With close to 200 submissions and over 70 fully written scripts and videos (!), the MyMaor Writing Contest quickly became a hit. The excitement only grew during two intense weeks of voting, where nearly 12,000 votes were cast! Now, the final winner is being announced.

Over Purim, friends of Shmulik Amar, the critical victim of the fire in Crown Heights, went to visit him in the ICU and read Megilah for him. A farbrengen was also held in the hospital in honor of Shmulik’s birthday with his father, who has been by his bedside since he was hospitalized.

Nearly 100 young Shluchos enjoyed a whirlwind two-day MyShliach Chidon program packed with ice skating, ninja course fun, dancing, and a kumzitz. The highlight was gathering at the Ohel to share their accomplishments with the Rebbe, followed by a concluding ceremony and banquet.

Rabbi Yossi Rapp from Chabad Air was seen today outside 770 helping a New York Police Department officer put on Tefillin while the officer was stationed there on duty.

With the participation of Israel’s Ambassador to Ukraine, representatives from 18 Jewish communities, institutions, and centers across Kyiv gathered at the Premier Palace Hotel to discuss close collaboration for the benefit of the city’s entire Jewish population.

For the last decade, Rabbi Tzvi and Rikki Altein have visited Media, in Delaware County, Pennsylvania, to serve its local Jews. As the Jewish community in southeast Pennsylvania expands, Rabbi Avraham and Chanie Deitsch have been appointed as dedicated shluchim to the city.

Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Rosenfeld, who served as a shochet and was the rov of the Ahavas Achim Tzemach Tzedek shul in Boro Park, as well as a member of the administration of the Central Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch Yeshiva, passed away today, the 25th of Adar.

What’s the best way to bring a Yid closer to Yiddishkeit? Sending them to Yeshiva is certainly one of them. An innovative program in Toronto called the ‘Torah Trade Center’ will use internships to incentivize students to join Yeshivah during the summer.

Ateres Chaya Mushkah girls’ school in Crown Heights is hosting an inspiring evening featuring renowned speaker, educator, and fellow school parent, Rabbi Shais Taub, as he illuminates the vital role of simcha in chinuch Al Taharas HaKodesh.

The Igud Talmidei Hakevutzah wraps up another month of success. In the special “Yissachar and Zevulun” project, hundreds of bochurim participated this month as well. Along with the Hachonos for the upcoming yomim tovim and many mivtzoim activities the dedicated talmidim were tested across all five learning tracks and received special scholarships worth tens of thousands of dollars in cash.

On Sunday, fathers of Kita Alef at YTTL Montreal joined their sons for a special celebration in honor of their Siyum on Parshas Bereishis. The boys reviewed Perek Alef inside the Chumash, followed by a collaborative activity with their fathers to review all of the Chumash learned throughout the year.

War Summary, Day 535: Egypt brings hostage-ceasefire proposal, Egypt threatens to expel Hamas terrorists from Egypt, signs of life from two hostages, rocket launches from Gaza, IDF expands positions in Gaza along buffer zone and further into Rafah, Hamas terrorist who plays Al Jazeera journalist eliminated, IDF targets over 100 of the notorious Hamas pickup trucks, terror attack in Northern Israel, and Yemen fires ballistic missile at Central Israel.

Leading voices in Jewish education and thought will address pressing issues facing Jewish families today at the world’s largest gathering of Hebrew School families at this week’s CKids Shabbaton.

When a major power outage plunged London’s Heathrow Airport into darkness last Friday, few could have predicted the ripple effects that would reach all the way to the small Jewish community on the island of Bermuda.

In recent years, as many parents have embraced the study of Chabad Chassidus, their children were missing out. “Lichtelach” was established, providing nearly 300 children across Eretz Yisroel with structured learning, farbrengens, and exciting programs that instill the children with Chassidus and its values.

A young chosson is reaching out with a heartfelt request to Anash for assistance in covering the expenses of his wedding which has been pushed off due to the chosson and kallah’s financial situation. The campaign is backed by Chabad Rabbonim of Yerushalayim.

In this episode of “Ase L’cha Rav,” Rabbi Elisha Pearl is interviewed about his book Make Peace and the Rebbe’s approach to Shleimus Haaretz, politics in the Rebbe’s thinking, and what we do when people are turned off by the topic.

When Rabbi Shaya Shagalow and Rabbi Shneur Majeski visited an unconscious girl in a New Jersey hospital, with her two heartbroken parents by her bedside, neither they nor the parents could have imagined that an incredible miracle was about to take place. “This is a clear Purim miracle that happened to us!” the father later said.

At a brand new Jewish Community Center that recently opened in Moscow, hundreds gathered for a grand Melave Malka benefitting Keren Chaya Mushka, a gemach for shluchim and community members throughout Russia. Cheder Menachem’s choir “Hashira Haasiris” performed at the event.

What if you could arrive at the Seder relaxed, inspired, and joyful? No, this is not an ad for a Pesach program. And no, this is not a fantasy. Join the Crown Heights Women’s Circle this Wednesday for an evening of Pesach for the Pros.

After its third successful year, hundreds of shluchim worldwide gear up for Merkos 302’s Festival of the Future 4.0. A full-event program entitled “Step Up!” taking place around the world this Acharon Shel Pesach.

Photographer Mordechai Lubecki of Paris, France, recently returned from a whirlwind three-day visit to Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, where he documented the vibrant and growing Jewish community under the leadership of shliach Rabbi Shneor Segal.

Join health expert Brian Clement, PhD, LN, for a free lecture on “Nutrients and Their Role in Disease Prevention” on March 26, 2025, at Rubashkin House. Dr. Clement will discuss how plant-based nutrition can help prevent and reverse chronic diseases. This event is free and open to all.

8th-grade talmidim of Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Shmueli at Lubavitcher Yeshiva had the opportunity to participate in a hands-on tzitzis workshop by Rabbi Eliyahu Ezagui. The project was the culmination of months of studying the halachos of tzitzis.

A groundbreaking new publication by Rabbi Moshe Nisan Wiener distills critical halachic arguments of the 1,227-page sefer, Hadras Ponim Zokon, into a concise 100 pages. The publication also debunks the belief that Litvish Jews have a longstanding tradition of being beardless.