This past Monday, Friendship Circle of Brooklyn hosted a night of fun for the entire family. Partnering with Sauce and Cheese, Friendship Circle arranged the delivery and pickup of 65 pies of pizza and created a fun, interactive family-friendly program.
Camp Chomesh has announced that its plans to open for the 2020 summer have been approved, marking it the first Lubavitch camp to have firm plans for opening. New York State camps remain in limbo.
Everyone is invited to take part in a Chassidishe Farbrengen marking the Shloshim of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner OBM. The Shloshim event will be streamed live here on CrownHeights.info.
This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Jewish communities across the former Soviet Union are coming up with new, creative and original ideas for Lag B’Omer so that families can celebrate from the comfort of their own homes.
In honor of twenty six years since Gimmel Tammuz, a weekly Sunday learning program will launch over the zoom platform. The shiur will start this coming Sunday, the 10th of May, and will continue for seven weeks.
Rabbi Yossi Turk, Shliach in Cordoba, Argentina, tells of another less known chapter of the life of his father in law, Rabbi Ahron Yaakov Schwei OBM.
With Lag B’Omer around the corner, and the much anticipated Hatzalah-Thon LIVE event, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice Chairman of Merkos L’Inyonei Chinuch, has a message for the residents of Crown Heights and Shluchim around the world. Come join the Hatzalah-Thon, and show your appreciation for Hatzalah by donating generously.
Author and Chabad historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, shares his memories and experiences of Rabbi Yehuda Leib Groner OBM. Rabbi Groner was a Mazkir of the Rebbe, and was zoiche to have many unique experiences with the Rebbe. He passed away on the 14th of Nissan, 5780, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The community is invited to a chassidisher farbrengen on the occasion of the shloshim of Rabbi Sholom Eidelman OBM on Thursday, the 13th of Iyar, May 7th, at 1:30pm Eastern Time.
The Crown Heights Jewish community was in the middle of celebrating the strangest Passover in its history. Schools had long been locked, synagogues were shuttered and Seders had no guests. Yet the community shone bright with countless acts of caring, kindness and love. Much credit for helping to create that sense of community, say friends and family, goes to Mendel Drizin, who passed away on the third day of Passover, April 13, after battling the coronavirus. He was 83 years old.
Following the success of two pilot programs launched leading up to Yud Shevat – 70 Years, community organizers decided to continue the inspiration with a special program in honor of Lag B’Omer.
The catastrophic effects of Covid-19 are plastered across the papers, TV, and your social media feed: Healthcare systems overwhelmed, economies upended, and entire societies in shock. But to fully grasp the spiritual implications of this crisis – and what it means for the Jewish people – we need to take a much broader historical view – back through a two-thousand year diaspora, ancient Temple times, all the way to the Exodus.
Tonight at 7:30pm, an online lecture entitled “Pesach Sheni – Second Chances” will be presented by Rabbi Sholom Lipskar, Spiritual Leader of the Shul, Bal Harbour, Florida and founder of the Aleph Institute.
It was a couple of days before the annual NYC Half Marathon and the Friendship Circle’s Team Friendship was ready to run. With a large cohort of runners joining the run to raise money for the international organization, the event was set to be a highlight for many. And that’s when CoronaVirus forced everything to a grinding halt, Team Friendship went virtual.
Scenes of families crowding carnival lawns, jumping merrymakers dancing around bonfires, and large outdoor Jewish concerts are the usual fare for the joyous and deeply spiritual holiday of Lag BaOmer that kicks off the summer season for the Jewish community. This year, Lag BaOmer celebrations have taken an inventive turn due to COVID-19.
The third class in mikvah.org’s learning from home series, tonight’s class features Mrs. Esther Vilenkin discussing “Haircovering: The Background and Reasons Highlighting the Rebbe’s approach.”
In a letter to the community, the Beis Din of Budapest, and Head Shliach Rabbi Baruch Oberlander, forbade shuls and Chabad Houses from opening, despite government permission to do so.
