The family’s grocery, its only source of income, is completely gutted and unusable The beleaguered Jewish community in the Greenville section of Jersey City has established an emergency fund to help the family of the shop owner who was killed in the JC Kosher Supermarket shooting on Dec. 10. Leah Minda Ferencz and her husband, […]
Chabad plans fire truck candy drop and a giving ‘Can-orah’ for Hanukkah this year
Chester. Menorah lightings and other celebrations planned in Goshen, Chester, Monroe and Tuxedo. Join your friends and neighbors in celebrating the triumph of freedom over oppression, spirit over matter, and light over darkness. Love latkes? Want to see chocolate gelt drop from the sky? Join friends and neighbors on the cold winter nights ahead with […]
70 Days For 70 Years: Day 14
Moshiach’s Coming: Does Teshuvah/Return Necessarily Induce Redemption?!
70 Days For 70 Years: Day 13
Moshiach: When Evil itself is Transformed!
Should I Let My Kids Go Caroling?
A Rabbi responds to a common conundrum. When it comes to parenting, there’s no definitive, manufacturer-approved manual. Parenting Jewish is even harder—especially when your children are the only Jews in their peer group. Here we asked a Chabad representative to respond to a conundrum that commonly comes up among Jewish parents during this time of […]
Six Dead at Kosher Store; “Shooters Targeted the Location,” Says Jersey City Mayor
Three civilians and a police officer killed; two suspects killed by police Updated at 5:30 a.m. EST Three civilians and one police officer were killed in a shooting incident at a kosher grocery store in Jersey City, N.J. An eyewitness confirmed that two of the civilians are members of the local Chassidic community: Leah Minda […]
Lyndhurst menorah lighting, Chanukah parade through several communities set for Dec. 22
LYNDHURST, Ohio — It’s a menorah-lighting ceremony. It’s a parade. It’s two events in one. For the fifth consecutive year, the City of Lyndhurst will hold a menorah-lighting ceremony on the front lawn of City Hall, 5301 Mayfield Road. And, if the timing is right, just about when the menorah is being lit — at […]
70 Days For 70 Years: Day 12
Moshiach: Coming to Build, not Break!
Steinsaltz Biography of the Rebbe a Hebrew-Language Best-Seller
‘My Rebbe’ by Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz) is now in four languages The Steinsaltz Center in Jerusalem, the umbrella institution for the activities of Rabbi Adin Even-Israel (Steinsaltz), is a hub of publishing and disseminating Torah in multiple languages, especially Hebrew and English. In the past few months alone, the center, in conjunction with Koren […]
Students Connect to Jewish Knowledge Through Popular Texting Game
JText helps young people learn and be inspired Come 7 p.m. every Monday and Thursday, Hannah Wise of West Bloomfield, Mich., puts everything on hold. For the past year, the 16-year-old has been joining thousands of high school and college students across the United States and Canada who have been connecting to their Jewish heritage […]