On Tuesday night, the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim Ha’olami, the organization seeing to the needs of the numerous guests who arrived in Crown Heights for Tishrei, organized a Shiur on Chassidus delivered by Rabbi Yoel Kahan.
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As the new year approached, the Chabad Shliach to Nepal, Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, found himself trapped in a nightmare that only ended on the second day of Rosh Hashanah. Instead of leading the prayers and Yom Tov meals for the hundreds of Jewish tourists and locals at his Kathmandu Chabad Center, the revered rabbi spent the holiday in a decrepit prison, all due to an error made by a Nepalese official on his visa.
As we are all making our final preparations to usher in the new year, we – the staff at CrownHeights.info – would like to wish our loyal readers, fans, contributors and tipsters a happy and healthy sweet new year, K’siva Vachasima Tova, Leshono Tova Tikosaivu V’Tichosemu and a Gut Gebentched Yohr.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday issued Rosh Hashanah greetings to the Jewish community in Russia and worldwide at a meeting with Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Last night a Farbrengen was held in the ‘small zal’ of 770 for the Tishrei guests, led by the Mashpia Rabbi Shlomo Zarchi.
As we prepare to enter the new year, let us take a journey through the top headlines published on CrownHeights.info over the year of 5774.
At a packed function of about 800 people at Sydney’s Dalton House, Our Big Kitchen has been inducted into the Hall of Fame in recognition of its Community Service by Restaurant and Catering Australia.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Thursday and Friday, September 25-26, for Rosh Hashanah. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying the after-blessing after distributing Kos Shel Bracha.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ha’azinu. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be joyous in challenging times? A bonus video on what one should meditate on when hearing the Shofar on Rosh Hashanah is presented in the extended article.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he explains the idea of hashgocho protis as we see it in the 27th Perek of Tehillim – “L’Dovid H’ Ori,” which we say during Elul and most of Tishrei. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
A 29-year-old Queens man has been indicted by Brooklyn’s D.A. for an armed carjacking that he allegedly committed on the corner of Eastern Parkway and Utica Ave. in Crown Heights this summer.
Among the tens of thousands of Jews who made the pilgrimage to Uman, Ukraine to spend Rosh Hashanah near the burial place of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov was a group of Lubavitcher Chassidim. A ‘Chabad House’ with a Nusach Ari minyan was set up for their convenience.
A federal appeals court has reinstated a Chabad rabbi’s lawsuit accusing the Litchfield Historic District Commission of religious discrimination when it rejected plans for a synagogue in 2007.
President Barrack Obama wishes all those celebrating Rosh Hashanah a happy and healthy new year.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Rosh Hashanah and the Ten Days of Teshuva, Blowing Shofar and Tzom Gedalia for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Update: Guide from Crown Heights Badatz Added.
Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez and Director of The Miami-Dade Police Dept. J.D. Patterson met with some of South Florida’s leading rabbis and community leaders yesterday to discuss security plans for the various Jewish communities throughout the south Florida county over the High Holidays.
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