RocaNews On YouTube Makes A Visit To Crown Heights
RocaNews, an independent media company, came to Crown Heights to learn about one of the most unique religious communities in the world — the Hasidic Jews.
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Empower Your Educators: Course on Mental Health for Middle and High School Staff
Taught by a team of professionals in the mental health field, this course will cover critical topics, including: depression, ADHD, trauma, suicide, the role of a teacher, and how to effectively communicate with parents.
Collaboration Over Competition: The Key To Embracing Diversity
How do we teach children to embrace diversity? I submit that we don’t need to; we just have to stop unteaching it. Children are not born with prejudice.
Day-to-Day Guide for the 3-Weeks and Summer 5785
Attached are the laws customs and selected sichos for the Three Weeks (17 until 15’th of Menachem Av) Summer Months, by Horav Yosef Yeshaya Braun, shlita, member of the Badatz of Crown Heights.
Bais Habechira Video With Rabbi Chananya Hoffinger – Day #1
Today’s video goes through the Har Habayis; from its size to the 5 different entrances to it. You will also see the size of the Har Habayis relative to the area around 770.
Derher: New “Three Weeks” Challenge for Kids
We all know how the Rebbe encouraged us to learn Hilchos Beis Habechira—the halachos of the Bais Hamikdash during the three weeks. The Rebbe specified that this applies to children as well.
In-Person Event Graduates Shluchim Online School Class of 5785
These students only know each other through the computer screen and have studied together since 1st grade, so finally joining their in person graduation ceremony was a massive milestone.
Kfar Chabad Wedding Hall Closed By Rov After “Events Bordering On Immodesty”
An uproar broke out Friday in Kfar Chabad after the town’s rabbi, Rabbi Meir Ashkenazi, ordered the closure of local wedding halls until further notice.
Long Distance Honor
The Rebbe advised that Simcha ask his father to come for a private audience. Max agreed. During the audience, the Rebbe asked him directly whether he would allow his son to continue his studies in Montreal.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Mrs. Esther Serebryanski, The 1st Editor of Di Yiddishe Heim
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Weekly Story: Am I a Schneerorski?
This week I am posting some of the thoughts which I mentioned at a Yud Beis Tammuz farbrengen in Toms River, New Jersey. As always, your comments and feedback are greatly appreciated and welcomed.
JLI: How I’m Raising a Hasidic Family in Rural Texas
Through a series of real-life stories (including raising triplets on a college campus) and fundamental texts, explore the potential in every day, even when it seems like things aren’t going the way we thought they would.
The prison and environs in winter. Guards are allowed to shoot an escaping prisoner after he has crossed the middle wooden fence.
Weekly Dvar Torah: The Day a Soul Broke an Empire – the Triumph of Jewish Pride
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman looks at the soul of a Rebbe, taking inspiration from an interrogation done in Soviet Russia in 1930.
Four-Part Series “Montana Chai” Celebrates Eighteen Years With Eye On Future
Chavie and Rabbi Chaim Bruk kicked off the celebration of their eighteen years of Shlichus with, “Montana Chai,” a four part video series, produced by the talented Bentzi Avtzon and Yuvla Media, that tells the story of Chabad Lubavitch of Montana through four individuals and families that have become a part of our special community.
The five bar mitzvah boys walk into their celebration in Ashkelon, Israel.
Five Ukrainian Evacuees Celebrate Bar Mitzvah in Israel After Wartime Escape
Five Ukrainian evacuees from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, celebrated a joint bar mitzvah in the Israeli city of Ashkelon last month—a milestone marking not just their coming of age, but their journey from war-torn Ukraine to safety in Israel.
Yud Beis-Yud Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen Held In Paris
A Farbrengen on the occasion of the 12th and 13th of Tammuz, celebrating the Liberation of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneerson, was held at Chabad of Flanders and led by Rabbi Mendy Azimov, the Rebbe’s Shaliach in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Here’s My Story: Escaping The Heat and Discovering the Warmth
Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Telsner served as a Chabad emissary in London for 33 years, working in the field of adult education and as rabbi of the Finchley Central Synagogue. In 2007, he moved to Melbourne, Australia, where he serves as the community dayan. He was interviewed in June 2014.
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