After fifteen years of volunteers publicizing the Shabbat candle lighting times in Moscow, it was decided to double the impact this year and extend the reach of these publications to as many Jews as possible. Thanks to the dedicated work of “Zman Yehudi” organization of Moscow, there is no need to guess the exact halachic times anymore, especially of Shabbat and Yom Tov.
Operation Survival: Watch as Operation Survival discusses how to help someone who’s being bullied with Dr. Rona Novick, PhD. Mrs Novick is the Dean of the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration at Yeshiva University and holds the Raine and Stanley Silverstein Chair in Professional Ethics and Values.
In what has become a customary stop for Israeli diplomats, Israel’s Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, visited the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens while on his trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly.
It is a short walk from the Central Synagogue in Bondi to the Harry Triguboff Centre but a feeling of pageantry as two freshly completed Sefer Torahs were paraded down Bon Accord St to their new home in Flood St in the shul built by Harry.
Men’s clothing store, Under 5’10, has recently brought their dapper styles to the streets of Crown Heights. With the average height of American men being 5’ 10, there are millions of people that fall just below that mark. Under 5’ 10 fills a gap in the market that large retailers have yet to, offering customers a wardrobe that doesn’t need tailoring and allows men to feel confident in their clothing.
Parents, teachers, and high schoolers turned out last night to learn about addiction and become trained in the use of Narcan. The event, organized by Chani Vogel and the Aleph Institute, in partnership with neshamos.org and Amudim, was the first of its kind in Crown Heights.
In a solidarity event coordinated by the Tablet Magazine, Jews from Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, and Poway will be coming together “to show solidarity with communities that have been attacked, blow the shofar as it is the month of Elul, and grab some (free!) apples and honey for the upcoming Rosh Hashanah.”
The Vaad Talmidei HaTmimim’s Hachnosas Orchim arm prepares for a record number of visitors spending Tishrei with the Rebbe, davening at the Ohel, and spending time in 770.
Just in time for Rosh Hashanah, you can bring home the monumental side-by-side translation of the Rebbe’s seminal work of Lekutei Sichos. The new set has six volumes, one for every Sefer in the Chumash plus one for Yomim Tovim, with the first volume, Bereishis, available online and in stores now.
The Levaya of Rabbi Shmarya Katzen obm took place Monday, and passed by 770. A large crowd gathered to pay their respects to a loved and dedicated melamed of Crown Heights.
In what has become an annual trip, a group from Moscow spent their 12th Shabbos Slichos by the Ohel of the Rebbe in the Cambria Heights section of Queens. Motzai Shabbos, the group traveled to Crown Heights, where they spent time at a farbrengen hosted at the home of Moshe Rubashkin. They went from there to the Rebbe’s home, where they said Slichos.
A fatal accident in Kiryas Joel took place Sunday evening when a car overturned into a drainage area. Multiple people were pulled from the submerged vehicle, with one person in Cardiac Arrest.
The Crown Heights community has been invited to join the Andrusier family, and the mespalelim of The Bais Binyomin Shul of Crown Heights, in welcoming a new Sefer Torah. The Sefer Torah was written in memory of R’ Leibel and Freida Andrusier, OBM.
As the large clock struck midnight in Moscow’s central Marina Roscha shul this past motzei Shabbos, the chazan’s loud voice could be heard as he emotionally began “Ashrei yoshvei veisecha”. The familiar and haunting melodies swept up the hundreds of worshipers in the solemn yet festive mood.
We present a gallery of photos from Motzei Shabbos Slichos in the week before Tishrei 5780, that took place at 17 Rue des Rosier in Paris.
We present a gallery of photos from Motzei Shabbos Slichos in the week before Tishrei 5780, that took place in the Rebbe’s room at 770 Eastern Parkway.
For close to 40 years, Rabbi Katzen faithfully runs a weekly Mesibas Shabbos in 770. This Shabbos, unfortunately, our beloved Rabbi Katzen is not in a position to run it. Rabbi Katzen was there for us and our children all these years. This Shabbos, it is our turn to be there for him.
