This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 73, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special summer edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: The Challenges and the Opportunities of Vacation; Contemporary Lessons from 12 Tammuz; Reward and Punishment.
Affluent Wilmette, a Chicago suburb on Lake Michigan where homes go for 40% more than other area suburbs, attracts well to do families looking for amenities and good public schools. Compared to neighboring Skokie, Northbrook or the Rogers Park neighborhood, it does not have much of a Jewish infrastructure.
This summer Merkos shlichus Bochurim will travel to over 1000 cities and towns. Their goal: Meet Jewish people and help bring them closer to their creator.
The campers of Camp Gan Yisroel-Parksville awoke Thursday morning under the impression that it would be just another regular day in camp. But there is no such thing as a “regular day” in Gan Yisroel.
With great sadness, shock and deep pain we inform you of the tragic and untimely passing of Chaya Mushka (Moussia) Zaltzman OBM, daughter of Rabbi Zalman and Perla Zaltzman Ybd”l Shluchim in Canada. She was 6 years old.
Eastern Parkway was shut down Shabbos afternoon after police received a report of a suspicious package near 770. The entire vicinity remained closed for over two hours as police investigated.
The education the previous Rebbe received from a young age increased his desire to help others, and even as a child, he was prepared to pay a high price for his ideals, as the story of his first imprisonment relates.
