1+ week, 6+ day ago   (588+ words) The Maamar was delivered during one of the darkest periods of Soviet persecution and called for mesiras nefesh—self-sacrifice—for the education of Jewish children and the preservation of Torah and Yiddishkeit. The Rebbe Rayatz was subsequently arrested and sentenced…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (346+ words) CrownHeights.info From the Honey Factory to the Holiday Table: Ukraine’s Jews Prepare for Rosh Hashanah In the heart of Kyiv, surrounded by major logistics centers, a production line is working at full pace, filling jars of pure honey that…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (72+ words) CrownHeights.info Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – The Romanian Holocaust, The Chernovitz Boys and the Rebbe Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (667+ words) Two decades after the establishment of the Central Yeshiva Ketana “Tomchei Temimim” in Istra, outside Moscow, the sounds of Torah learning continue to resonate in a city once synonymous with the persecution of Torah and Yiddishkeit. That milestone is now…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (244+ words) There is something that has always bothered me, both as a bochur and now as a Yungerman in Kollel. Boruch Hashem, I try to follow the guidance of my Mashpiim and Rabbonim and, as a Frum Yid, I use only…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (269+ words) by Leibel Kahan – Lubavitch.com Michel Madie was nine years old when his family arrived in Calvi in 1967 from Algeria. His parents — his father a descendant of Spanish Jews who fled the Inquisition, his mother a Berber Jew from the…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (748+ words) by Tzali Reicher – chabad.org Whenever Rabbi Yosef Dovid and Shternie Chanowitz walked into the care facility where Joel Schnee lived in the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York, the elderly man’s face would light up. That’s why it was…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (356+ words) In a historic ceremony attended by Israel’s Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Kalman Ber, senior rabbis, Jewish community leaders and guests from several countries, Chabad emissary Rabbi Menachem Mendel Axelrod was formally inaugurated as Chief Rabbi of Moldova. Rabbi Axelrod, who was…...