Due to the sheer number of participants in the Chalukah of the Rebbe’s Torah in honor of Yud Alef Nissan – 120 years, an enormous amount of data, bli ayin hara, was collected by the website, detailing all the names and the units they chose. Upon the completion of compiling and organizing this information, the organizers were delighted to discover that this is the largest gift ever presented to the Rebbe in honor of a special jubilee! • Full Story
10,000 Yeshiva parents and graduates signed the ProtectChinuch.com petition in the last 72 hours. With the Jewish community at large still lacking its goal number, Protect Chinuch pledges to raise the goal. The tireless team at protectchinuch.com, comprised of proud yeshiva graduates and parents, are getting the word out. We must act now and speak out in defense of Torah-true Chinuch, and our way of life before it is too late • Full Story, Video
Renowned mashpia Rabbi Noam Wagner answers. To ask your own question or for more answers, visit StumptheRabbi.org • Watch
“Food is a medium that every person in this world has to be involved with it,” said Rabbi Areyah Kaltmann, executive director of the center. “It doesn’t matter who you are, it doesn’t matter from what demographic you come from in society, you’ve got to eat food and food transcends all denominations, everything” • Full Story
In another decree aimed at Chareidim, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman is initiating huge cuts in Chareidi educational networks, Kan News reported on Monday evening. According to the report, Lieberman is seeking to implement reform in which institutions that don’t meet the requirements of the State’s core curriculum will lose a quarter of their budget, an amount estimated by the Finance Ministry to be billions of shekels • Full Story
Fifty-five years ago today, on the 24th of Iyar 5727-1967, the Rebbe launched the Tefillin campaign. Some questioned the benefit of putting on tefillin one time with a Jew who is not consistently mitzvah-observant, and bringing this “mivtza” to the streets. In this talk, the Rebbe addresses these issues. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
In a surprise announcement, a Jewish girl notified the social worker assigned to her by Yad L’Achim that she had decided to end her relationship with an Arab youth. The reason? The terror attack in Tel Aviv last month that killed three people • Full Story
2,500 people come out to celebrate together lag Ba`omer in the north part of Toronto. At the same time as 1,000 attended a simultaneous event in Toronto’s southern community, as smiling children had lots of fun, adults put on Tefilin and everyone enjoyed a great BBQ. The two events were coordinated by tens of local Shluchim, who came together in the merit or Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai • Full Story, Photos
Are you confused? You signed the petition and made a difference, but are you still trying to figure out what’s going on? Why are communities across the entire Torah spectrum, from Modern-Orthodox, Litvish, Chassidish, up in arms? What is the core issue we are protesting against? Find out what is really going on, why public noise is the answer right now, and what questions we should ask ourselves to prevent this in the future • Full Story, Video
The US has been brokering talks between Egypt and Saudia Arabia over the transfer of two Red Sea islands to the Saudis. However since the islands sit on the main exit route from the Red Sea towards Africa, the only route Israel has to travel from Eilat, the negotiations require Israel’s agreement as well. Israel hopes to achieve certain steps towards normalization with the Saudis as a result of the agreement • Full Story
At a rally in 770, Rabbi JJ Hecht leads the children in reciting the verses of Hareini and Ach Tzaddikim. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
Fifty years ago, Rabbi Shimon and Chiena Lazaroff arrived in Texas with little more than an ambitious Jewish vision and four children in a green station wagon. Following the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Lazaroff’s goal was to strengthen and grow Judaism in untapped territories • Full Story
“When you have a community of resilience and a community that loves and appreciates each other the way that we’ve demonstrated here in our city of compassion time and time again, it’s a reassuring fact that we know that when we’re knocked down, there will be people there,” said Louisville Mayor Greg Fischer • Full Story
Sara Zverlo, the sister of Rabbi Avishai Yehezkel, who was killed in a terrorist shooting attack in Bnei Brak in March, spoke of her family’s pain after the Supreme Court ruled that the house of the terrorist who murdered her brother could not be demolished • Full Story
At a summit held last night in New York, Chabad emissaries in Ukraine, numbering about 155 rabbis, decided: a careful and gradual return to their respective places of Shlichus will soon be made. Their current goal is to keep strengthening the Jewish communities that are continuing to exist from afar via their rabbis who were evacuated when the war broke out • Full Story, Photos
“This is seismic,” CEO of Gro Intelligence Sara Menker told the U.N. Security Council. “Even if the war were to end tomorrow, our food security problem isn’t going away anytime soon without concerted action. Without aggressive global actions, we stand the risk of an extraordinary amount of human suffering and economic damage,” she said • Full Story
In honor of Shavuos, there will be a Shiur in the Halachos of Yom Tov, given by Harav Shmuel Chaim Bluming, focusing on practical halacha. The shiur is open to the public • Full Details
As per the Rebbe’s directive to the Shluchim, that every detail on Shlichus needs to be permeated with Kabolas Pnei Moshiach Tzidkeinu, an Aron Kodesh in a Chabad House on the West Coast was seen with a picture of the Beis Hamikdosh on the center of the Paroches, with the words ‘Lekabel Pnei Moshiach Tzidkeinu’ displayed on top of the Paroches.
Sen. Ted Cruz penned a letter urging President Biden to cancel nearly $1 million in funding for anti-Israel organizations, and maintain its promises to combat BDS and the “new antisemitism” • Full Story
Russia announced over the weekend that it has permanently banned 963 Americans from entering Russia in the wake of US sanctions for its invasion of Ukraine, Axios reported. The list, which is an update to the list Moscow released in March, which included US President Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other US officials, includes three Lubavitchers • Full Story
In addition to all the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations that took place in Crown Heights, a group of Bochurim from 770 traveled around New York to bring some Lag Ba’omer to joy to some of the surrounding Jewish neighborhoods • Photos
Although the weather was challenging, Chabad of Kostanay, Kazakhstan, directed by Rabbi Menachem Mendel and Devorah Zalmanov, held the Lag Ba’Omer celebrations with great joy and festivity. The festivities included a Kinus, parade and of course great joy around the bonfire • Photos
Hundreds massed on the service lane of Eastern Parkway to escort the levaya of Mrs. Sima Karp, OB”M. Images captured by ChabadInfo.com photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Leibel Blesofsky, OB”M, a longtime Crown Heights resident, known for his Chazonus. He passed away on Monday, the 22nd of Iyar, 5782 • Full Story
Berel Grossbaum (Minnesota) to Chana Shmotkin (Detroit)
L’Chaim tonight in F.R.E.E.
Baby boy to: Shmuel and Esther Neft (nee Tyshenko) – Toronto.
Baby boy to: Menachem and Esty Sheinberger – Crown Heights
Baby girl to: Meir and Chanie Levinger (nee Richler) – Yerushalayim, Israel
