CBS 4 Rabbi Yosef Biston, during an interview with the Sun Sentinel, with the Chabad House and swastikas in the background. PARKLAND, FL — Swastikas were scrawled over parts of the Chabad Hebrew School of Parkland in Broward County on Wednesday.
MANCHESTER, England [CHI] — In the small Lubavitch community of Manchester, England, the bochurim returning for the Nissan Bein Hazmanim from yeshiva ketanos around the world, were not bored. The Yeshivas Bein Hazmanim occupied the bochurim all through the month.
SARATOGA, SPRINGS, NY [CHI] — Entertained by Jugglers, and urged on by their parents on the ground, scores of children at Saratoga Chabad’s Pesach Upstate NY fair dared to ascend 49 “Sefira” steps on a 3 story rock climbing symbolizing the daily Mitzva to reach the heights of…
Menachem Cohen – Kfar Chabad Magazine Rabbi Shneur Zalman Oirechman, left, co-director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Panhandle in Tallahassee, Fla, shares a laugh with Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. Florida Gov.
Find yourself with the Rebbe, name your friends, and share! In cooperation with the Chabad.org team, JEM’s The Living Archive has just posted thousands more newly restored images of the Rebbe giving out dollars.
David Fleischer – Georgina Advocate Photo by Cpl Terence Fernandes 32 CBG Public Affairs THORNHILL, Canada — He is a 52-year-old father and an Orthodox rabbi, but last week Lazer Danzinger tried something entirely new: he joined the Canadian Armed Forces.
NY Daily News CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn — A beloved Brooklyn minister was killed Saturday when his car was crushed by a suspected drunken driver speeding away from a nightclub, police said. More pictures in the Extended Article.
The Times-Tribune A rolled over SUV. ILLUSTRATION PHOTO. Ed. note: The crash occurred when a family from Crown Heights were traveling to Buffalo for Pesach. Boruch Hashem there were miraculously no serious injuries.
By Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org Passover Seder tables are ready for the holiday in Moscow. Thousands of Chabad-Lubavitch centers across the globe will host communal Passover Seders this Saturday night and Sunday night for anyone who wants to come.
CHICAGO, IL [CHI] — For the twelfth straight year the Lubavitcher bochurim returned home from Yeshiva to coordinate the Mitzva Tank parade that took place on Monday, 9 Nissan. More pictures in the Extended Article!
By Dovid Zaklikowski – Chabad.org The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, in his early 30s, around the time of his move to Paris.
By Joshua Runyan – Chabad.org As a delegation of Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries looks on, President George W. Bush signs a proclamation declaring April 16, 2008, the 106th anniversary of the birth of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory, as Education and…
Arizona Daily Wildcat Chabad at the University of Arizona TUCSON, AZ — An Appropriations Board decision yesterday left a UA campus club with cases of grape juice and almost $2,000 to raise.
Jake Remaly – Daily Record Yaakov Parisi, left, a student at the Rabbinical College of America in Morris Township, and Rabbi Moshe Herson, dean of the college and head of Chabad of New Jersey, confer. Parisi is a convert to Judaism after spending years as a Christian pastor.
WASHINGTON, DC [CHI] — In a paring that goes into the “only in Washington” category, the Motion Picture Association of America’s Private Screening Room played host to a most unlikely gathering.
Article by NY1, Photos by Webby Click Here for a newscast of this incident. (NY1) An elderly woman was struck and killed by two cars Saturday night while crossing a Brooklyn street. Police say Nezilia Augustin, 71, was crossing the street shortly before 10 p.m.
Bochurim have been immersed in Limud HaTorah for the past six months. To assist a Bochur in properly maintaining that Yeshiva atmosphere until he returns after Yom-Tov, Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim once again published a beautiful booklet loaded with material in Niglah, Halacha,…
Rebecca Rosenthal – Lubavitch.com Rabbi Efraim Mintz, JLI executive Director, welcomes mission participants BROOKLYN, NY — A contingent of 300, from Brazil, Australia, Finland, the US and Canada, who spent months studying Israel’s enduring centrality to Judaism, has just…
Radio Free Europe Rabbi Aba Dovid Gurevich TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — The Uzbek Justice Ministry has refused an accreditation request by the country’s chief rabbi, Aba Dovid Gurevich.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A young teen was struck by a car while crossing an Eastern Parkway service lane. The incident took place Thursday afternoon at around 3:00pm between Albany and Kingston Avenues.
By Reuvena Leah Grodnitzky Rabbi Benyamin Bresinger, director of Chabad Project Pride-Centre Lifeline in Montreal, Canada, counsels clients suffering from a variety of addictions.
TZFAS, Israel [CHI] — Emotions and feelings of the bochurim, shluchim and staff at YNS Tzfas were running high at the conclusion of the winter zman. Rabbi Orimland, Rosh HaYeshiva, noted that over twenty five Siyumim were made at the yeshiva on different Mesechtas of Gemorah…
Ruslan Karakash – The Bukharian Times TASHKENT, Uzbekistan — More than 100 members of the World Congress of Bukharian Jews, headed by its President Lev Leviev, have arrived in Tashkent.
From the Chabad.org Calendar Today is Beis Nissan, the 88th yahrzeit of the Rebbe Rashab. The Rashab wrote and delivered some 2,000 maamarim. The fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneersohn (“Rashab”), was born in the White Russian town of Lubavitch in 1860.