The free event, which will feature a public lighting of a Jewish menorah, will take place starting at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 3, at the Monroeville Miracle Mile Shopping Center in Panera Bread’s parking lot.
Jewish Heritage Celebration with the Long Island Nets will kick off the fun-filled family festivities featuring kosher stadium food, a half-time rabbis vs. teens basketball game, and an on-court menorah lighting ceremony.
Rabbi Mayer and Chanie Gurkov and their children, Shmuli and Lana, have joined the Wayne-based Chabad Center of Passaic County.
Gary Spund, an Israeli businessman, was scheduled to be in the Mumbai Chabad House on Nov. 26, 2008, the night it was attacked as part of a massive terrorist assault that murdered 164 people.
The eighth annual Menorah in the D Festival of Lights will honor eight metro Detroit Jewish residents in their 8s — from ages 8 to 98 — and victims of last month’s shooting at a synagogue in Pittsburgh.
A rabbi, a security expert and a former white supremacist turned peace maker plan to tackle the topic of hatred and how to stop it from spreading at an interfaith discussion on Tuesday.
As the city prepares to mark the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attack, Nariman House is being converted into a living memorial, including one section that will be called the Nariman Light House.
Passengers on what started out as direct El Al flight LYO2 to Israel from New York arrived safely back in Israel early Sunday after a Shabbat-long diversion in Athens that gave 150 at-first extremely disgruntled travelers the bonding experience of a lifetime and the Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries of the city the chance to strut their stuff.
The children all made two loaves, one for themselves and one to give to someone in need. The act of giving one loaf away is part of the teaching that God gives a little extra so that some of what we have can be given away to others.
The app, called J-SOS, was the brainchild of Yogev Deri, a member of the Chabad movement, and came to him after the 2014 terror kidnapping in which three Israeli boys were kidnapped and murdered.
Ten years ago, everyone knew Samuel and the child who was then dubbed Baby Moshe. The photo of the terrified-looking Samuel running from the terrorist-besieged Nariman Chabad House in Mumbai clutching Moshe Holtzberg, was splashed on the front pages of newspapers around the world.
Devorah Alevsky’s life’s work has been to help people. The daughter of Rabbi Zalman Kazen and Shula Kazen, Alevsky has taken on one of their projects, the Cleveland Kosher Food Pantry, and expanded it from delivering 300 bags of food weekly to delivering 4,000 bags monthly.