From the pre-shabbos chavrusah learning, visiting the rebbe’s room in 770, and followed by a powerful Kabbalas Shabbos where the Crown Heights community welcomed the teens to takeover the main shul, the CTeen Shabbaton ha rocked Crown Heights.
Watch over 4,500 Jewish teens gather in New York City in an uplifting display of Jewish pride and unity; featuring a special Havdalah ceremony, meaningful inspiration and an exhilarating concert featuring Noam, Nissim Black, and Eli Marcus.
A Hazardous Travel Advisory has been issued for New York City beginning Sunday, February 22 through Monday, February 23 as the National Weather Service (NWS) forecasts 12-20 inches of snow citywide, with a chance of higher localized totals.
President Trump said Saturday he’s going to bump his newly imposed global tariff to 15%, in the wake of the Supreme Court decision blocking his sweeping import taxes on international trading partners.
A week before we left, on February 4th, we had an audience with the Rebbe. A week later, early on a Friday morning, we all arrived with our luggage at 770, from where we would take a bus to the New York Harbor and begin our journey to France aboard the RMS Queen Mary.
New York will no longer give commercial driver’s licenses to non-citizens, following the Trump administration’s tightening of restrictions and threats to withhold $73 million in federal funding from the state.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
The Big Apple is likely to be hit by 3 to 6 inches of snow Sunday evening into Monday morning with strong wind gusts up to 40 mph, said AccuWeather chief meteorologist Jonathan Porter.
Running Thursday through Sunday night, the Shabbaton fans teens out across 23 different tracks through New York City before drawing them back to Crown Heights for a powerful Shabbos candle lighting, opening 25 hours of tefillos, meals, learning, and inspiration.
When Segev Kalfon was held hostage in Gaza, he pledged to shout Shema Yisroel to the world. He got his chance on Friday, when he donned tefillin with the teens taking part in the CTeen Shabbaton.
New York City’s top elected officials joined more than 4,500 Jewish teenagers from 60 countries on Thursday night to kick off the 18th annual CTeen International Summit—the world’s largest gathering of Jewish teens.
Shabbos at the BESHT: Rabbi Levy Djian, Shliach in Manhattan, is the founder and Director of Torah on Demand, a network of one-on-one Torah lessons for businessmen. His passion and love for learning brought him to lead a weekly Chassidus class in Crown Heights that inspires many. He will be giving this week’s Shiur on Adar Happiness.
This week I am going to post something I mentioned by a farbrengen last Shabbos, adding additional insight which I heard from Rabbi Nissin Mangel. As always, your feedback and comments are greatly appreciated and welcomed.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman invites his readers to join him in his joy and Simcha, celebrating a new and unending beginning.
Dashev’s portrait of Reb Yoel is part of the photographer’s ambitious Rabbi Project: Some 200 portrait sessions conducted across more than a decade, creating what Dashev calls “an encyclopedia of contemporary Jewish rabbis and personalities.”
The convoy will depart from the Lubavitch Educational Center (LEC) and drive through the city before the tanks disperse to their various mivtzoim locations to distribute Shmurah Matzah and help Yidden with Tefillin.
Shmuly and Rochel Leah Lang from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachar: Ohel Nosson, 580 Crown Street, Back Room
