Lag Ba’Omer was one of the Mitteler Rebbe’s particularly noteworthy festivals. He and the Chassidim would go out to the fields that day, and although he did not wash and break bread, he did partake of mashkeh, which he was not allowed to do for health reasons. Many wonders were seen at that time, most of them involving the blessing of children for childless couples – and all year long people waited for Lag Ba’Omer • Full Story

A 23-year-old Jewish woman from Moscow was killed in what police are treating as murder. Irina Tsipisheva, known also as Rivka, went missing on May 15, a day after returning from a trip organized by the local Chabad Jewish community, the news website Jewish.ru reported Wednesday • Full Story

Monday afternoon, the new Rov of Bnei Brak, Rabbi Chaim Isaac Landau, arrived in Kiev, Ukraine for a special visit to the Jewish community and Jewish organizations of Kiev, where he was welcomed by Rabbi Moshe Reuven Asman, the Rebbe’s Shliach and Chief Rabbi of the city • Photos

The Jewish community of Karaganda, Kazakhstan gathered at the city’s Chabad House to celebrate the opening of a newly constructed state-of-the-art Mikvah. Rabbi Asher Tumarkin, the Rabbi of Karaganda and his wife Rachel devoted themselves tirelessly to bring this project to success • Full Story, Photos

Earlier this week, a historic event took place with a Tanya being printed for the first time in the peninsular Arab country of Qatar. The Tanya was printed by Shmuly Butler, in the country’s capital city of Doha • Photos

In between lies the vast history of the city and of The City Record, a bottomless trove of municipal minutiae and legally required announcements that calls itself the “Official Journal of the City of New York.” While most New Yorkers have never read, or even heard of, this city-published paper, it is indispensable to many city officials and to those seeking city contracts • Full Article

Tonight, Tuesday, join a special online Farbrengen with Rabbi Akiva Wagner, the Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto. The Farbrengen will begin at 8:45 (Eastern Time), in honor of the auspicious days of Pesach Sheni and Lag Ba’omer • Watch Live

Al Sharpton acknowledged his role in stoking division in an appeal to Reform Jews for a united front in facing down anti-Semitism, racism and other forms of bias and, recounting how the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s widow reprimanded him for his “cheap” rhetoric • Full Story

Nearly 400 members of Congress have signed a bipartisan letter to President Donald Trump calling on him to safeguard Israel’s interests with Syria’s civil war coming to an end, JTA reported on Monday • Full Story

Kiddush Hashem: Mordi Harush, a formerly Chareidi from a family in the Sanhedria area of Jerusalem, has become a professional bodybuilder who regularly enters competitions • Full Story

At the 50th Year Hatzolah International Conference in Jerusalem, members of the Executive Branch of Chevra Hatzolah announced the formation of Hatzolah Emergency Air Response Team (HatzolAir), a 501c(3) to be operational Summer 2019 • Full Story

It was an incredibly moving and emotional meeting that brought two people from two parts of the world together, right here to Fairmount for a historic moment. The son of a Holocaust survivor and the son of the man who helped rescue his father, and 6,000 Jewish people, met on Friday for the very first time • Full Story, Video