The Jewish community in Manchester was appalled by the coverage of the murderous terror attack in Jerusalem on Sunday during which a Hamas terrorist murdered Eli Kay, H’yd, and wounded four others. The Manchester Evening News (MEN) chose to report the story with a grossly misleading headline stating: “Palestinian Shot Dead After Holy Site Killing” • Full Story

Rabbi Yitzchak HaCohen Kogan and Rabbi Michael Mishulovin hosted a Farbrengen at a local restaurant together with anash. Alongside was held a Farbrengen for the bochurim at the Ran Institute Yeshiva together with all members of the Hanhola under the leadership of Rabbi Yehuda Segev Friedman, Rabbi David Shulkin, Rabbi Ephraim Borsch and Rabbi Moshe Lavi • Photos

Rabbi Shlomo Amar, Israel’s Sephardic Chief Rabbi, paid a special visit to the Jewish community in Paris this week. During his visit he met with the Shliach of Toulouse, Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Matusof, who was also his Chavrusa sixty years ago at the Chabad Yeshiva in Casablanca • Full Story

During renovations of a hospital in the Crimean city of Lugorsk, workers discovered Jewish symbols inside a building from the mid-19th century that had been nationalized and closed down by the government • Full Story

P.V. Viswanath recalled how the terrorist he spoke to while himself situated in New York displayed an eerie calm.“[The terrorist] was going to do whatever he was going to do, or had already done… So if the plan was to kill everybody, that was what he was going to do. Our talking to him … I don’t think would have changed events in any way” • Full Story

Bochurim at Tiferes Bachurim Yeshiva in Malakhovka, situated just outside of Moscow, completed a very special mivtza, learning a handful of the Rebbe MH”M’s 19 Kislev farbrengens, as well as perek 32 of “Tanya”. A special event and farbrengen was held where many valuable prizes were raffled off, including a silver plated Menorah, many expensive sets of seforim, and more • Read More

Hundreds of festive events and Chassidic gatherings in honor of Kislev 19 – the ‘New Year’ of Chassidism and the day the founder of the Chabad dynasty, Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi, was released from prison in Czarist Russia – were celebrated across the former Soviet Union, in the very same countries where the Chassidic movement was established and began its historic impact on the Jewish nation • Full Story, Photos

Yeshivas Lubavitch Cincinnati, under the leadership of Rabbi Gershon Avtzon, hosted their annual 19 Kislev Farbrengen for the local community and Shluchim in the Midwest. The Keynote address was delivered by Rabbi Aryeh Kaltman, Senior Shliach to Columbus OH, who also stayed to farbreng with the anash and talmidim • Full Story, Photos

Rabbi Shais Taub, Director of SoulWords and a sought after speaker in the Jewish world, farbrenged in honor of the Alter Rebbe‘s liberation in Lakewood New Jersey’s Bnos Devorah Hall. The event, hosted by Chabad of Toms River and Chabad of Jackson, boasted a large crowd, who enjoyed a seudas yom tov and an evening on inspiration and connection to Chassidus • Photos

Rabbi Yosef Carlebach, Shliach to Rutgers University led an inspiring Farbrengen at the Lubavitch Shul in New Haven Connecticut. Many mosdos in New Haven came together for the achdus Farbrengen organized by Congregation Lubavitch, Shulounge and Ohel Yosef Yitzchok • Full Story, Photos