After two wildly successful years of JewQ competitions in North America and Europe, the program is launching in Australia, where close to 200 children from nine Chabad Hebrew Schools are uniting for their first Torah championship.
In preparation for Tisha B’av, a free, printable paper model of the Beis HaMikdosh, that kids can assemble, is being made available by Tzivos Hashem Traditional Crafts Workshops.
Boruch Hashem, due to the overwhelmingly positive response and demands, the new campaign for learning about the בית המקדש has expanded to include a track for girls.
New York State has launched a COVID Rent Relief Program that will provide eligible households with a one-time rental subsidy that will be sent directly to the household’s landlord. Applicants will not need to repay this assistance.
A lecture on the kosher status of lab grown meat took place at last year’s annual National Jewish Retreat in Washington, D.C. It was given by Rabbi Ari Sollish, a noted author and lecturer, and the founder and director of the Intown Jewish Academy in Atlanta, GA.
Rabbi Sholom (Sidney) Hecht, the youngest brother of the famed Hecht family, passed away Tuesday, the 22nd of Tammuz, 5780.
After fifteen weeks spent away in the hospital fighting, then healing from the COVID-19 virus, Crown Heights resident Yeruchem Katz has come home.
Detectives are looking for two men who beat down a 44-year-old man with a cane and an iron chain at a Crown Heights parking lot in a violent assault caught on camera.
The topics in this week’s 317th episode of the highly acclaimed MyLife: Chassidus Applied series, with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, will include: What Should I Say to a Neighbor Pressuring Me to Put up a BLM Sign on My Front Lawn? What Are the Two Secrets to Growing Through Challenges? Chassidus Applied to the Three Weeks and Matos-Massei; What Can We Do When We Find Ourselves in Dire Straits? Should We Be Praying Also for Non-Jews During This Pandemic? Why Are There Such Brutal Punishments in the Torah? in Light of Pinchas’s Zealotry, How Do We Look at Antinomianism?
Close to 200 Bochurim excelled in the Vaad Hatmimim’s Gimmel Tamuz Mivtza Hanachos, and have won prizes in Kehos. The three top winners, whose Hanachos were judged the best by Rabbi Simon Jacobson, are entitled to 114 Seforim of Toras Menachem.
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.
Rabbi Zvi Hershcovich, a Chabad Shliach in NDG, Canada who also performs standup comedy as Cholentface, has been producing weekly Parsha and comedy videos in order to teach his community about the Torah portion. Pinchas 2020: “Help me find a missed connection!”
If the NYC’s Police motto may be “If you See Something, Say Something,” then the criminals motto must be “If You See Something, Try the Door Handle When No One Is Looking.” This unsuspicious looking man saw something in a car window on Kingston Ave on Wednesday, and loitered around until no one was looking, when he tied the door handle and riffled around the car.
Reminiscent of New York City Mayor Bill De Blasio’s bungling of COVID social distancing enforcement, the police in Israel have again become famous after multiple videos surface showing targeted enforcement on Charedim.
It’s a dynamic duo! One cigarette smoking thief and a female “lookout” accomplice, took a swipe at a package on the porch of a President Street home Monday afternoon, making off with his illicitly acquired goody.
The Israeli Defense Ministry and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) on Monday successfully launched a Shavit space deployment vehicle carrying Israel’s latest surveillance satellite, the Ofek 16.
An initiative was launched for bochurim to learn ענייני בית הבחירה in depth according to the Rebbe’s interpretations. A website link provides Interactive daily learning with audio, video Shiurim as well as a printable booklet with linear translation.
