Thousands of students from schools across South Florida; from Miami to Palm Beach, came together in unity for an amazing program hosted in the Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, FL, organized by Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
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This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 117, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Are Some People Born with Physical Disabilities? Does The Torah Discriminate Against Them? What’s The Secret to Aging with Dignity? How Can We Know if Passion Is Being Channeled Properly?
At Yeshiva LeRabbonus Pretoria, the South Africa smichah program under Rabbi Gidon Fox, students have recently finished an amazing zman that included relevant classes in chasidus by Rabbi Yosef Kesselman and Shulchan Oruch Yoreh Deah with real life application by Rabbi Chaim Finkelstein, the Rosh Yeshiva.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day.
On Friday, May 27, Mr. Harry Triguboff was officially named the richest man in Australia by the Business Review Weekly. As he does every Friday, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, director of Our Big Kitchen, visited Mr. Triguboff in his Sydney office to deliver fresh Challah for Shabbos. This week, however, the Challah was braided in a unique shape to celebrate the occasion.
On Friday morning, an 8-year-old student of The Albany Avenue School (P.S. 91) in Crown Heights, which is located across the street from Lefferts Park, brought a loaded handgun to school, prompting an emergency police response.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Behar. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah first command us to agriculturally rest on the seventh sabbatical year, only afterwards telling us about working the land during the preceding six years? Shouldn’t the order have been reversed?
Lying down on the ground Ivan saw the train slow down to almost a standstill as it approached the curve and then proceeded very slowly. This was the moment he was waiting for. Running over to one of the back cars, he grabbed hold of the ladder and climbed up.
Soviet Jewish underground rabbi Hillel Zaltzman made history by being honored at the US Senate in Washington, D.C. A special award was presented to him by Senator Ben Cardin (D-Maryland), who said that Rabbi Zaltzman is an inspiration to all.
Alicia Boyd, the notoriously anti-Semitic and anti-white founder of the Movement to Protect the People (MTOPP), an organization which uses hateful tactics to oppose any commercial developments in Crown Heights, allegedly assaulted a worker who was cutting grass at the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, a witness told CrownHeights.info.
Cheder at the Ohel had its annual Lag Ba’omer Parade in Valley Stream State Park. The theme was Hakhel.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Hilel Heller, Rosh Yeshiva of the Westchester Yeshiva, will lead a discussion on the topic of Sefiras Ha’omer.
Applications are now open for 30 affordable apartments in a large, newly constructed building in Crown Heights. One-bedroom apartments will cost only $913 per month, and two-bedrooms will go for $1,065 per month. The apartments will be raffled off among the eligible applicants.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe at the 1987 Lag Ba’omer Parade.
The Comrades Marathon is to South Africa what the New York City Marathon is to the United States. Only two times as long. At 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, the world’s oldest and largest marathon is billed as the ultimate human race. When the gun goes off this Sunday morning at 5:30, 20,000 runners will descend from the Kwazulu Natal town of Pietermaritzburg to Durban on the sea. Along the way, they will be feted by course-side bands and adoring spectators. And Rabbi Shlomo Wainer.
As we approach the 49th anniversary of the Six-Day War, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he discusses the miracle of the Six-Day War and of the Yom Kippur War. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Get to know the man behind Yesh Tikvah, Toda, and countless of hits. Ride along with Benny Friedman in filmmaker Meir Kalmenson‘s second installment of Carpool Karaoke.
