In fulfillment of the Rebbe’s hora’ah to utilize Isru Chag as an opportunity to gather for a Kinnus Torah, Merkos Torah will host a special Isru Chag Sukkos Kinnus Torah on Monday, October 5, at 12:00 PM EST.
In this episode, Rabbi Mayer Plotkin of Montreal, Canada, shares a candid and entertaining conversation about his life experiences- growing up in Montreal, eventually coming to Torah Vodaas in Brooklyn, and, through hashgacha pratis, finding his way to the Rebbe and joining the Lubavitch Yeshivos in Montreal and 770.
With many visitors expected at the Ohel during the upcoming days, Ohel Bus has released its updated transportation schedule connecting Crown Heights, the Ohel, and JFK Airport.
Eligible Medicare Part B enrollees will receive the one-time payment via direct deposit or check thanks to the Medicare Improvement Fund that was established in 2008, according to the White House.
The idea behind GSD is simple: you don’t have to be a fighter, an athlete, or have any previous experience to learn how to protect yourself. You just have to start training.
With great sadness we report the passing of Rabbi Yisroel Eliezer Rubin OBM, the longtime Shliach and director of Chabad of the Capital District in Albany, NY. He passed away on the night of Shemini Atzeres, 5787, shortly after participating in the Hakafos.
Two Iranian nationals have been arrested in the United Kingdom on suspicion of plotting an attack against the Jewish community in Manchester during Yom Kippur.
An initial Israeli investigation into the attempted crash of a Flydubai passenger aircraft traveling from Dubai to Tel Aviv indicates that the incident was likely carried out by a lone attacker, CBS News reported, citing sources familiar with the investigation.
A Georgia man has been arrested and federally charged after allegedly making a disturbing online threat demanding that U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attack a Chabad synagogue and kill Jews, or face the murder of his family.
More than 100 members of the Nice Jewish Runners club made a nice Jewish stop this week as they made their way through Manhattan, New York.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin released his latest new book, Torah in America. It shows that the Rebbe Raayatz and Rebbe not only taught Chasidus but also the revealed part of Torah. It demonstrates the great impact the Rebbeim had on Litvish Judaism.
This year, when the community dances on Simchat Torah, the holiday marking the completion of the annual Torah-reading cycle that begins on Oct. 2, they will be holding scrolls that belong to them.
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.
In a moving display of gratitude following the frightening Flydubai incident earlier this week, Dr. Shota Musaev, who assisted the pilot during the ordeal, visited the Chabad synagogue in the New Nechalat Yehuda neighborhood of Rishon LeZion on Friday to recite Birchas Hagomel.
The Rebbe held 42 farbrengens on Simchas Torah Day. The sichos from these farbrengens span around 1,000 pages in the Yiddish Hanochos (transcripts) in Sichos Kodesh, and around 120 pages in the 14 English Hanochos published by Sichos in English.
Shalom Assouline (Paris, France) to Bracha Labi (Milan, Italy)
Yossi and Mushky (nee Parnes) Teleshevsky from Crown Heights had a baby girl!
