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Hamas and the Chabad Photographer

  Pictures of Jerusalem taken by Chabad photographer Yisrael Bardugo several months ago and displayed on various chareidi websites recently appeared on the forum “Palestini Continue Reading

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Mendy Abergel (Kfar Chabad) to Chaya Esther (bas R' Zvi) Katz (Crown Heights)
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Chabad First Aiders Arrive at Scene of Ramot Stabbing

Ze’evi Sofer and Shmulik Bergman, two Chabad Hatzalah volunteers, were the first to arrive on the scene when a young man was stabbed in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ramot on S Continue Reading

Sukkos Celebrations in Lod

Mispalilim at the Beis Dovid VeRaphael Shul, a shul for young people in Lod, gathered for a Simchas Beis Hashoeiva and farbrengen in the sukkah of Rabbi Mordechai Michaelashvili. Continue Reading

Arba Minim For the Kotel Police

The Israel Police handles the security of hundreds of thousands of visitors to the Kotel in Jerusalem’s Old City every day, and it has to be especially vigilant over Sukkos whe Continue Reading

Inside Reb Nachman’s Sukkah

Dozens of residents of Kfar Chabad and the security force visited Reb Nachman Reichman’s sukkah. The farbrengen lasted until the early hours of the morning, and everyone felt t Continue Reading

Police Officers Force Thief to Return Stolen Goods

On Wednesday night, a thief roamed among the buildings in Kfar Chabad, taking whatever he could find to his car. When Moshe Gutman, a volunteer from the Shmirah safety patrol, he Continue Reading

Chabad of Netanya Distributes Hundreds of Food Parcels to Needy Families

Every year, Chabad activists in Netanya distribute food parcels to the needy. The preparations have been going on for days due to increased demand for assistance.   Hundreds of Continue Reading

Chabad Community Leader Visits Rishon Letzion Mayor

Over the past few years, it has become a tradition for the leader of the Chabad community in Rishon Letzion, Rabbi Mordechai Tzvi Dubrawsky, to visit the local mayor before Rosh Continue Reading

A New Year in Kiryat Moshe

Yesterday, the onset of Rosh Hashanah was clearly felt at the Chabad House of Kiryat Moshe and Givat Shaul in Jerusalem, where 80 people gathered for a special program. Chabad Ho Continue Reading

Lod Kollel Student Celebrates 98th Birthday

A grand farbrengen was held on Thursday at the Tiferes Menachem Kollel for immigrants from Russia in Ganei Aviv, Lod, in honor of the 98th birthday of the oldest kollel student, Continue Reading
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  The Crown Heights JCC has once again arranged with the Forestry division of the NYC Parks Dept. to have all the S’chach picked up.   During the next few days, the S’chach Continue Reading

Sukkos Celebrations Draw to Close in Gush Katif

During Sukkos, the Chabad House of Gush Katif brought the mitzvos of Sukkos to the expellees by means of a mobile sukkah.   The mobile sukkah was driven to the Be’er Ganim com Continue Reading

Chabad Closes A Circle in Gilad Schalit's Hometown of Mitzpeh Hila

A few days after the abduction of soldier Gilad Schalit five years, the shliach in Maalot Rabbi Yigal Caspi arrived at the family’s home and put up kosher mezuzos at the hou Continue Reading

Gilad is back!

A teary-eyed Israel, headed by the Shalit family, welcome Gilad back home to Israel Tuesday after 1,941 days in captivity at the hands of Hamas and allied terrorists, some of w Continue Reading

Chabad-Run Diamond Company Floated on Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

A Chabad-run diamond exploration company Shefa Yamim will be merged with Alonei Meitar, a company related to the stock market, as part of a shares deal. Alonei Meitar officially Continue Reading

Chabad Gives the President a Set of Arba Minim

[Based on a translation of a press release from the President’s Office:] On Wednesday, Israeli President Shimon Peres and a group of Jewish children decorated the sukkah at the Continue Reading

A Lesson in Road Safety for Chabad Children in Bnei Brak

ZAKA volunteers decided to mark the end of a special road safety project at the Chabad Talmud Torah in Bnei Brak. There, ZAKA’s safety brigade and the Dan bus company came to t Continue Reading

Remembering Rabbi Ben Zion Lipsker

On Sunday, a memorial ceremony was held in the central Ashkenazi shul in Arad for the city’s late shliach and Chief Rabbi Ben Zion Lipsker, who passed away two years ago. Prese Continue Reading

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SHMAIS.com would like to wish a very hearty Mazel Tov to "The Rosh" Rabbi Ezra Schochet (Los Angeles, CA) on the occasion of his engagement to Mrs. Bat Sheva Wolf (Nachlas Har Cha Continue Reading

Religious Affairs Minister Visits Chabad Yeshiva in Bnei Brak

During a tour of Kiryat Gat today, Religious Affairs Minister Yaakov Margi visited the local Chabad yeshiva. The minister was accompanied by the leader of the city’s Religious Continue Reading

Shliach Wins Halacha Prize

For the first time in Elad, a competition was held in writing chiddushei Torah on subjects related to halacha. Hundreds of serious avreichim took part in the competition. At an i Continue Reading
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