Over 150 Jewish teenagers aged 12-14 participated this last weekend in a vibrant and energetic Shabbaton seminar, marking the conclusion of EnerJew’s UPGRADE Bar / Bat Mitzvah Project. The Shabbaton took place in Moscow and celebrated the teenagers’ big day • Full Story, Photos

A menorah on the lawn of the Chabad Jewish center at the University of Cincinnati was vandalized for the fourth time in several years, UC Chabad Rabbi Yitzi Creeger told The Algemeiner on Wednesday. Footage of the latest incident was first shared by the watchdog group StopAntisemitsm, and shows a young man sporting a knapsack walking up to the menorah and toppling it before running away • Full Story

Senior IRGC official Col. Hassan Sayyad Khodayari, who oversaw assassination and abduction operations against Israelis, Jews and others worldwide, was behind an attempt to assassinate Rabbi Schneur Segal, the Chabad shaliach in Baku, as well as the Israeli ambassador • Full Story

At times, the most phenomenal blessings of offspring, long life and livelihood descend into this world in a hidden manner. To receive ‘The Daily Video’ send a WhatsApp message to 718-687-8900 or an Email to MyMaor.org • Watch 

The fighting in Ukraine has been going on for almost 90 days, wreaking havoc and despair throughout the country.  The magnitude the catastrophe has yet to be revealed. However, some of the terrible results are already hitting close to home in Jewish communities across the country. Poverty and hunger has become common among huge swaths of the working age population, men and women who have lost their livelihood and incomes • Full Story, Photos

Bais Chabad has two major projects currently in the works. The Mallor Walder Community Mikvah Center, an approximately 2,500-square-foot facility, is about triple the space of the current mikvah and is expected to open this month or next. The congregation is also building a new playground adjacent to its building to serve children at Shabbat youth groups, Sunday religious school classes and summer day camps • Full Story, Video

Despite the fact that the coalition is teetering on its last legs and lacks a majority, Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman continues to launch diabolical plans against religion, this time aiming to abolish religious councils across the country, it was revealed this week. Religious councils oversee religious services in cities and towns across Israel, including mikvaos, batei kevaros, and other religious matters, and in some cities, they also manage shuls and other religious centers • Full Story

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

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

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

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

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

Not far from Crown Heights, you will find a Lag Ba’omer parade which is both unique and similar. The Boro Park Lag Ba’omer Parade has been going on for over 20 years. Like every Shliach does for his community, Rabbi Aron Ginsberg who organizes the Boro Park parade has created a program that is suited to the community’s needs • Photos by: Dov Ber Hechtman • Photos