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The Rader (London, UK) and Grossman (Los Angeles) families celebrated the l’chaim of their children Mendel and Chaya last night at Ulam Chana. Images captured by photographer Shmulik Reinitz • Photos
A couple may have various concerns regarding having a child: financial calculations, worries about pregnancy, childbirth, and raising the child, or reservations about how it will affect their lifestyle. All of these calculations must be conquered! To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
An eye-catching photo of a group of Jews burying a niftar amid a snowstorm in the Russian city of Kaliningrad together with local Shliach Rabbi Avremi Deitsch actually has a very moving story behind it • Full Story
Alternate Side Parking (ASP) rules will be suspended tomorrow, Friday, December 31st and Saturday, January 1st for New Years. Parking meters are also suspended.
Starting Jan. 1, food containers and packing materials made of polystyrene foam — known by most as Styrofoam, which is a brand name — will be banned in New York state • Full Story
Watch a replay of a inspiring and energetic farbrengen In honor of Chof-Daled Teves, the yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe, led Rabbi Akiva Wagner, beloved Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto • Video
At this year’s Mikvah.org Auction, you can upgrade your home while building thousands more! • Full Story
During the past week, the Jewish Released Time program under the auspices of the NCFJE arranged winter camps for public school children during their winter vacation. over 150 children attended the Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island camps. Today the children came to 770 for a special rally in honer of the Yartziet of the Alter Rebbe • Photos
If elected, 26-year old Yehuda Spielman would become the only Orthodox Jew on a city council in Switzerland • Full Story
A new Sefer Torah, dedicated in memory of Rabbi Binyamin Wolf A”H from Hanover German, took place at the Chabad house in Palazzo under the leadership of the Rabbi Yaakov Zarbiv – Shliach to Palazzo. Photograph by Mordechai Lubetzky • Photos
In the wake of the Israeli government’s attempts to promote a new conversion arrangement which will allow every city rabbi to perform conversions, Chief Rabbi Lau sent a sharp letter to Prime Minister Bennett. Rabbi Lau said that if the head of the Rabbinate’s Conversion Directorate, Moshe Waller, would be fired as he was told by Religious Affairs minister Matan Kahana and if the new arrangement was promoted in the Knesset, he would suspend the entire conversion procedure in Israel • Full Story
Explore the sicha of Parshas Vaeira 5752 with a thorough synopsis from Rabbi Heschel Greenberg, Shliach to Buffalo, NY • Audio
Rabbi Yoav Zeev Robinson, a senior Yad L’Achim official who has been in close contact with the two over the years, commented: “Every story involving the saving of a Jewish soul from the missionaries requires complex, intensive work that can last for years. It requires us to provide a constant source of support. The joy that our organization feels at the simcha of these precious Jews knows no bounds. For me, I feel as if I married off my own children” • Full Story
While you may be in the process of stocking up on ice melt, Camp Chayolei’s preparations for another great summer are in full swing! Camp Chayolei has been growing in leaps and bounds year after year. Their staff spend the fall and winter seasons ensuring that the camp and its facilities will accommodate the increase in demand • Full Story, Photos
Under their new Homeowners Assistance Program, as well as the Regular Arrears Supplement HEAP, New York State is now providing up to $50,000 in assistance to households behind on mortgage payments, as well as up to $10,000 to those behind on utility payments. The Crown Heights Community Council has released the guidelines to qualify for each program respectively • Full Details
Reb Moshe Sheinbach goes by the Rebbe and receives a dollar for a mother and child. The Rebbe also recalls a book he sent years earlier. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
The American division of Dvar Malchus has issued an important memo on Tuesday, clarifying confusion about interruptions in subscriptions around the USA. Their team explains that the suspended subscriptions are due to the closing of a third party distributor • Full Story
We regret to inform you of the passing of Rabbi Aaron Davidson, a long time devoted mechanech from Detroit, Michigan, who taught generations of children of all ages, passed away on Tuesday, 24 Teves, 5782. He was 77 years old • Full Story
In honor of Chaf-Daled Teves, the Yahrzteit of the Alter Rebbe, there will be a special Farbrengen led by Rabbi Akiva Wagner – the beloved Rosh Yeshiva of Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto. It will be a special opportunity for alumni to reconnect and for Anash to be inspired • Watch
We regret to inform you of the passing of Mrs. Rochel Bernstein, the director of the Beis Chana Jewish Women’s Center in London, UK, where she dedicated herself to running programs for the women of the community, passed away on Tuesday, 24 Teves, 5782. She was 77 years old • Full Story
Moroccan, Israeli and French archeologists have unearthed the remnants of an early Jewish community in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco • Full Story
A former college student who carried out a hate-motivated shooting at the Chabad of Poway that killed one woman and injured three other people is expected to receive a second life sentence Tuesday in federal court • Full Story
