Sholom Dovber Markel, the four-year-old son of Dovid and Goldie Markel of Pittsburgh, PA, passed away on Monday after a tragic accident.

Live Now: A Chof Av farbrengen is streaming live from Chicago, led by Rabbi Yoisef Gurevich, mashpia at Lubavitch Mesivta of Chicago.

Camps in Crown Heights gathered for a special rally in 770 in honor of Chof Av. A unique performance by a ventriloquist kept the children amazed and laughing at the puppet’s antics.

Camp Gan Yisroel of the Netherlands used an incentivized card game to motivate the campers to memorize Chassidishe yedios klalios, with outstanding results.

Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov, chairman of Aguch, stops to speak to Harav Yosef Braun of the Crown Heights Beis Din while visiting the Ohel on Monday.

The enthusiastic efforts of dedicated American bochurim to finish the 8th Children’s Torah, which was completed in record time, were saluted at the Siyum on Monday in Yerushalayim.

In only a few hours, the sun will set and the auspicious day will end. Don’t wait, donate now and help strengthen Yiddishkeit in Kazakhstan on the Yahrzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchok, and merit the Rebbe’s incredible bracha. 

Mrs. Devorah Greenberg, matriarch of a large Lubavitcher family, many of whom are serving as shluchim around the world, passed away.

Rabbi Mendel and Fraidy Barber, along with their three children, will be establishing Chabad of Beverly and Salem, the fifth Chabad House in the North Shore region of Massachusetts.

A moving ceremony was held today at the Chabad House in Almaty, Kazakhstan, near the Ohel of Harav Levi Yitzchak, when a young Jew from the city of Kostanay agreed to undergo his Bris Milah.

A wedding celebration in Nizhni Novgorod was joined by Rabbis and Shluchim from all over Russia, and hundreds of local Jews, in appreciation to the local shluchim for all that they do for Jewish life.

Live Now: A historic celebration in Yerushalayim marking the completion of the 8th Children’s Torah, written at the Rebbe’s request to unite Jewish children, is taking place now in Yerushalayim.

Hundreds of Shluchim and Anash gathered Monday morning at the tziyun of the Rebbe’s father Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, in Alma Ata, Kazakhstan, to read a Pan Kloli on behalf of all Chassidim worldwide.

A farbrengen was held at Beth Lubavitch Flandre in Paris to mark the 79th yahrzeit of the Rebbe’s father Harav Levi Yitzchok Schneerson on Chof Av.

As the 8th Grade students are graduating, Cheder Chabad Florida is starting a new girls high school.

Hundreds of guests from the USA, Europe and Eretz Yisroel have been arriving in Almaty for Chof Av, where they prepare to enter the tziyun of Harav Levi Yitzchok. The pan kloli will be read at 1:00 AM ET. 

100 bochurim of the Bar Mitzvah Division of Gan Yisroel Detroit set out on a 16-hour bus ride from Tustin, Michigan to be with the rebbe on Chof Av. The younger division of camp went out to see them off with song and dance.

In accordance with the Rebbe’s personal wish, Vaad Or Vechom Hahiskashrus will be hosting a ZOOM Shiur and Farbrengen to help mark the day of Chof Av, through learning from the Torah of the Rebbe’s father and taking lessons from his life. 

A huge farbrengen was held for the Almaty community heading into the special day of Chof Av. The date has additional personal emotions involved for the local residents, being the place Reb Levik is buried in.

Article by Rabbi Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin: As a young bochur learning by Reb Yoel Kahn, I was surprised to hear him say that Chabad was concerned with emotional health. What he responded, guides me until today.

A construction plan for the chotzer in Lubavitch that was seemingly filed by the Frierdiker Rebbe over 100 years ago was recently discovered, shedding new light on the history of the cradle of Lubavitch chassidus.

The levaya of Mrs. Shifra Schanowitz, a longtime resident of Crown Heights and the matriarch of a large Lubavitch family, passed 770 on Sunday.

A historic public letter written by the Rebbe’s father is on display in the Rebbe’s Library. The letter was written in 5679 (1919) as the First World War was ending, and the world was in turmoil.