The Levertov family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father and husband, R’ Shlom Levertov, OBM, at 808 Mongomery Street, 2nd floor. Shacharis: 7:00, 8:00, 9:00, 9:30. Mincha: 2 Minyanim at 4:00, and 2 Minyanim at 4:15. Maariv: 2 Minyanim […]
The FJC’s “Mishpacha” Orphanage and Children’s home in Odessa, Ukraine, celebrated the opening of its new home Wednesday.
Volunteers from Chabad of Southeast Morris County, New Jersey, delivered 700 Thanksgiving dinners to homebound seniors on Thanksgiving morning. Pictured from left to right are Rabbi Shalom Lubin, Mendel Lubin, Mike Scotti, Rabbi Mendy Lubin, Micheal Harvey, and Mathew Harvey.
During his remaining time in the White House, President Barack Obama should pardon an Iowa Jewish man currently serving a 27-year prison sentence for 86 counts of fraud, internationally renowned legal expert Alan Dershowitz told The Algemeiner on Monday.
Over 3,000 Rabbis from around the world came together and took a group photo as part of the International Conference of Shluchim this past weekend. The photo broke the record for the most rabbis ever pictured together. Filmmaker and comedian Meir Kalmanson takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the event.
Several national and international media outlets have pickup up on the story of Chabad sending an emissary to South Dakota, thus solidifying its permanent presence in all 50 states – a story which was first reported here on CrownHeights.info.
As President Obama counts down his final weeks in the Oval Office, two well-known names in the legal world have called for a presidential pardon for Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin in an op-ed printed by the Wall Street Journal, America’s largest newspaper by circulation.
Channeling the awesome energy from the Kinus Banquet, Shluchim and lay leaders made their way back to 770 and sat down for the – what has become – traditional Farbrengens.
With Donald Trump set to enter the White House in January, American Jews should adopt a “constructive and collaborative” approach in the fight against antisemitism, editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner Dovid Efune said in an interview with the Jewish Broadcasting Service this week.
Over 6,000 Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim and their guests gathered Sunday evening at the Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal for a gala banquet, the culmination of a five-day International Conference of Shluchim.
Over 6,000 Chabad-Lubavitch Shluchim and their guests gathered Sunday evening at the Brooklyn Port Authority Marine Terminal for a gala banquet, the culmination of a five-day International Conference of Shluchim.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 139, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What’s Wrong with a Handshake? Is There a Remedy to Resignation? Are Cartoons OK for Kids? What is the History of the Kinus HaShluchim? Is Anxiety Really a Cry from the Soul? Why Do We Condemn Religious Killing if Torah Commands Us to Do the Same?
Like many retired businessmen who now live abroad, Gerald Teldon, 92, makes a few trips back to the United States each year to visit his grandchildren and great-grandchildren—the 18th of which is due to be born this winter.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a gallery of photos from the International Kinus Hashluchim of 1990. Can you identify those in the photos?
Thousands of Shluchim gathered after Shabbos for a grand Melave Malka and general session at the Palace Ballroom in Boro Park, concluding the fourth day of the International Kinus.
Reb Meir Avtzon was born in 5669 (1909) in Mirogod Ukraine (in the Poltova region) and he was the youngest of nine children. By the time he was ten, the Communists regime closed down the yeshivos and chadorim and he had no place to learn, especially as almost all of the melamdim either ran away or were warned not to continue teaching.
How old is old? Old with an attitude? “Old” is only a perception. And: what side of the family are you going to be from? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah.
