Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yehoshua ben Risha Leorah, a 2-year-old boy with cancer who is undergoing surgery today, and for Yitzchak Ben Sarah, a Shliach who needs our prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.
The mayor of Ukraine’s second-largest city was shot in the back while out jogging Monday morning, and was reported to be in critical condition following emergency surgery.
A Kinus Hatmimim was organized by the Talmidei Hashluchim of Yeshivah Gedolah Zal in Melbourne, Australia, in honour of Chof Ches Nissan.
New York City’s growing Orthodox Jewish population has lead to its Yeshivas, which already boast over 100,000 students, overtaking Catholic schools as the largest enroller of students outside of the city’s public schools.
CrownHeights.info has learned that Rabbi Yehuda and Chaya Matusof will be joining the team of Shluchim in the city of West Hartford, Connecticut, where they will serve as youth directors for the thriving local Jewish community.
Just in time for passers-by to recite the customary blessing for trees before the month of Nissan ends, the iconic tree in the front yard of 770 Eastern Parkway – Chabad World Headquarters – has bloomed with beautiful white flowers, signalling an end to a particularly harsh winter for the residents of the city.
A former Orthodox Jewish man from New Jersey was sentenced to two and a half years in prison Friday for posting violent and threatening posts on his Islamic group’s Web site intended to incite violence against those who he believed were offensive to his Islamic beliefs.
Yesterday a video was posted online of an NYPD van informing Crown Heights residents of Mayor Bill De Blasio’s new “Vision Zero” plan, which seeks to reduce traffic fatalities. The loudspeaker blares the message first in English, then in Yiddish, in what is no doubt part of the mayor’s efforts to reach wider communities.
Rabbi Ben Tzion Krasnianski, co-director of Chabad of the Upper East Side, said he got a call out of the blue, notifying him that he had won an OTTY award. Given out by the weekly paper Our Town, with sister publications throughout Manhattan, the awards are presented to community leaders and vital contributors—in other words, people who stand out from the rest.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch Jacobson will lead a discussion on the topic – blessing the new month of Iyar: The month of healing.
Can you be too religious? Ought one to deprecate a person whose religious observance seems “Over the top?” Are the terms “Ultra-Kosher,” or “Ultra-Orthodox,” really objective?
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1970.
400 Jewish families in the Russian city of Ulyanovsk received food packages to help them meet their needs for the holiday of Passover. The packages were prepared and delivered by the local Chabad Center, directed by Rabbi Yossi Marozov.
Israeli a cappella group Armon-Ya sings the popular tune known as the Tzemach Tzedek’s Niggun instrument-free for Sefiras Ha’omer, set to a video depicting touching scenes of kindness from one Jew to the next.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter sent – not from the Rebbe, but – from Rabbi Nissan Mindel on his own accord, in which he responds to certain criticisms aimed at the Rebbe and Chabad. The letter was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
A group of half-a-dozen Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity brothers from the State University of New York (SUNY) at Oneonta in upstate New York went on the road for eight days to promote Jewish identity and pride.
In anticipation of Passover, the Chabad center of Castel-Mevaseret Tzion, a suburb of Jerusalem, distributed thousands of food packages to needy families in the area.
