Rabbi Preps for ‘Leap Second’ with Timely Message
On Tuesday, June 30, 2015, the day will officially be a bit longer than usual – because an extra second, or “leap” second, will be added.
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8:00pm: The Challenges and the Opportunities of Vacation; Contemporary Lessons from 12 Tammuz; Reward and Punishment
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 73, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special summer edition, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: The Challenges and the Opportunities of Vacation; Contemporary Lessons from 12 Tammuz; Reward and Punishment.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Never Too Young
The education the previous Rebbe received from a young age increased his desire to help others, and even as a child, he was prepared to pay a high price for his ideals, as the story of his first imprisonment relates.
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Story: The Rebbe Rayatz and His Jewish Interrogators
In honor of Yud Bais/Yud Gimmel Tammuz – the birthday and day of liberation of the Frierdiker Rebbe, we share the now well-known story of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s interrogation by the GPU in 1921.
PSA: Beware of Israeli Produce when Shopping
A CrownHeights.info reader sent us this photo of a bag of carrots he was about to purchase in a Shop-rite supermarket located upstate. They label states that they come from Israel, which bears serious Halachic complications as this is a Shmittah year, and all fruits and vegetables grown in the Holy Land must bear a reliable Hechsher asserting that all laws of Shmittah have been kept.
Here’s My Story: He Cared About Our Family
Rabbi Leibel Bistritzky was the proprietor of a kosher food store on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, and an early pioneer of the medical emergency volunteer response organization Hatzalah. He passed away in 2013 at age 86. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project once in 2005 and again in 2006.
Video: Seeing the Good in Everything
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chukas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we see the good in everything?
8:00pm: New Details About the 1949 Recording; Discrimination in the Religious Community; Mid-Life Crisis
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 72, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: New Details about the 1949 Recording; Discrimination in the Religious Community; Mid-Life Crisis.
Set of Unique Photos of the Rebbe’s Farbrengens
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a set of photos from several photographers of the Rebbe’s Farbrengens in the 1980s.
Here’s My Story: A Needle In A Haystack
Rabbi Pinchas Woolstone, served as rabbi of the Jewish House Crisis Center in Sydney, Australia, for over twenty years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, New York, in December of 2013.
Video: A Balanced Spiritual Life
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Korach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is a balanced spiritual life?
8:00pm: Gimmel Tammuz: Inspiring a New Generation
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 71, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics – Gimmel Tammuz: Inspiring a New Generation. Also – Dating Advice and Lashon Hara.
Video: Behind the Scenes of the Children’s Sefer Torah
In this newly discovered footage, released by JEM, watch the Rebbe launch the campaign for every child to have a letter in a Sefer Torah. The Rebbe outlines the details of his new initiative, suggesting how and where they should be carried out.
Getting Ready for Gimmel Tammuz with JNet
In honor of Gimmel Tammuz, Anash and all Jews worldwide are invited to participate in a learning campaign, with a chance to win great prizes.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe as he leaves a Farbrengen in 1987.
Here’s My Story: “Sing a Niggun!”
Rabbi Ben Zion Shenker is a world-renowned composer of Jewish music with more than 400 melodies to his credit. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Brooklyn in April of 2010.
Video: Should One Rely 100% on G-d?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Shelach. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Are we supposed to rely 100% on G-d?
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