On Monday, a video uploaded to YouTube by Prager University titled Born to Hate Jews was labeled “hate speech” and removed from the site. After facing social media backlash, YouTube reinstated the video late Monday night, but it remains tagged as “restricted content.”
The legendary Brigadier General Ran Ronen-Pecker, one of Israel’s most decorated “ace” fighter pilots, passed away on Shabbos at the age of 80 after a long illness.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: To what extent must you go to keep your word?
Hundreds of outraged Flatbush residents rallied on Sunday to “Save Ocean Parkway,” after plans were unveiled by the NYC Dept. of Transportation to eliminate right and left turns off the main roadway, requiring cars to exit onto the service lane a block beforehand if they wish to make a turn.
As the summer heat bears down on Australia, a small group of Chabad Bochurim are canvassing RARA (Regional and Rural Australia) in a Mitzvah Mobile, searching for Jewish souls and bringing them the light of Chanukah. Just two weeks into their journey, these ‘roving rabbis’ have already touched hundreds of Jewish souls.
The singing puppets known as the ‘Bube Myses’ took over a Chabad Tefilin stand in Israel for their latest music video – ‘Wrap Tefilin.’
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 140, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do We Need to Be Politically Correct and Avoid Controversial Issues? Should We Take Dreams Seriously? What Defines a Mashpia? How Can We Disagree Civilly? Why is Prayer the Primary Service in Our Times? How Are Today’s Religious Hostilities Preparing Us for Moshiach?
This week’s Living Torah program begins with a Sicha about a question that the Previous Rebbe asked by his own Bar-Mitzvah. And ending with a touching story about the Rebbe’s lesson to a young Bar-Mitzvah boy, the program is themed all around Bar-Mitzvahs. In this clip, a beautiful collage showing boys of Bar Mitzvah age visiting the Rebbe before their special day.
Police and firefighters rushed to Kfar Chabad this morning after cars were trapped on roads subject to massive floods. In a dramatic scene caught on video, 8 persons were extricated from the flooding, four of them children.
By the rivers of Malibu; there we sat (and) also wept; when we remembered Zion. Not the exact quote of King David, but the perfect modern-day premise for this music film, produced by filmmaker and comedian Mendy Pellin.
Rabbi Avi Richler, director of Chabad of Gloucester County, NJ, appeared on the television program The Road to Recovery, hosted by activist Michael DeLeon, to express his approach to drug addiction and recovery.
JLI recently launched a new weekly video series: each week a unique one-minute video is released featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. This week’s video for Parshas Toldos is titled: Go Out on a Limb.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, and star of the hilarious weekly Parsha videos, returns to the screen to welcome the young Shluchim to the International Kinus Tze’irei Hashluchim Gala Banquet.
Rabbi Mendel Alperowitz, who was appointed as Shliach to South Dakota, the last U.S. state without a permanent Chabad presence, addressed the International Kinus Hashluchim Gala Banquet this past Sunday evening with an inspiring message.
Excerpts of JEM’s new film, Linked, debuted on Sunday evening at the International Conference of Chabad Emissaries. Featuring an interwoven montage of the Rebbe’s talks and personal experiences as recounted by his emissaries, it’s a film that inspires and demands of every Shliach, of every Jew.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Toldos. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How should you look at your fellow Jew?
When Indian Jewish Professor P. V. Viswanath was requested by Chabad Headquarters in New York to monitor the Indian media’s coverage of the 26/11/2008 terror attack while it was still underway, he didn’t imagine he would end up talking to a terrorist over the phone.
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