A Lag Ba’omer bonfire and celebration took place for the 38th year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. There, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei have held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
Dovid Goldstein was 7 years old in 1981 when a bearded man entered his father’s store in McAllen, Texas, and changed his life forever. A “prodigy” of McAllen’s Temple Emanuel Sunday School, the boy was a world away from Chassidic Brooklyn, N.Y., where the Rebbe—Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson—led the Chabad-Lubavitch movement.
Hundreds of thousands of Jews will be in Meron Monday night and Tuesday to celebrate Lag Ba’Omer. The holiday marks the passing of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai (Rashbi). Join the Simcha through a live broadcast.
The Great Parade will be arriving soon, and the players, marchers, and band members are hard at work preparing. Watch as this group do a dress rehearsal for the exciting day.
Ethan Falkowitz OBM, a student at Roslyn Middle School, was running high after he and his friends won a Tennis match. As he and his friends were driven off to celebrate, a drunk driver going the wrong way created a tragedy, killing Falkowitz and his friend Drew Hassenbein.
The power of shabbos. For a Jew, the true path to success lies in living life according to Torah’s directives. Central among these is the observance of the day of rest.
Over 150 Jewish teens from throughout the Northeast United States gathered for an unforgettable weekend at the CTeen Regional Shabbaton held in Washington D.C. hosted by Rabbi Sender and Nechamie Geisinsky of Chabad of Bethesda, MD.
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.
Over 80 Shluchim from across Argentina gathered in the beautiful coastal town of Miramar, Argentina, where they spent two days learning and growing together. The event was filled with concrete discussions that addressed all areas of Shlichus life.
Watch this incredible video, courtesy of JEM, on the connection between the famous Piamenta brothers and the Rebbe.
As a student in yeshiva, Rabbi Yitzchok Meir Gurary received important guidance from the Rebbe. From Living Torah Volume 117 Program 466.
In honor of the Yartzeit of the Rebbe’s Brother, Reb Yisroel Aryeh Leib, Shluchim in the United Kingdom visited the Rebbe’s brother’s former home in Liverpool, and videoed for others to see.
Watch this film from JEM on the Rebbe’s view on despair in health and sickness.
Over 100 people joined a webinar produced by Upbeat on Stress relief, from a chassidus perspective. UpBeat is a Lubavitch organization focused on bringing Chassidus in a practical way to use in the real world.
Ahead of the celebrations this weekend, Chief Minister of the Birmingham Hebrew Congregation and community Rabbi Yossi and Rachel Jacobs were invited to Buckingham Palace for the coronation tea party on Wednesday 3rd May.
Watch this weeks Shazak Parsha Production, with its spellbinding audiovisual storytelling of the parsha and Shazak style animations.
The believed ringleader and person who threw the punches in the shocking attack on two Jewish boys in Crown Heights this March is finally seeing justice, as the NYPD says that they have arrested him.
