Photos: Selichos in ‘the Rebbe’s Shul’ in Paris
Hundreds gathered at midnight Motzei Shabbos to recite Selichos at the 17 Rue des Rosiers Synagogue in the Pletzel, Paris’ Jewish Quarter, where the Rebbe prayed during his residence in the city.
8:00pm: Why Are Baalei Teshuva Mistreated?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 180, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: I’m Burned Out: What Can I Do to Experience an Inspiring Rosh Hashana? How to React to the Gender Identity Crisis? Why Are We Afraid of an Ayin Hora During Pregnancy? Why Are Baalei Teshuva Mistreated?
Now Live: MBD’s Stars at Misaskim Fundraiser
Starting at 8:00pm, Misaskim is hosting a four-hour live culmination of its 60-hour effort to raise $500,000, featuring Rabbi Yoel Gold, Rabbi Dovid Goldwasser, Yisroel Lamm, Rabbi Eli Mansour, Mordechai Ben David, and the Honorable Simcha Felder.
Video: Making Our New Year Resolutions Stick
The High Holidays are an inspirational time of year. It’s a time where we try to be a little better, and maybe think about things we can do to step up our game in various areas of life. Rabbi Pinchas Taylor explains an effective way to make a practical resolution that will actually stick.
Florida: 6 Dead After Nursing Home Loses Power
Six people died in a Hollywood, Florida, nursing home that had no air conditioning after Hurricane Irma knocked out power.
Fire on 14th Floor of Ebbets Field Apartments Injures 2
Two people were injured after a fire broke out on the 14th floor of the landmark Crown Heights high-rise apartment complex known as the Ebbets Field Apartments early Tuesday morning.
Weekly JLI Video: Without Words
JLI presents its unique one-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Rosh Hoshana is titled: Without Words.
Music Video: ‘Tate Oy Tatenyu’
Jewish music star Shlomo Simcha sings a new tune to Avinu Malkeinu, titled “Tate Oy Tatenyu,” composed by R’ Pinchas Wolf, a 71-year-old Detroit native. The sing was also made available for free download.
Video: How to Be Guaranteed a Good Judgement
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Nitzavim-Vayelech. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we be guaranteed great judgement on Rosh Hashana?
Music Video: Refaeinu Hashem
Ariel Zilber is a musician, singer, and a composer. He is one of the founding members of the Tammuz band, which is one of the pioneers in Groove and Israeli Rock, and has its name on a long list of hits that in a short amount of time turned into classics in the Israeli population.
Video: Miracles and Fate on Floor 78
On September 11th, 2001, Ari Schonbrun went to his office at Cantor Fitzgerald – the Wall Street firm that occupied the top five floors of Tower One – and he happened to be on the 78th floor changing elevators when the first plane hit. In the midst of the smoke and chaos, Ari found a fellow employee who was terribly burned and who needed his help to walk her down 78 flights of stairs.
Video: Irma Flooding at Chabad of Downtown Miami
This video depicting severe flooding was filmed right outside Chabad of Brickell / Downtown Miami. The flooding is the result of storm surge from Hurricane Irma coinciding with high tide in Biscayne Bay.
8:00pm: What to Make of All the Recent Natural Disasters
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 179, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Are We to Make of All the Recent Natural Disasters? How Do You Explain Foul Language Use by Prominent Chassidim? What Should Be Our Attitude to Reading Non-Jewish Books? What Approach Should We Take Regarding Our Children Watching Videos?
Video: Answering the Cry
Judaism celebrates life. Joy. Family. But what happens when tragedy strikes? Misaskim answers the cry.
JEM Restores Film of Historic 1980 Farbrengen
After much work, JEM has announced the release of the fully restored video of the Farbrengen of Erev Rosh Hashanah, 5741 (1980).
Video: What is the Soul?… in 2 Minutes
What is the soul? Consider your reflection in the mirror. The current image of yourself is different than your fifteen-year-old self. Which one is the REAL you? You also feel and think very differently at the moment than you did when you were fifteen or five, and will likewise feel and think differently when you are eighty or ninety. So the human being is perpetually changing—physically, emotionally, intellectually—which begs the question, “Where is the real you?” Rabbi Pinchas Taylor gives a clear and logical way of explaining the soul.
Video Playlist: The Birthday of Chassidus
Chai Elul marks the birthday of the two “Great Luminaries” of the Chassidic Movement: the Baal Shem Tov and the Alter Rebbe. Courtesy of JEM, we present a beautiful playlist of videos connected to this day.
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