When a group from Moscow, Russia’s Bolshaya Bronya community ended up being delayed as their plane attempted to land in the city of Rostov, little did they know that divine providence would lead them to help complete a Jewish burial in the town’s cemetery, yards away from the ohel of the Rebbe Rashab • Full Story, Photos, Video

Hate crimes committed against Jews and Asians surged in New York City in 2021, with the highest concentration occurring in Manhattan, according to data provided by the NYPD. Across New York hate crimes have doubled this year, in large part due to the spike in incidents against Jews and Asians • Full Story

Police in Brooklyn opened fire and fatally shot a man armed with a knife early Monday morning. The incident occurred on Eastern Parkway, near the corner of Utica Avenue, in the Crown Heights neighborhood, an NYPD spokesperson said • Full Story

Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati is synonymous with dedicated Chassidishe Chinuch and high academic achievement. The Talmidim are encouraged and inspired to strengthen their Hiskashrus to the Rebbe and to be passionate about our shlichus of preparing ourselves, and the world, for the coming of Moshiach. “We are so proud of our alumni, ” says Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, the Rosh Yeshiva. One of our challenges is the inability to accept, and inspire, more Talmidim as there was no space in the dorm • Full Story, Photos, Video

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday it received reports of eight cases of a heart inflammation called myocarditis in children ages 5 to 11 who had been vaccinated against COVID-19 with Pfizer-BioNTech • Full Story

New York City’s incoming comptroller, Brad Lander, said that he would use all of his power and resources to force yeshivas into teaching secular curriculum. “The state law is very clear that all schools, including private and parochial schools, have an obligation to deliver substantially comparable and competent secular education, especially where the city is contracting with those schools for transportation and books,” said Lander, who is a Jew • Full Story

The Israeli Health Ministry has recommended that starting Tuesday at midnight the US, Belgium, Italy, Hungary, Morocco, Germany, Portugal, Canada, Switzerland and Turkey will be designated as ‘red’ countries, which means that Israelis are banned from traveling to these countries • Full Story

Terrorists in the 2008 Mumbai attacks were heard on telephone wiretaps planning to attack the Chabad House, where six Jews were murdered. The recordings reveal that the centre, rather than being an opportunistic target, was sought out as a Jewish location • Full Story

Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana says he has been tasked with overseeing Lag B’Omer celebrations at Mount Meron next year, following last year’s deadly crush that claimed the lives of 45 people, in Israel’s worst-ever peacetime disaster • Full Story

An Israeli man was stabbed and lightly injured by a female terrorist near Me’aras Hamachepeila in Chevron on Shabbos morning at about 10:45 a.m. The victim, a 35-year-old resident of Kiryat Arba, fought off the terrorist, 65, for several minutes until Border Police officers arrived and detained her • Full Story