Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of the 17th of Tammuz and the three weeks for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
After learning and hearing stories about the Rebbe from the beginning of camp, campers at CGI-Simcha Monica asked their staff to help them write their own letters to the Rebbe on the Yom HaGeula of the Frierdiker Rebbe, Yud Beis Tammuz.
A 29-year-old Lubavitcher Bochur suffered a broken nose after he was punched in the face by Arab rioters in Paris, France this morning.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 25, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class will address a variety of topics, including secular education, music, summer camp and ‘Mushrooms,’ a term commonly used to describe unaffiliated ‘Shluchim.’
What do you do when bad news just keeps coming? How can you make sense of one tragedy, one loss—and then another and another and another?
Last night, Motzei Shabbos Parshas Pinchos, a large gathering of Anash occurred at the Yeshivah Centre of Melbourne, Australia in response to the serious situation in Eretz Yisroel.
A memorial service was held in Sevastopol on the Crimean Peninsula, recently annexed by Russia, on Thursday to commemorate the tragic events of July 12, 1942, when more than 4,200 Jews were killed by Nazi forces.
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter written by Rabbi Nissan Mindel on behalf of the Frierdiker Rebbe, which he shared with a learning group he conducted in Manhattan. The letter was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Residents of St. Marks Avenue in Crown Heights are saying that police are giving them parking tickets as payback, after an officer was hurt by a bicycle that was dropped on his head last weekend.
Rabbi Yisroel Shemtov, an active member of the Crown Heights community, Farbrenged last night with the Anash community of Los Angeles, where he is currently visiting, at Chabad of South La Cienega in honor of Yud Beis Tammuz.
With tens of thousands of Israel Defense Force troops amassed at the Gaza border prepared for an incursion at any moment, and Hamas rockets continuing to threaten the lives of millions of people in every part of Israel, there were renewed calls for prayer, study and acts of kindness in support of all those in danger throughout the nation.
The campers of Gan Yisroel-Parksville’s younger division enjoyed a special treat yesterday, when their campgrounds transformed into the enchanted place of every child’s imagination – Candyland!
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Dovid Losh will lead a discussion on the topic – The Real Me: as described by the Tanya and its connection to the Parsha.
The Rebbe sits next to the Rebbe Rayatz at the 1942 Lubavitcher Yeshiva fundraising dinner. When the Frierdiker Rebbe stand up to say a Sicha (a very difficult task due to injuries he sustained in Soviet prison), the Rebbe stands alongside him and assists him.
In honor of Yud Beis Tammuz, the birthday and Chag Hage’ulah of the Frierdiker Rebbe, a grand Farbrengen was held at Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ.
50 years ago today, Yud Beis Tammuz, 1964, the cornerstone was laid for a new building in Kfar Chabad, called Beis Shazar.
Today, Yud Beis Tammuz, is the anniversary of the release of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, the Rebbe Rayatz, from Soviet prison in 1927. Presented is a series of articles from the archives of JTA News, after the 1927 arrest and later release of the Rebbe Rayatz.
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