Just one day after the burial of the three murdered teenage boys, the parents of three boys became the subject of criticism from an unexpected source: the Satmar Rebbe.
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who represents New York’s 9th district – which includes Crown Heights –, is among few members of Brooklyn’s congressional delegation that has not signed a bipartisan letter to President Obama demanding that he consult with congress and obtain its approval before striking any potential deal with Iran.
Update: CrownHeights.info has been notified that Rep. Clarke has signed the letter.
Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, who represents New York’s 9th district – which includes Crown Heights –, is among few members of Brooklyn’s congressional delegation that has not signed a bipartisan letter to President Obama demanding that he consult with congress and obtain its approval before striking any potential deal with Iran.
Update: CrownHeights.info has been notified that Rep. Clarke has signed the letter.
Eight summer camps from across south Florida joined together for the annual ‘camp unity day’ event in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, which was held in the Dezer Car Museum. Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network of Florida organized two incredible programs, one for the girls’ and one for the boys’ camps.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Balak. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Can one’s ego be transformed?
The Jewish community of Berlin, Germany’s capital, is fighting against an ordinance requiring that the burial of the all city’s dead be delayed for 48 hours in case an autopsy is required. Rabbi Yehudah Teichtel, Chabad Shliach to the city, is leading the charge against the law, on the grounds that it requires Berlin’s Jews to violate Halacha.
Surrounded during a meal in the dining room for an impromptu discussion, Rabbi Avrohom M. Segal, the educational consultant who came specially form Israel to present at the Kinus HaMechanchim, expressed his delighted surprise at the level of the discourse.
Chassidic rapper Ari Lesser reacts to the devastating news that the three missing Israeli teenagers were found dead, having benn brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists soon after they were kidnapped.
Hundreds of Jewish residents of the holy city of Tzfas, Israel, from all backgrounds and affiliations, gathered last night at a local Simcha hall for a grand Farbrengen marking 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz.
CrownHeights.info has obtained Never-before-seen footage of the Rebbe davening Shachris, which was filmed by the family of an Israeli boy who came to celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah in 770 in the winter of 1991.
On the last day of school, the students of Yeshivas Darchei Menachem’s Shiur Beis celebrated with two of their fellow classmates on the occasion of their completion of an entire Masechta of Gemara over the course of the year.
Israel doesn’t have a partner in peace. It doesn’t take 41 years to negotiate an understanding that we have a right not to be slaughtered. If we would have a peace partner, it should take no longer than 41 minutes to negotiate an eternal ceasefire.
When Rabbi Benjamin Blech was asked by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to go on a speaking tour in the Far East, he balked. The counsel the Rebbe gave Rabbi Blech changed his outlook on Jewish identity forever, and inspired his philosophy of a Jewish solidarity that disregards our individual differences.
Dan Pine, a writer for the San Francisco area newspaper J Weekly, wrote the following feature article on the family of Chabad Shluchim in the Bay Area, which we share with our readers in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, wrote the following article on OU.org describing what he sees as the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s contribution to Torah Scholarship.
Over the past week, four large events were held in Manchester, UK in honor of Gimmel Tammuz, aimed at each individual segment of the local Jewish Community.
Men, women and children from throughout Israel traveled today to the homes of Eyal Yifrach, 19, from Elad; Gilad Shaar, 16, from Talmon; and Naftali Frenkel, 16, from Nof Ayalon for their funerals. The groups joined together at the Modi’in cemetery, where the boys were laid to rest side-by-side.
On Monday, in a joint resolution, the NJ State Senate and Assembly unanimously declared July 1, 2014 as a “Day of Good Deeds” throughout the Garden State. This date was chosen to coincide with Hebrew date commemorating the 20th anniversary of the passing of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Scheerson, the most influential Jewish leader in modern history.
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