In an operation titled “Northern Arrows,” the IDF has carried out well over 800 airstrikes across Lebanon, targeting Hezbollah launchers and arsenal. The number of airstrikes in one day is a record for Israel, and is nearing a world record. Huge secondary explosions show the presence of Hezbollah’s arsenal.

During a time when much of the news in Eretz Yisroel is filled with doom and gloom, Lubavitcher singer Simche Friedman released a song to uplift his fellow countrymen with a positive attitude to the news.

In honor of Chai Elul, 770 hosted a lively farbrengen with honorary speakers Rabbi Yisroel Noach Vogel, Rabbi Yosef Braun, and Rabbi Nachman Schapiro.

This year, Chai Elul 5784 marks a monumental milestone—300 years since the Ba’al Shem Tov began learning with his spiritual master, Achiya HaShiloni. This video explores the significance of this anniversary and how the teachings of the Ba’al Shem Tov continue to inspire and elevate our lives today.

Menachem Mendel Bolton, a 12-year-old boy from Kfar Chabad, who tragically collapsed during a friend’s bar mitzvah, passed away. At his levaya, the Rov of Kfar Chabad clarified the incident and urged the crowd to increase in ahavas Yisroel.

Preschools around the world began a new school year with strong support from Chabad Early Childhood of the Shluchim Office with over 1,320 copies of the newest toddler curriculum, featuring practical lesson plans, developmental activities, and easy-to-use lists to streamline teachers’ workloads.

As we gear up for the month of Tishrei, Vaad Hatmimim is working diligently to organize a comprehensive program for the Bochurim visiting, providing for all their physical needs with comfortable accommodations and daily meals, coupled with immersive learning, shiurim, farbrengens and much more.

War Summary, Day 352: Netanyahu estimates that half the hostages are still alive, speculation as to whether Sinwar was eliminated, Netanyahu considering the “General’s Plan” and other methods, multiple homes hit in Hezbollah fire, schools remain closed in Northern Israel, IDF prepares for next phases of war, reservists deployed to the north, Iraqi militia joins in to support Hezbollah, and IDF strikes heavily in Lebanon.

After being rejected at a Bar Mitzvah, a twelve-year-old boy in Kfar Chabad left the hall crying and collapsed with a heart issue. Accounts vary about the exact happenings, though everyone is asking to increase in davening, Tehillim, and Ahavas Yisroel for his immediate recovery.

This past Motzoei Shabbos, over 200 English-speaking Bochurim gathered for a Melavah Malka and Chai Elul Farbrengen to start the new year in 770. Among the speakers were the two new staff to the 770 yeshiva R’ Yaisef Greenbaum and R’ Hershel Morosow.

With the Yidden of Eretz Yisroel on everyone’s minds, Crown Heights women will unite as a community to take matters into their own hands, literally, with leading Lubavitch speakers and Meirav Berger, the mother of Agam, a hostage in Gaza, will share her personal plea on Taharas Hamishpacha.

A recently published book is making waves in the Torah community, helping readers comfortably draw their own conclusions regarding a topic too often riddled with misinformation: Moshiach being someone no longer alive. The book includes haskamos from a variety of rabbonim.

A large crowd gathered on 15 Elul in Lubavitch for the inauguration of the rebuilt Zal of the original Tomchei Temimim Yeshiva with the installation of mezuzos by Rabbi Nosson Gurary and Rabbi Yitzchak Kogan, 127 years after it was first started.

Photographer Mordechai Lubecki took a trip to the ancient burial cave of Yoel Hanavi in the fields next to Gush Chalav, where the kevarim are set into the wall of a cave as was customary at that time.

A large fire broke out at Chabad of Greater Orlando during which 5 sifrei Torah suffered damage. Fortunately, everyone evacuated safely and a Torah which survived the Holocaust and is set to be rededicated on Yom Kippur was successfully saved.

In 5744, the Rebbe shared a remarkable story that illustrates the profound significance of the Alter Rebbe. But how can we replicate his spiritual power and influence in 2024?

Today, 19 Elul, marks the 80th yahrzeit of Harav Zorach Halevi Hurwitz a”h of Worcester, MA, one of the first Chabad rabbonim in America who merited to see three Rebbeim.

From the Anash.org Inbox: When elections were announced for Crown Heights Vaad Hakohol, I was quite cynical, questioning how much they could truly accomplish and whether they would genuinely care to make a difference. After a personal experience, I was pleasantly surprised.

With the Chief Rabbi of Russia in attendance, a new Torah scroll was inaugurated in Moscow’s central shul Marina Roscha. The writing of the sefer Torah began at the tragic site of the ‘Nova’ massacre near Gaza, where 383 people were murdered almost a year ago.

I’m not a Chabdnik. I come from the Yeshivish world, where our approach to Torah and Hashkafah is nuanced and guided by the Mesorah of our Rosh Yeshivos. Yet, in the aftermath of the tragic events of October 7, when the news from Eretz Yisroel seemed too overwhelming to process, I found myself at a loss.