEACH, FL [CHI] — The Chaya Aydel Seminary in Hallandale Beach Florida, renowned for its high standard of excellence in higher Jewish education and community outreach, has just been accredited to offer Teachers Licenses to its student body.
by Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org Participants in a conference of Chabad-Lubavitch women emissaries welcome the daughters of emissaries to the grand banquet.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — The sound of two vehicles colliding was heard all the way to Montgomery and Albany, a minivan attempting to make a left turn from Empire up to Troy was struck by a sedan going straight down Empire in the other direction, the force of the collision…
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] – The culmination of the Annual Beis Rivkah Bnos Chabad Inter School Convention was marked last night with a supercharged gala banquet in the Oholei Torah ballroom.
Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org The Rebbetzin looks out at an early 1980s Jewish unity parade from the window of a house adjoining Lubavitch World Headquarters at 770 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Emily M. Olson – Litchfield Enquirer LITCHFIELD, CT — A recent published report on a plan to expand a West Street building into a synagogue and community center for Chabad Lubavitch called the project “a secret.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Two pedestrians were struck by cars over this weekend. The first incident took place Erev Shabbos on President and Brooklyn Ave, where a girl was crossing and a driver of a van struck her, Hatzalah responded and treated her on the scene.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) is launching a new course, entitled “Beyond Belief: Reflections on Jewish Faith, Reason, and Experience”, scheduled to begin in 10 days in over 260 cities across the globe.
GOLDEN BEACH, FL [CHI] — The Yeshiva Semicha Program of Golden Beach, Florida, under the auspices of Rabbi Chay Amar and directed by Rabbi Berel Gurary, recently celebrated with a monumental inauguration dinner.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — This past Motzei Shabbas, Parshas Beshalach, My Shliach held its 2nd Annual Mentor Appreciation Event this year at the Jewish Children’s Museum, as a token of gratitude for the enormous contribution that the bochrim have made to shluchim’s…
Avi Webb – Chabad.org A worker with Jewish Educational Media studies film of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory. BROOKLYN, NY — The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a grant to the group responsible for preserving the more than 4,000…
Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org Rabbi Moshe Ze’ev Pizem of Chabad-Lubavitch of Sderot points out damage from a Palestinian rocket attack. SDEROT, Israel — No stranger to the almost daily Palestinian rocket attacks that have crippled the Israeli desert town of Sderot, Rabbi Moshe Ze’ev…
Tamar Runyan – Chabad.org An investigator surveys the damage caused by vandals at the Simcha School in Kiev, Ukraine. KIEV, Ukraine — Less than three months after part of a Jewish school in Kiev, Ukraine, went up in flames under suspicious circumstances, vandals apparently threw…
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A Bochur crossing Eastern Parkway and Albany Avenue was struck and knocked over by a car Thursday evening. The incident took place as the car turned onto Eastern Parkway and struck the Bochur in the crosswalk.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — JEM is pleased to announce that in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of the passing of Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka Schneerson, on the 22nd of Shevat a new DVD will be released. The DVD features interviews with Dr. Ira Weiss, Mrs.
Visitors pray at the Queens, N.Y., resting place of the Rebbe and Sixth Lubavitcher Rebbes, of righteous memory. QUEENS, NY — Tens of thousands of people descended on Cambria Heights, N.Y., to pray at the resting places of the last two Chabad-Lubavitch leaders.
QUEENS, NY — A wild accident left a trucker critically injured and five firefighters hurt Thursday when a U.S. Postal Service tractor-trailer smashed into a fire engine in Queens, police said. More pictures in the Extended Article!
JERUSALEM, Israel [CHI] — Jerusalem’s Meorot Chabad becomes first Chabad School in Israel for niche demographic. It’s almost an official tradition among many Jewish high-school graduates throughout the worldwide Diaspora: going to Israel for studies almost immediately after high…
by Mendy Hecht Congregation Levi Yitzchok’s Torah scrolls join their new colleague for outdoor hakafos LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — L.A.’s Frum Jewish Community Comes Together for Special Sefer Torah.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — We are pleased to inform you that Jewish Educational Media has obtained a previously-unreleased recording of the Farbrengen of 10 Shevat, 5728 – 1968, corresponding to this year’s chapter in the Maamar Bosi L’Gani.