During a visit to his grandmother, Rachel Leah Fry, in Daphne, Alabama, for Thanksgiving, 17-year-old Ethan James put on tefillin for the first time with the help of Shliach Rabbi Yosef Goldwasser, using a pair that had belonged to his great-great-grandfather, Wilhelm Sterling, which had been lost for decades.

Within the first 72 hours, nearly 40,000 people visiting the ‘Tzama’ Chassidus events at the Binyanei Hauma complex, featuring musical performances, farbrengens, shiurim, a massive seforim fair, and exhibitions.

Chabad West Hampstead held a powerful and rejuvenating community retreat this past weekend at the East Hampstead Park Hotel, bringing together families, teens, and children for an inspiring Shabbat experience.

A chossid of the Mitteler Rebbe and Tzemach Tzedek, and a senior talmid of R. Aizel Homiler, R. Menachem Nochum Glatman served as the rov of Chernigov before R. Peretz Chein. When a chazan candidate davened with tears, he was certain that his heartfelt davening would win him the position, but the chassidishe rov was not impressed.

Mrs. Rochel Reini, matriarch of a respected Chabad family in Yerushalayim and later Ramat Beit Shemesh, passed away on Wednesday, leaving behind a generation of children and Shluchim.

When a suggestion came up to place a picture of the Rebbe in every newspaper for Yud Tes Kislev, the Rebbe was consulted. However, the Rebbe rejected it outright, calling the practice “nochamachen di velt” (copying worldly trends).

The Crown Heights Women for the Safety and Integrity of Israel launched their new online series, The Architecture of True Peace, this Tuesday, exploring practical blueprints for Jewish redevelopment in Gaza to ensure lasting security through a renewed Jewish presence.

For the first time since the start of the war in Ukraine, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister, Taras Kachka, arrived in Eretz Yisroel together with Ukraine’s chief rabbi, Rabbi Moshe Reuven Azman, where they visited the Kosel and prayed for peace and an end to the war.