Peretz Schmukler, an artist and longtime member of the Lubavitch community of Montreal, was approached Thursday night by an elderly Chosid, who handed him an envelope with a doodle on it that he had drawn as a child in 1985.
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In 1988, just a few weeks after the passing of his wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka, the Rebbe launched a new campaign. In commemoration of her birthday, the Rebbe called on Jews around the world to start celebrating their birthdays in Jewish spirit. Through making a gathering at which to speak words of Torah, give charity, and make positive resolutions, the birthday would become a day to propel a person forward in his service of the creator.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yisroel Newman will lead a discussion on the topic – Matters close to home.
A few months later there was a thunderstorm, and a bolt of lightening scored a direct hit on the rich man’s warehouse; his entire fortune was going up in smoke. While the cynic felt sorry for the Chosid’s loss, he was eager to pounce on him when he would miss making his daily statement of “Simcha, Emunah and Bitachon.”
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he discusses the “why not” of interfaith dialogue. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe listening to Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
Chabad Lubavitch of Donetsk, Ukraine, a city currently torn by the civil war gripping the country, celebrated Purim with Jewish refugees in exile – in the nation’s capital city of Kiev.
The São Paulo Court of Justice has awarded $1,400 to Isaac Kopfler, a Brazilian Jew traveling aboard Lufthansa Airlines from Zurich to São Paolo, after the German airline failed to provide kosher food for their passenger despite his request for it at the time he purchased his ticket. The incident occurred on March 21, 2012.
Fed up with the mistreatment and disrespect he endured at the hands of a Shliach whom he dedicated his Purim holiday to assist, a Lubavitcher Bochur details to Shluchim how Bochurim should ideally be treated, and why it’s important to treat them that way.
Remember “The Golden Crown”, that wonderful story tape you listened to at bedtime or on long car rides? This Sunday, “The Golden Crown” will come to life, in a production by the students of Bnos Chomesh Academy in Crown Heights!
Over two-hundred state and federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, scholars and prison officials attended the first ever Alternative Sentencing Key Stakeholders Summit this past week to advance criminal justice reform nationwide. The summit was hosted by the Aleph Institute, the premier Jewish organization that cares for the institutionalized and their families, founded at the express direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Crown Heights is geared up and ready to greet a group of young scholars who have mastered the 613 Mitzvos and will be competing for gold, silver, and bronze medals in the International 613 Mitzvos Chidon Competition.
After searching for years in ashrams in India and yeshivas in Jerusalem, Reform Rabbi Burt Siegel finally reconnects with his Judaism — in a New York City Chabad House.
This morning, a car parked on Crown Heights’ busiest thoroughfare was burglarized in broad daylight, yet the thief perpetrated his crime unhindered.
Mr. Michael (Michel) Allouche lives with his wife and family in Israel, where for the past 24 years he has worked as an internationally recognized expert in the field of Unmanned Aircraft Systems. He was interviewed in the My Encounter Studios in January of 2016.
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed New York State Assemblyman David Weprin (D-Queens), who called for the suspension of state funds for the Students for Justice in Palestine at CUNY.
Chani (Anne) Neuberger, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors and the daughter of a father who escaped communist Hungary, said she feels both gratitude toward the United States and a sense of commitment as an observant Jew.
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