Venetian Pop Art Comes to Crown Heights
The Creative Soul Gallery of Crown Heights has announced the grand opening of its first solo art show, featuring the powerfully vibrant works of Italian artist David Ariel de Guglielmi.
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Knesset Elects New Israeli President
Israel’s parliament on Tuesday elected its former speaker Reuven “Rubi” Rivlin to be the country’s 10th President, a mainly ceremonial post that he’ll take when current President Shimon Peres‘ term ends in July.
Photos: Chabad Chasidim Spend Shavuos in Mezhibuzh
Among the hundreds of Chasidim who traveled to Mezhibuzh, Ukraine for Shavuos, to spend the Yahrzeit of the Baal Shem Tov near his burial place, was a group of Chabad Chassidim led by Rabbi Nachman Yosef Twerski of Crown Heights and Rabbi Chaim Sholom Deutsch of Jerusalem.
New York Post Pays Tribute to the Rebbe
The New York Post featured an extended tribute to the life of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in the paper’s June 7th edition, in honor of his upcoming 20th Yom Hilula early next month. In a feature titled ‘How one rabbi modernized Judaism and began a movement,’ staff writer Gary Buiso explores the life and legacy of the Rebbe, and the movement he led to bring Torah Judaism into the 21st Century.
Where Chabad’s Lost Boys Go to Find Themselves
The Bais Menachem Youth Development program, a Chabad Yeshiva for ‘at-risk’ youth in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, is the subject of this intriguing feature article published today by the JTA, written by Uriel Heilman.
In Crown Heights, Once Torn by Race Riots, a Friendly Game of Soccer
The World Cup may be days away, but in Brooklyn, the Crown Heights Cup game on Sunday may be almost as important. In some ways, it is more important.
New York Times
Video: Lubavitcher Family Rescued from Flooded Van
Tanya, the mother of a Lubavitch family in Staten Island, was driving five of her young children to Cheder in Morristown this morning, when her car began to submerge in flooding caused by heavy rains. The dramatic rescue of the family was caught on camera by ABC 7 Eyewitness News.
YG-Melbourne Poses for Year-End Group Portrait
The students and faculty members of Yeshiva Gedolah of Ausralia and New Zealand gathered outside their Melbourne campus to pose for a year-end group portrait.
Biography of the Rebbe Hits Amazon’s Top 100
It has not even been published yet, but Rabbi Joseph Telushkin‘s latest book, Rebbe: The Life and Teachings of Menachem M. Schneerson, the Most Influential Rabbi in Modern History has hit Amazon’s list of its 100 best selling books.
Video: Shliach Interviews Crown Heights Assemblyman
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Karim Camara, whose district includes most of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View.’
Rabbi Pinny Marozov visiting the oldest man in America—Alexander Imich, age 111, who lives on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Photo: Chabad.org.
Oldest Man in the World, a Jew, Dies at 111
Alexander Imich, a Jewish holocaust survivor and the oldest man in the world, passed away yesterday at the age of 111.
8:00pm: How to Interact with Unfrum or Non-Jewish Family Members
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 20, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled Family Diversity: Unfrum or Non-Jewish Family Members.
Shluchim Discuss Anti-Semitism with EU Commissioner
A delegation of the European Jewish Association (EJA), headed by its General Director Rabbi Menachem Margolin; Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, Chief Rabbi of The Netherlands; Rabbi Avi Tawil, director of the European Jewish Community Centre; and Rabbi Mendel Pevzner of the European Jewish Youth Association, met with the European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism, Sport, Media and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, in order to address Rabbi Margolin’s recent call to establish a pan-European taskforce in order to annihilate anti-Semitism, following the recent terror attack in Brussels.
The new Arena da Amazonia built with capacity to hold 46,000 people. Inset: Rabbi Arieh and Dvorah Lea Raichman, and three of their four children.
Chabad in Heart of Amazon Readies for World Cup Fans
Maintaining Jewish life in the heart of the Amazon is anything but simple for Rabbi Arieh and Dvorah Lea Raichman, who settled in Manaus, Brazil, in 2009. Like their counterparts all over the Portuguese-speaking country, they will be using their know-how and resources to accommodate the confluence of Jewish visitors who will descend on their city during the 2014 FIFA World Cup, which is slated to take place in 12 cities scattered across Brazil from mid-June to mid-July.
Spain Offers Citizenship to Sephardic Jews
On Friday, Spain’s royal cabinet approved a bill allowing Sephardic Jews, who descend from Jews expelled from the Iberian Peninsula over 500 years ago, the right to Spanish citizenship.
Video: Mendy Pellin Solves the Shiduch Crisis
Chasidic Comedian Mendy Pellin offers a novel solution to the Shidduch Crisis in this stand-up comedy special.
Typical scene on the streets of Donetsk, Ukraine.
Jews Pray for Safety and Aid as Military Action Increases in Eastern Ukraine
It’s past 10 p.m. in Donetsk, Ukraine, and the streets are empty. The city’s public transportation system is silent—the trains and buses now cease operating at 8 p.m.—and most residents have shut themselves within their own homes. With masked men toting Kalashnikov rifles roaming the streets, the Jewish community of Donetsk finds itself praying for its safety and for the safety of all citizens in this eastern city near the border with Russia.
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