Sholom Bayis Blog with Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch. Question #4: My wife really wants to go on vacation but our budget is sort of limited. Do you think it's a necessity?

Chabad Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburg has been detained by police for recommending a book that condones murder of non-Jews who threaten Israel.

16 bochurim recently completed their smicha at the Machon L'Smicha Yeshiva in Melbourne, Australia, directed by Rabbi Yossel Gutnick and Rabbi Faitel Levin.

The Jewish community in Bryansk, Russia welcomed a new Sefer Torah Sunday, the first in the last 100 years.

Baby boy to Leibel and Mindy Wallach (nee Tauber) - Crown Heights

The wedding of Mendy Nachlas of Oak Park, MI to Sarah Keller of Crown Heights took place Sunday at Oholei Torah Hall in Crown Heights.

Baby girl to Eli and Chanie Spalter (nee Boyarsky) - Montreal, Canada

Baby boy to Sholly and Feigie Cohen (nee Treitel) - Crown Heights

The Avner Institute presents a newly released photo of the Rebbe entering a farbrengen in the winter of 1975.

Sanford Rosenthal surfs the web using a talking computer. To find matching clothes each morning, he feels the Braille labels on his shirts. And when the blind social worker wants to study, Rosenthal calls JNet.

An evening of achdus and inspiration in honor of the yartzeits of Rochie (Tauber) Paley, and Mushky and Shternie Shmueli will be held Thursday.

Twin boys to Menachem and Dassi Kirschenbaum (nee Kaplan) - Crown Heights

Campers of Chayolei Hamelech in Pennsylvania enjoyed a grand trip to Six Flags Great Adventure amusement park.

Counselors of the boy's division of Camp Gan Israel of Miami, Florida, played the parts of both bride and groom at the mock wedding of "Roovy" and "Menucha Mindel," to the delight of the campers.

The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn held the first of this summer's "Package Parties," a social event to benefit the organization that assists children with special needs and their families.

17 bochurim from Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto were treated to a ride on a yacht as a reward for successfully studying all of Baba Kama, and were tested by Rabbis Mordechai Ochs and Mendel Aronov.

Crown Heights personality "Charlie" visited Gan Menachem Day Camp at Oholei Torah Wednesday, with the kids dressing up for crazy hat day.

Chassidic singer Avraham Fried sang to a sold out crowd in the famed Sultan's Pool Auditorium in Jerusalem this week. The evening was a celebration of the world renowned singer's 30 years in Jewish music.

Rabbi Yekusiel Alperowitz of the Chabad Center in Hyannis, MA, which was vandalized in 2009, said anti-semitism statistics are "disturbing."

Orange, CT Shliach Adam Haston plans to run in the New York City Marathon to raise money for holocaust survivors.

Baby girl to Meir and Shaina Gurkov (nee Marrus) - Monsey, NY

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) is set to release the BlackBerry 9800 slider to compete with Apple's iPhone.

The wedding of Chaim Schochet of Miami, Florida and Rochel Schechter of Crown Heights took place Monday at Oholei Torah hall in Crown Heights.

A total of 717 pages of Gemara were learned by heart by bochurim of the Detroit Mesivta. Tzvi Alperowitz and Yehoshua Cohen were praised by head Shliach Rabbi Berel Shemtov for memorizing the most.

Bochurim Joshua Soudakoff and Isser Lubecki traveled to connect with the Jewish deaf community of Rochester, NY.

Lubavitch musician Zalman Goldstein has produced two new albums of different styles - Non-Stop Chabad and Chassidic Breeze.

A rally in support of developer Eliyahu Ezagui will be taking place tonight in Crown Heights. Rabbi Yossi Jacobson tells COLlive.com: "Him sitting in prison won't pay bills."

“Get out of Oak Park,” was scrawled across a front wall of Chabad of Oak Park this week, Rabbi Moshe Bryski said.

Shaya Green - Liverpool, England to Leah Breindel - London, England

In a message to Crown Heights, CHJCC Chairman Zaki Tamir says we cannot rely on government support and thanks Rabbi Dovid Fischer and Shaya Gordon for donating $10,000 for the job creation project.