Municipal official in the southern French city of Marseilles have apparently requested that Chabad cancel their annual public Menorah lighting ceremony, due to security concerns stemming from an anti-Semitic attack on a Jewish teacher in the city last Wednesday.
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This past Sunday night, members of the Jewish community of Great Neck, NY, joined together to celebrate the Bar Mitzvah of young Shliach Sholom Dovber Chayempour. The Bar Mitzvah boy was joined by his classmates and teachers, who traveled from Crown Heights to attend the celebration.
The Maccabeats are back with a new music video for Chanukah This year their entertaining song comes with a delicious recipe for latkes.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayishlach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one merit to live a life without any pain, and with only true peace and happiness?
For the first time in decades, a large group of Chassidim spent last Shabbos, 9-10 Kislev – the birthday, Yahrtzeit and Chag Hageulah of the Mitteler Rebbe, Rabbi Dovber of Lubavitch – at his gravesite in the Ukrainian town of Niezhin.
Members of the historic New Jersey synagogue Congregation Poale Zedek in New Brunswick, NJ, along with Jews from all around the region, gathered yesterday to bury nine Torah scrolls and hundreds of books that were destroyed in a fire – along with the synagogue itself.
The three-day ‘Babyland Expo’ in Tel Aviv, which was held from Tuesday to Thursday last week, attracted around 30,000 visitors this year. Many of them stopped to do a Mitzvah at Chabad’s ‘Mivtzoim’ stand.
HaMesivta is working on another hands-on learning project: This time around, the bochrim are making wine for Pesach, learning step by step all about its intricate process.
Wedding ‘Shtick’ – horseplay with the holy intention of bringing joy to a bride and groom – was brought to a whole new level at a recent wedding in Monsey when an actual horse joined the lively dancers on the ballroom dance-floor.
Two Palestinian teenaged girls, aged 14 and 16, stabbed an elderly man with a pair of scissors in Jerusalem’s Machane Yehuda market this afternoon, thinking he was an Israeli. The 80-year-old victim was later revealed to be a Palestinian resident of Betlehem.
All of us know someone who needs a Shidduch, and a special time, place and Zechus together can bring that Brocho. Devorah Benjamin, founder and director of KSCVK, has gone to the Ohel several occasions to daven for people who need a Shidduch, with a suggested donation of one hundred dollars per name.
A behind-the-scenes glimpse at the new video, ‘Nigunim of the Rebbe,’ being produced by the makers of Mitzvah Boulevard and Bella Bracha, starring Benny Friedman.
An 18-year-old Israeli man was stabbed at a gas station on Highway 443 near Jerusalem and died from his injuries, while another victim was lightly injured. IDF forces at the scene killed the terrorist.
Following a successful Kickstarter campaign, alternative-rock band Bulletproof Stockings are gearing up to drop their debut full length, Homeland-Call-Stomp, later this December.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 91, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Tes-Yud Kislev; The Rebbe Rashab and Freud; Staying Inspired as a Community Leader; When Children Choose Another Path.
About a week ago, CrownHeights.info published an article on the ongoing story of Mr. Martin Mendelsohn, OBM, a Jewish man from Monsey whose non-religious brother was determined to have him cremated at all cost. A legal battle between him and the Orthodox-Jewish funeral home director made its way up to New York’s Supreme Court, but without a clear will from Martin detailing his desire for a Jewish burial, the prospects of success seemed dim.
About two weeks ago, the students of Bnos Menachem heard the shocking news that their dear Morah, Sara Deren, had suddenly passed away. “When meeting Morah Sara Deren, the first thing one noticed was her constant, kind smile and joie de vivre,” a Bnos Menachem parent said.
