From Days Gone By: Kaparos, Mid 1980s
These three photos depict scenes from Kaparos being performed in Crown Heights in the mid 1980s. Can you identify anyone in the photos?
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Picture of the Day: Shliach Gives Tour of Muslim Nation
Israeli Knesset Member Oren Hazan (left) and Israeli Druze Deputy Minister Mendi Safadi (far right) are given a tour of the Jewish institutions of Azerbaijan by Chabad Shliach and Chief Rabbi Shneor Segal (center left) and Jewish community president Alexander Shapiro (center right) in the Shi’ite Muslim nation’s capital city of Baku.
Left: Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer. Right: Irving wearing Tefilin.
70 Years Later: Holocaust Survivor Has Bar Mitzvah
Rabbi Shaul Wertheimer, co-director of Chabad on Campus Queens in Kew Gardens Hills, N.Y., was making his rounds recently at the Franklin Home for Nursing and Rehabilitation in Flushing, N.Y., where he serves as a chaplain. He happened to check in on an 83-year-old man named Irving Malkis, a nursing-home resident from Manhattan.
Photos: Paris Anash Unite for Hakhel
The Lubavitch community of Paris gathered yesterday, Sunday, in the Chabad Shul for a special Hakhel gathering, joining their brethren all over the world in coordinated, simultaneous events.
Mivtzoim? There’s an app for that!
While many Haredi and Chassidic communities continue to reject modern technologies, the Rebbe always maintained that the “ultimate purpose for which these new technologies were developed is that they be used for holy purposes“. This position dated back in the 1960s, when the Rebbe pioneered broadcasting of Torah and farbrengens around the world.
by David Werdiger
Chabad of Alabama in Birmingham.
Chabad Hosts ‘You Belong in Birmingham’ Shabbos Dinner
On Friday, August 28, over 25 Birmingham young Jewish professionals gathered for a Shabbat dinner at Chabad of Alabama in conjunction with the local You Belong in Birmingham YJP organization. Starting with the Kabbalat Shabbat service, and then proceeding with delectable traditional Shabbat foods such as challah and matza ball soup prepared by Rabbi Levi and Mushka Weinbaum, YBIB belong members truly felt the Shabbat spirit while meeting other young Jewish professionals in Birmingham.
by David Glazer
Secretary of State for Wales Stephen Crabb, left, paid a visit to the Cardiff United Synagogue, led by Chabad-Lubavitch emissary Rabbi Michoel Rose.
Wales Rabbi Builds Sukkah Awareness on BBC Radio
When Jewish people the world over begin putting up sukkahs—the temporary dwellings used during the week-long holiday of Sukkot, which this year begins on the evening of Sunday, Sept. 27—Rabbi Michoel Rose will be adding an additional task to his pre-holiday checklist.
8:00pm: Jewish Guilt; Forgiveness; Faith vs. Superstition; Yom HaKippurim and Purim; Uninspired for the Holidays
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 84, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Jewish Guilt; Forgiveness; Faith vs. Superstition; Yom HaKippurim and Purim; Uninspired for the Holidays.
Laws and Customs: Yom Kippur
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Kapparos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Video: BRHS Launches ‘Challah Bake Challenge’
Bais Rivkah High School students announced the initiation of a new Challah Bake challenge in honor of vov tishrei, Rebbetzin Chana’s Yartzeit.
Body of Missing Israeli Found in Uman
The body of missing Israeli Amir Ohana was found in a river in Uman, Ukraine after he was reported missing last week.
Why Are the Challahs Round?
Have you ever wondered why the challahs we eat during the month of Tishrei are round? Yes I know it is much easier for the bakery to make round challahs than braided ones. However this is a minhag in Jewish communities for hundreds of years, and people didn’t just do it out of convenience.
by Rabbi Sholom Avtzon
Bomb Squad Detonates Suspicious Package near Virginia Chabad House
Police evacuated businesses and rerouted traffic Thursday afternoon when a suspicious package was discovered near the Chabad House in the Ghent neighborhood of Norfolk, Virginia.
Marchers Rally in Crown Heights Against Gun Violence
Dozens of people rallied in Crown Heights yesterday, Thursday, in a call to end gun violence, following the death of an aide to Gov. Andrew Cuomo who was caught in a crossfire during a not-unusually violent Labor Day.
Member of the German Bundestag Klaus-Dieter Gröhler with Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal.
German Officials Celebrate Rosh Hashana with Chabad
On the occasion of Rosh Hashana, the Jewish Educational Center Chabad-Berlin welcomed German politicians and public figures for a reception. Ambassadors, ministers, government members and representatives of parties gathered at the annual new year reception to commemorate the beginning of the Jewish year 5776 and express the importance of supporting Jewish culture in Berlin.
Shabbos at the Besht: All About the Daled Minim
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Elie Matusof will lead a discussion on the topic – All about the Daled Minim.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe distributing coins for tzedakah to children during Tishrei, 1986.
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