LIVE CONCERT: Yaakov Shwekey Hosting Live Concert
LIVE NOW: Singer Yaakov Shwekey is hosting a live concert online for the wider Jewish community. The concert is for a Refuah Sheleima Stanley Chira Shalom ben Shahana, and for all those in need.
Video of the Day
The Bar Mitzvah celebration of Menachem Levi Pfeffer, like countless others was cancelled. A Bar Mitzvah Celebration with friends and family in a beautiful hall never came to fruition. So the family put together a movie in honor of all those that got them to this wonderful day.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Historic Wedding at Rebbe’s House
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Weekly Story: The Histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab
As today, (Friday), Beis Nissan is the centennial (100) year of the histalkus of the Rebbe Rashab, as well as the day the Frierdiker Rebbe became Rebbe, I am posting the chapter on his histalkus from my upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab. Presently, it is over 580 pages (and will be bezras Hashem approximately 625 pages).
Here’s My Story: An Angel With A Cushion
Rabbi Yossy Goldman has served as a Chabad emissary in Johannesburg, South Africa, since 1976. He is the senior rabbi at the city’s Sydenham Shul and president of the South African Rabbinical Association. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter Project in October of 2014.
Art: Recognizing Our Overflowing Blessings
Pop artist Yitzchok Moully has done it again, creating a masterpiece of art that resonates with the times. Join today, Thursday, as he makes this collaborative work VIA Facebook and Instagram Live.
“Why Am I Stuck At Home?”
An excerpt from a Shiur given by Rabbi Naftali Silberberg on Shaar Yichud V’Emunah tackles the question “Why Am I Stuck At Home During This Virus Outbreak?”
HasidX New Releases Two Singles
New Chabad Nigunim project, HasidX, just released their first two singles, “Tzoma Lecha Nafshi” and “Ki Anu Amecha”. HasidX features traditionally sung Chabad Nigunim over an EDM arrangement, fused with Mediterranean flavor.
Special Story: Everything Changed Nothing Changed
As we all are somewhat shocked at how everything somehow became upended so suddenly, this Shabbos as I was thinking about it, I remembered the following story as Rabbi Avraham Barnetzky related to me.
8:00pm: Coronavirus – Letter From Milan: How Can We Hold On?
The topics in this week’s 301st episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: Coronavirus: Letter From Milan: How Can We Hold On? Where Is G-d in All of This? Why Is It Happening These Days – the Most Joyous and Liberating Time of the Year? Who Do We Turn to Today for Answers? What Is Our Responsibility When a Plague Breaks Out? If We Follow All the Health Guidelines and Also Say Tehillim Are We Guaranteed Not to Get the Virus? How Do We Balance Caution and Positivity? How Did Our Leaders Respond to Epidemics in the Past? How Can Isolation Be Seen in a Positive Light?
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Corona Antidote, Virtue of Silence The Amshinover Rebbe
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Corona Antidote, Connect Above & You Won’t Fall Below
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time in a special episode due to the Coronavirus Pandemic sweeping our community. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Left: Reb Chaim Brisker. Right: The Rebbe Rashab.
Weekly Story: Helping the Jews in Uzbekistan and Georgia
My plan was to publish a booklet and give out in the shuls in Crown Heights another chapter excerpted from the upcoming biography on the Rebbe Rashab. However, being that for the time-being the shuls are not going to be opened this Shabbos, I decided to post it, so this way at the Shabbos Mevorchim farbrengen that will be taking place in everyone’s house, you will have something to discuss about the Rebbe Rashab, whose 100th yahrzeit is this coming Friday, Beis Nissan.
Here’s My Story: Rolling Out the Persian Carpet
Mr. Moshe Chayempour is an author who resides in Los Angeles, where he was interviewed in September of 2011.
I Couldn’t Daven With A Minyan, A Story From Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon
Obviously, it is a bitter pill not being able to daven with a minyan, but as is noted in the attached story, taken from my book “The Brothers of Slavita” we should recognize that this is also ratzon Hashem.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – 770 Never Ends…
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time in a special episode following the historic closing of 770. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Purim Maamar in Moscow in 1927 With KGB Agents All Around
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
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