Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, legendary aide of the Previous Rebbe and the Rebbe, prolific author and scholar, whose Yahrtzeit was in Tamuz, at work in the office of the Rebbe’s secretariat.
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While some summer programs in Israel are on hold during the Gaza conflict, others are going full-speed-ahead, with staff continuing to craft plans and itineraries for the fall, making sure that future experiences match successful ones of the past.
The fifth week of camp was filled with excitement, learning, fun and inspiration at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Israel in Parksville, New York were visited by their families, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds. Visiting day was held a week early due to the ‘Nine Days’.
Today, Rosh Chodesh Av, the 550 campers and dozens of staff of Bais Rivkah Day Camp posed for a group portrait in front of Campus Chomesh on Lefferts Ave.
Four people were killed and another four were injured when a mortar shell exploded in one of the Kibbutzim in the Eshkol Region near the Gaza Strip.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the son of a founder of Hamas, reveals the truth about how the terror group aims to kill civilians and uses Palestinian children as human shields.
In preparation for the nine days leading up to Tisha B’av, a free, printable paper model of the Beis HaMikdosh, that kids can assemble, is being made available by Tzivos Hashem Traditional Crafts Workshops.
A minor brouhaha is playing out in local media over signs that have been popping up around Crown Heights, asking “residents, guests and visitors” to dress modestly, as it is “a Jewish neighborhood.”
A Message from the Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi of Venezuela, Rabbi Pynchas Brenner, which he sent to his congregation and followers.
Yitzy and Kayla (nee Pinson) Shapiro (Brussels, Belgium)
A man was arrested after shoplifting from The Marketplace grocery store in Crown Heights. Store employees followed the man around the neighborhood, and when finally calling Shomrim the man was apprehended and swiftly arrested.
Fishel and Shainy (nee Gurary) Oster (Crown Heights)
What do Kabbalah and Chicken Soup have in common? A great Torah class – running ten years – for adults at Chabad of Orange County.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 27, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: bad advice from rabbis, lapses in Kashrus and Taharas Hamishpacha, psychics, stress control and secular studies.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the Nine Days for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday through Wednesday, July 28-30 for for a Muslim holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
The Wellsprings Bungalow Colony Day Camp, under the leadership of head counselors Rabbi Avremy and Bracha Slavaticki, went on Mivtzoim this Friday to Hollywood Country Club in Monticello to distribute Shabbos candles. They were greeted with much enthusiasm.
Due to the renewed threat of Hamas rockets aimed at Ben Gurion Airport, the IDF set up a contingent of Iron Dome anti-missile systems in the vicinity of Kfar Chabad. On Friday, a group of Lubavitcher met with these soldiers and helped them put on Tefilin.
Camp Gan Israel in Parksville, NY marked the completion of the first session of camp, a month filled with learning, fun and spiritual growth. Of particular note was the success of the learning directors’ ‘Kluger’ program, a game-show which creates a fun and competitive atmosphere out of learning class.
Chaim Rendler (Crown Heights) and Bracha Morozow (Crown Heights)
L’chaim Sunday night at 778 Montgomery St. [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
This afternoon, a rocket fired by Hamas from the Gaza Strip was intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome defense system in the skies above Kfar Chabad. Fragments from the rocket landed in a field in the outskirts of the town, mere yards away from residential housing.