The 15th day of Shevat, commonly referred to as “Tu B’Shevat,” is the ‘Rosh Hashana’ of trees and is marked by eating fruits. Read about its minhagim and watch the Rebbe celebrate the day.

In just under two months, hundreds of kids from across the country will descend on Crown Heights for the CKids Shabbaton and JewQ Championship weekend. And while the championship takes center stage, it’s the lineup of high-energy trips that keeps kids excited year to year.

With temperatures plunging to -20°C and widespread power outages leaving hundreds of thousands without heat, the Beis Menachem JCC and Rabbi Ariel Markovitch have intensified emergency operations to provide food, heating, and winter gear to Kyiv’s most vulnerable elderly and Holocaust survivors.

Whether eating fruits on Tu B’Shvat or year-round, learn which fruits require a hechsher and how to check for insects.

Mrs. Esther Mindel Borenstein, longtime shlucha to Bologna, Italy, and matriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed away on Sunday evening, 15 Shevat.

From the Anash.org Inbox: A poem by a Lubavitcher girl reflects the inner struggle between the Nefesh Elokis and the Nefesh HaBehamis, seeing people beyond appearances and behavior, recognizing the soul within every person, and learning to look at others with the soul.

Following the Rebbe’s instruction to make a siyum on the very day the Rambam is completed, a Siyum Horambam will take place tonight at 9:30 PM in 770, celebrating the completion of the 45th cycle of Shlosha Perakim and Sefer Hamitzvos, and the 15th cycle of Perek Echad.

Dayan Levi Yitzchok Raskin, Rov of Anash in London, explores interesting Torah questions and halachic dilemmas, including benefiting from church bells, toiveling keilim in snow, and giving credits for classes on Shabbos.