“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info presents a weekly feature for the summer months: a short thought of the Rebbe on tznius, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is having a really bad summer. He has been unable to shake a media-driven perception that the Big Apple’s crime-and-homelessness-filled days are returning.
Rabbi Meshulem Feish Lowy, the Tosher Rebbe, known for his magnetic personality and an ever present aura of holiness, died today at the age of 95.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the period of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Two 10-year-olds robbed a 67-year-old woman on a Crown Heights street corner on Monday afternoon, police said. The senior was at Empire Boulevard and Rogers Avenue at 2 p.m. when five tykes approached her, the youngest aged 4, according to the Daily News.
Late Tuesday night Shomrim volunteers apprehended a shoplifter who stole 14 bottles of shampoo – totaling $86.95 in value – from the Kol Tuv grocery store.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Re’eh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we naturally follow G-d?
Members of a Chabad congregation in Orlando, Fl., held a special prayer quorum, or minyan, on Sunday to support a Jewish woman who lost her arm after she was attacked by an alligator in a nearby river last Saturday, the U.K.’s Jewish Chronicle reported.
Congressman Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) on Tuesday indicated he’s leaning towards voting against the Iran nuclear deal.
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