The observant Jewish community is no longer welcome in New York. Our way of life is being trampled on, our needs are dismissed with ease, our vote is irrelevant and cannot change a thing. Written by Yosef Chaim Brook • Full Story

My life was changed forever when my mother, Pesya Leah Lapine, was stabbed to death in her home. My mother and I had just returned home from grocery shopping when a black man took her away from me. I don’t have any memories; I was just 2 years old. Written by Sara Chana Shields • Full Article

The Brooklyn Botanical Garden is a stone’s throw from my house. I pass its gated entrance on my walks along Eastern Parkway several times a week and promise myself to visit soon. But the last time I strolled under its gorgeous cherry trees was two years ago. Written by Mrs. Baila Olidort • Full Story

The past two months have tested us to the limit and changed our lives forever. The Orthodox Jewish community hasn’t experienced such trying times since our grandparents’ generation. New York City in particular has suffered tremendously and will take a lot of hard work to get back on its feet. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Story

It is impossible to downplay the importance of the wave of Achdus we are experiencing in Chabad; the results speak for themselves. The approaches to achieving unity are based on the assumption that today in Chabad there are two views and it is not possible to do away with either one of them. Each approach has a big following of Chassidim who believes they are fulfilling the Rebbe’s Ratzon. Written by Shraga Crombie • Full Article 

We are all reeling and shaken from the general Coronavirus situation and the many deaths and sickness it has brought in its wake. The truth is that we are living in very difficult times in many respects, and we sometimes feel that we do not have the Kochos to continue. Written by Rabbi Pesach Scheiner, Shliach of Boulder, Colorado • Full Article

Read a letter of condolence Rabbi Saul Emanuel, Executive Director of the MK, the Montreal Kashrus Agency wrote about Rabbi Don Yoel Levy, who passed away on Acharon Shel Pesach after being infected with Coronavirus • Full Letter

The local Shliach seemed to think for a minute and then said words which continue to frighten me to this day, “Oh you’re referring to Chof Ches Nissan?…well the whole Moshiach obsession is not the corporate image we want to project here”. Written by Rabbi N.W. • Full Story

Like hundreds in the Jewish community, my sole income revolves on the Jewish simcha market. Something that is pretty much squashed at this point.  As a  photographer, our business and personal income rely heavily on the heavy wedding seasons to stay afloat. While accountants base their seasons around that April 15th deadline, Jewish Weddings revolve around the Jewish calendar cycle. Written by Yosef Shidler • Full Article

As we approach the Kinus Hashluchim, it is a good time to make a Cheshbon Hanefesh regarding the institution of Shlichus. It is easy to pat ourselves on the back and say “Bravo!”, we are conquering the world, there are 5,000 Chabad Houses etc. • Full Article

I’m sitting in a coffee shop, observing how everyone is so caught up in their own inner worlds. People sitting on their mac laptops, sipping on some grossly overpriced coffee and feeling all cool while doing so (myself included). Written by Malky Scheiner • Full Article

Gimmel Tammuz. Is there any Lubavitcher whom those two words don’t elicit some sort of emotional response? Maybe a gut-wrenching sadness? Perhaps a burst of inspiration to be the best that I can be, to want to give the Rebbe nachas? Written by Matis Abarbanel • Full Article

It’s a risky gamble for Democrats. They’ve just been branded the “anti-Israel” and “anti-Jewish” party by the President of the United States. I guess the Dems probably saw that coming. Written by Rabbi Michoel Green • Full Article

Tomorrow evening is the bi-monthly 71 precinct build the block meeting (Sector D) which covers a nice part of the Crown Heights area. The officers who run the event really want to increase Jewish community attendance, they do their best to text people and put their flyers at our local businesses. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

Did you know that there is an election in New York City tomorrow, Tuesday, 21 Adar I? If you didn’t know, don’t worry, most New Yorkers don’t know about it and from the few that do, many of them don’t care about it. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

Like everyone else, I was smitten by the horror video posted regarding the state of Safrus today. I needed clarity and decided to dig deeper. I found out that the noise is all pathetic and the truth is there for anyone looking for it. Written by Yossi Hecht • Full Article

In 2016, a poll showed Trump beating Hillary Clinton 66% to 22% among Orthodox Jews. This wasn’t as unusual as it sounds. In New York City, Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods light up as islands in a lefty sea. Only 34% of American Jews are certain that they believe in G-d. What do they believe in? • Full Article

Rabbi Mendel Gurkow, Shliach and founder of the Shaloh House and Chabad of the South Area, Stoughton, MA, wrote a column for the local newspaper, as part of their ‘Keeping The Faith’ section • Full Article

I would like to bring to the attention of the Frum community here in the United States an on-going outrage that’s being committed by the Israeli government. The Israeli Shabak (general security services) arrested for interrogation three Frum Yeshiva students all under the age of seventeen years old. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

Jewish survival has always hinged on Jewish education, and our history is replete with notorious examples of government interference – often with active assistance and even prodding from Jews. Whether those Jewish antagonists had a chip on their shoulder towards Judaism or were motivated by genuine concern for children, the results have always been disastrous. Written by Rabbi Yaakov Menken and Jeff Ballabon • Full Article

The NYS Department of Education is attempting to make undesirable changes to the Yeshiva education of our children. Some claim to have “concern” for our children to not having a good enough education and are determined to “help” us • Full Article

The Jewish community woke up this past Sunday morning to yet another case of a famous person posting something offensive about us on their social media account to their millions of fans. What is different about this case is that the offender is basketball star Lebron James. Written by Yosef Hershkop • Full Article

As we are all settling down from the excitement and Simcha of the release of Rabbi Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin, I personally still have a question that has been gnawing at me. Written by R’ Yitzchok Basch • Full Article

We are all still amazed and uplifted from the great miracle of the release of Reb Shalom Mordechai Rubashkin. Besides the great Simcha of our fellow brother being released from the barbaric hand of Sonei Yisroel, there is yet another amazing Simcha • Full Article

This year the Kinus Hashluchim coincides with Shabbos Parshas Toldos, in which we read about Eisav exchanging the Bechora (right of first-born) for a bowl of lentil soup. Perhaps the Horaah that we, as Shluchim, can learn from this week’s Parsha is to ask ourselves, “Are we selling the Rebbe’s Ratzon for a ‘Nezid Adoshim’, a paltry sum?” Written by Rabbi M. C. • Full Article