Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, the Rov and Moro D’asro of Crown Heights, gave a Shiur on the Halachos of the selling of Chometz according to the shita of the Alter Rebbe. The Shiur was given in the new Kolel for young men in 770 Montgomery Street.
Pictures from the L’chaim of Sholom Ber Haller (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Chaya Mushka (bas Elozar) Raichik (Crown Heights), which took place Monday night at Beis Levi Yitzchok in Crown Heights.
Simon Gronowski was 11 years old when his mother pushed him off a train transport to Auschwitz, saving his life. His mother and sister were gassed upon arriving in Auschwitz, and his father, he says, died of a broken heart in 1945.
What would happen if more than 600 Jewish college students came together for an enormous gathering? A couple of weeks ago, Chabad at the University of Central Florida reached this accomplishment when their premier event, “Shabbat 613,” took place in the Pegasus Grand Ballroom of the Student Union.
“Ten minutes before 8 p.m. [on March 11], my wife Rashi sat at the head of the beautifully set dining-room table waiting for women to arrive for her weekly [Tuesday-night] class in our home called ‘Torah and Tea,’ ” writes Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz, director of Chabad of North Fulton, near Atlanta.
On the 23rd of Adar, 1994, a Lebanese terrorist named Rashid Baz opened fire on a van full of Lubavitcher Bochurim on the Brooklyn Bridge. In the attack, Ari Halberstam, HYD, was killed. 20 years after the murder, which shocked the world, we present a collection of photos and news broadcasts which gave broad coverage to the incident.
From all over Brooklyn, fathers and sons eagerly made their way to United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Ocean Parkway early Sunday morning, 6:30am.
An overcast sky hung above the honking and noisy mess that is Kathmandu, Nepal. It was not even a week before Passover, and Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, the Chabad emissary to Nepal, was worried whether the supply shipment sent from Israel would arrive in time to prepare and feed the Kathmandu Passover Seder, the largest of its kind in the world.
A group of Chassidim from Eretz Yisroel spent this past Shabbos in Lizensk, Poland, to spend the Yahrtzeit of the Tzadik Reb Elimelech near his gravesite.
In a neighborhood with more cars than parking spots, the difficulty of finding a place to leave one’s vehicle can be really frustrating to many Crown Heights motorists.
Please take a moment a say a Kapital Tehillim for Chaya Mushka bas Soro Leah, a young Lubavitch woman who was in a serious car accident.
More than three hundred rabbis from across Europe, a large number of them Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries, convened in Budapest, Hungary on Monday for the annual conference of the Rabbinical Congress of Europe (RCE).
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