Through joint community outreach efforts in the Shchunah with selfless volunteers, over 1,000 residents have taken an active role in the political process and can now make their voices heard at the ballot box during this election.

In this week’s episode of Lemaan Yishmeu, Rabbi Yosef Braun addresses intriguing halachic questions on a wide range of practical topics — real questions that have come to his desk, along with his clear and insightful responses.

A new initiative, launched by a mechanech in Crown Heights, is offering $100 off kapotas at Kapotas NY for anyone working in chinuch, including teachers, principals, tutors, and bus drivers. The initiative is the first of many set to show appreciation for mechanchim by helping offset rising living costs.

Identical twin brothers from Yerushalayim have experienced what many are calling an extraordinary and almost unbelievable family coincidence, after their wives gave birth to baby boys on the same day at the same hospital, just two years after the same two brothers’ wives also gave birth on the very same day to two girls at the same hospital.

30 Sivan marks the yahrtzeit of Reb Sholom Marozov, a chossid who, despite his life of hardship, his greatness in Torah and avodah is mind boggling, and would have undoubtedly be glorified in other frum circles.

Mrs. Rivka Rubashkin, a longtime Boro Park resident and matriarch of the Rubashkin family, who together with her husband R’ Avraham Aaron Rubashkin was known for hachnosas orchim and helping Yidden in need, passed away on Sunday, 30 Sivan, the first day of Rosh Chodesh Tammuz.

After a wave of public criticism, a group of Lubavitch Israeli shadchanim has walked back a proposal that would have charged dating couples 100 shekels per meeting even when the shidduch doesn’t work out.

From the classroom to the principal’s office, this year’s Kinus HaMechanchim is being designed with focused programming that speaks directly to the distinct responsibilities, challenges, and opportunities faced by each role in chinuch.