On Tuesday, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that $90 million is available in federal emergency home heating aid. This is a major increase in this emergency assistance aid and will be distributed through the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance’s Home Energy Assistance Program • Full Story
With Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto celebrating 25 years, and rosh yeshiva Rabbi Akiva Wagner battling a terrible illness, students and alumni of the yeshiva have set out to share his burden, raising funds to allow the yeshiva to grow and expand • Full Story, Video
Los Angeles residents recall their personal interactions and Ahavas Yisroel, at the Shloshim event For Rabbi Raichik, the Chabad Rov of Los Angeles who recently passed away • Video
Thousands sat in the large shul of 770 last night to celebrate the auspicious day of 24 Teves, the yahrzeit of the Alter Rebbe. Those gathered heard from the likes of French Shliach Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Pewzner from France, 770 mashpia Rabbi Michoel Golomb, amongst others. Images captured by photographer Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos
As every year, hundreds of people from from all over the country and the world came to the gravesite of the Alter Rebbe in honor of his Yartzait on the 24th of Tevet • Video
Stump the Rabbi: Why Do I Feel Like Yeshiva Is Preventing Me From Being Happy? Rabbi Mendy Wolf answers. To ask your own question or for more answers, visit StumptheRabbi.org • Watch
In what has become a longstanding annual tradition, hundreds attended a special farbrengen of descendants of the Alter Rebbe this past Motzei Shabbos in Yerushalayim. Besides the inspiring speakers and moving musical accompaniment, those gathered were entered into a special raffle. The winner, Rabbi Yisroel Deitsch, received a round trip ticket to Ukraine to personally deliver the tzetlach given in by the farbrengen to the Alter Rebbe’s Ohel in Haditch. Images captured by our photographer Mendy Kurant • Photos
Rabbi Moshe Weller, who was appointed by Chief Rabbi Dovid Lau three years ago, informed Kahana during a meeting last week that he wouldn’t support Kahana’s giyur plan, in line with Rabbi Lau’s position that “the goal of the giyur reform is to violate halacha” • Full Story
A large group consisting of both locals from nearby Ukrainian Jewish communities, as well as out of country guests, convened last night in Hadtich, the location of the holy Ohel of the Alter Rebbe, whose yahrtzeit is today, 24 Teves. Yidden could be found in the Ohel, in the beautiful shul up the hill learning chassidus, or in the facility’s upscale kosher restaurant farbrenging. Several local Shluchim also arrived with large groups from their respective communities • Full Story, Photos
Each year on Chof Daled Teves, there is an elevation of the Alter Rebbe’s accomplishments far beyond the elevation of last Chof Daled Teves. How does this affect us? To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch
Eighty years after the destruction of Chernihiv’s mikvah and its Jewish community by the communist regime and the horrific Holocaust, a brand new state-of-the-art mikvah is currently being built in the Ukrainian city populated by over 4,000 Jews • Full Story, Photos
Rabbi Mendel Belhamou, Shliach in Ambergris Cay on the majestic Caribbean coast of the beautiful Central American country of Belize, conducted the printing of Tanya last night, 24 Teves, in honor of the Alter Rebbe’s yartzeit. The printing was followed by a special farbrengen in the Chabad House with members of the local community. The occasion was a double celebration, as 24 Teves is Rabbi Belhamou’s 30th birthday. The printing was organized by Rabbi Eliyahu Ezagui, who previously traveled to the country • Photos
In light of the the Rebbe’s suggestion as a way to draw down zechusim and brochos’, to learn the Mishnayos with the Baal Hahilula’s name and in honor of this auspicious day, Yagdil Torah produces a special Kovetz Limud with Mishnayos, selected stories, Horaos from the Rebbe in connection with the Yom Hahilula of the Alter Rebbe • Full Story
Velvel Reikhtman (Ben Reb Moshe) – Montreal to Channah Kagan (Bas Reb Zev Moishe) – Crown Heights
L’chayim will be Tuesday night in Ulam Chana – 556 Crown St.
Baby boy to Mendi and Devora Leah Labi (née Spielman) — Crown Heights
Mendel Shloima Litzman – Monsey NY, to Rivka Polter – Orangburg NY
L’Chaim: tonight (Tuesday) in ULY crown st.
Mendy Holtzberg – Monterey, California to Leah Schmerling – Crown Heights
L’Chaim: Wednesday, May 14 in the JCM
Updated with statement from the MTA: The MTA announced it will unclog the infamous “Nostrand Junction,” just east of Franklin Ave in Crown Heights, which merges the 2, 3, 4, and 5 lines in Crown Heights. The plan means that the 3 train may no longer run along Eastern Parkway and stop at the Kingston Avenue station, and would be replaced by a new “8” subway line • Full Story
Just one week after suffering a violent assault, Rabbi Eli Lemel was once again the target of an attack in the seaside town of Deauville, Normandy. This time, the assailant — an Afghan migrant — struck the rabbi with a chair while he was sitting on the terrace of a local café • Read More
In a moving act of selflessness, Rabbi Yossi Sued (27), Chabad Shliach at Western University in London, Ontario, donated a kidney last Friday to a woman named Ronit, a single mother in need of a life-saving transplant • Full Story
A new Chabad House has officially opened at the Alonit service station on the southbound side of Israel’s Highway 6, marking a major milestone after more than a decade of dedicated activity on the northbound side • Read More, Photos