A spectacular event this Tuesday night, Chai Elul, has been planned for women of Crown Heights at the JCM. The event is being produced by the Crown Heights based Jewish Women Influencers, and their goal is to inspire women in areas of “Purely Family”; Marriage, Chinuch, Parenting, Taharas Hamishpacha, and more.
Each time the Rebbe distributed dollars, individuals were touched and lives were impacted. Presented here are photos of several highlights and encounters from Sunday Dollars of 15 Elul 1991 (5751).
The Jewish Community Relations Council of New York (JCRC-NY), and a coalition of diverse community leaders in partnership with Brooklyn Children’s Museum and Jewish Children’s Museum, present the 4th annual #OneCrownHeights Neighborhood Festival, Sunday, September 15, 2019 at Brower Park, Park Place between Brooklyn and Kingston Avenues, from 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
With intermarriage rates worldwide at close to 50%, Rabbi Shlomo Levy makes no secret of his intentions when planning his annual “Peguisha” weekend for college students and young professionals in Buenos Aires. “We want them to meet other single Jews,” he says simply.
We present a photo gallery of highlights from Prague with photographer Mordehai Lubecki.
With the approach of Chai Elul, the thirty-ninth issue of “Heichal Habaal Shem Tov” has arrived from print, overflowing with in-depth reviews, fascinating articles, shocking discoveries and profound discussions, by the best writers and researchers of the Chassidic world.
Heritage Quest, CTeen’s annual trip through Poland and Israel, recently concluded its fourth year. 90 teens traveled back in time through Jewish history in Poland, and continued with visiting and experiencing Jewish life in Israel. The teens learned about their heritage and their role in the Jewish future at the source.
Chabad of Flagstaff Arizona, hosted a celebration for the opening of their new $7 Million Dollar Chabad center on Sept. 5th. The 12,500-square-foot structure that sits on 2.2 acres of land, consists of a synagogue, social hall, kosher kitchen, mikvah, classrooms, offices and guest lodgings.
18 years after the tragedy that occurred on September 11th 2001, we present a gallery of rare, and never before seen photos from that terrible day, as well as the days immediately following.
As Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz and his family prepared to head back to California, they held a kumzitz at a family members home in Crown Heights that lasted well into the night. Rabbi Yitzi flew home Wednesday morning.
The state of California has taken what lawmakers and religious-rights activists around the nation are calling an enormous step forward in ensuring that Jewish residents are able to practice their faith freely with the governor signing into law a bill that protects their right to place a mezuzah on their doorposts.
Amid the chaos and panic following the airliners slamming into the two World Trade Center towers on September 11, 2001, many men and woman answered a higher calling – instead of running away, they turned and ran towards the burning buildings in desperate attempts to rescue those trapped in the burning inferno. Among those brave men was a band of Shomrim volunteers from Crown Heights.
18 years after the tragedy that occurred on September 11th 2001, we present a gallery of rare, and never before seen photos from that terrible day, as well as the days immediately following.
18 years after the tragedy that occurred on September 11th 2001, we present a gallery of rare, and never before seen photos from that terrible day, as well as the days immediately following.
When Rabbi Leivi Sudak’s flight from London to New York was diverted to a small town in Newfoundland, Canada, he recalled the holy Baal Shem Tov’s teaching that wherever you go, you are led by Divine providence.
In recent years, a custom has become prevalent among Anash: The study of the kvius – a year of Sichos and Maamarim that coincides with the set-up of this year’s calendar. The Rebbe’s Farbrengens often open with an explanation of the parshah, date of the month, and also the connection between the two, and therefore, those farbrengens have a special relevance when the kvius recurs. In honor of the new upcoming year, 5780, two new Seforim of this year’s kvius have been published.
After responding for years to life saving emergency calls in the community, one of Crown Heights Hatzalah’s ambulances received a much needed remounting. The remounting included overhauling the old ambulance rear, and placed it on a brand new Ford chassis.
