Crown Heights, Brooklyn — This morning at Lefferts Park, the Friendship circle came together to watch the Crown Heights Softball league. The players gave them autographs and had a special game with them.
Gallery of pictures in the Extended Article.
Miami Beach, FL – Bochurim who have been studying in the ‘Miami Smicha Program’ under Rabbi Yisroel Frankforter for the past year, were tested by Rabbi Yitzchak Yehudah Yeruslavski on the Halochos of Shabbos. The Bochurim displayed great knowledge and all passed the test.
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In his op-ed in Haaretz on June 1 (“God as surgeon”), Prof. Yehuda Bauer refers to the opinion of the late Lubavitcher Rebbe regarding the Holocaust.
Without responding to his unwarranted, unacademic, personal attacks against the Rebbe, I think that Bauer gravely misunderstood the nuances and delicate concepts that the Rebbe was conveying in his 1980 letter to Knesset member Chaika Grossman.
Stony Point, NY — A teacher and three 16-year-old Lubavitcher Yeshiva Mesivta (Ocean Pkwy) students wandered off a Bear Mountain climbing trail and had to be plucked from a 200-foot-high ledge by rappelling rescuers while hovering police helicopters lit the face of the cliff.
The climbers “felt they couldn’t go up safely and they couldn’t go down safely once they realized where they were,” Lt. David Herrick of the New York state park police said Friday. “Basically they froze and didn’t want to move.”
They were stuck on the rocky outcropping for more than five hours on Thursday night and early Friday.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Thursday, a new system has just been installed in 770 informing if there is a Choson in shul, so you would know if you have to say Tachnun or not.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Over 30 years ago through a directive of the Rebbe, Mivtzah Kashrus began heightening Kashrus awareness throughout the world. By koshering homes for those newly committed to keeping kosher this Mivtzah ensures that Kashrus observance is available to every Jew. Through “Kosher week” in supermarkets, informative pamphlets, video presentations and quarterly newsletters, Mivtza Kashrus reaches out to our brothers and sisters regardless of their level of observance, economic status or location.
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New York, NY — Every Sunday for the past 13 years, I have been visiting the Ohel of the Lubavitcher Rebbe in Cambria Heights, Queens.
One Thursday, recently, I was in the Chabad Lubavitch Mitzvah Tank on Broadway near 38th Street in Manhattan. It is a very warm and friendly place, where Jews from all over come to talk, pray, connect with their yiddishkeit and meet friends.
An Israeli woman came in and asked the rabbi in the Mitzvah Tank if he had any Shabbat candles. The rabbi thought for a moment and said, “I just gave out the last set of candles.”
Vineland, NJ — Students of the ‘Beis Medrash Menachem’ Semicha Institute of Morristown, New Jersey, headed by Rabbi Chaim Schapiro, took a trip to a slaughterhouse in Vineland, New Jersey.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Last week Thursday a special event took place for very special children. In the home of Rabbi Yaacov and Mrs Chana Pinson boys and girls gathered for some food and live musical entertainment and a magic show.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — After several years of extensive construction, Chabad rabbis the world over have a new address they can turn to for all things outreach-related: 816 Eastern Parkway, the home of the brand-new Shluchim Center.
In the spring of 1967, following close to a decade of relative calm, Israel found itself poised for war against four of its Arab neighbors. In a matter of six short days, a nation managed to utterly rout not one, but four powerful enemies and triple its size! The world called it a miracle, see here an interactive gallery of the great miracles that happened during the Six Day War:
Sao Paulo, Brazil — Sunday, Brazil history will be made, as the congress “Har Sinai” directed by Rabbi Ilan Ende the brother of the Rosh Yeshiva of the Chabad Yeshiva in Sao Paulo transformed the “McDonalds” branch in the heart of Sao Paulo into a Kosher restaurant for a day.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn – After being forced to shut down over a week ago, the Health Department gave Nosh World their approval to reopen for business since 3:00pm this past Friday.
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Crown Heights, Brooklyn — Crown Heights today celebrated a double Simcha, the completion and inauguration of two Sifrai Torah! The letters were filled in the home of Rabbi Don Yoel Levy after which the gather crowed danced through the streets of Crown Heights to the new Shul ‘Beis Eliezer Yitchok’ on Kingston Ave.
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The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
The following is a Blog post that has been brought to our attention and we thought it would be a good point to bring up to our readers here at CrownHeights.info. The following post was written by a Blog called ‘ChaBlog’, readers are welcome to share their thoughts on the matter.
Lubavitchers know how to argue. It’s just one of the things we’re good at. As politics rage around the world from Head Shluchim to High Schools, CrownHeights.info takes the cake. Don’t get the wrong idea; CrownHeights.info is a great news site. In just a few short years it grabbed Chabad viewers and now it’s more popular then the overrated Shmais. The content is usually good and it always has big bright pictures to go along with even the dullest articles.
My issue is not with the website, but the viewers. CrownHeights.info has a cool feature over the other chabad news sites by letting you post comments on anything. After observing these comments for a while it’s starting to get to me. On every news piece, picture, article, there is someone who has to write something stupid or senselessly negative and start an argument. Not just any arguments but heated ones where the commentators attack each other.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn –- Last night, the Jewish Children’s Museum hosted an innovative and exciting dinner in appreciation of the Friendship Circle at the Jewish Children’s Museum volunteers. Two New York TV reporters hosted the “Tomorrow Show“ celebrating the Friendship Circle’s mission of providing children with special needs with a brighter tomorrow. A take-off of the popular Today Show, the Tomorrow Show was full of moving ”news“ features, a hilarious ”weather report,” mock commercials and live musical accompaniment by Gershon Veroba and the Neshoma Orchestra.
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S. Monica, CA – Hundreds of Friends, Mekuravim, Supports and Family members escorted Rabbi Avrohom Levitansky OBM Shliach to S. Monica California. The Levaya passed a number of locations on its way to the ‘Bais HaChaim’ including Yeshivas Ohr Elchonon, Cheder Menachem and the Bais Chabad of Simcha Monica which R. Avrohom was the founder and director of.
More pictures in the Extended Article. (Photo Credit: Rabbi Arye D. Gordon)
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