Over 3,000 Rabbis from around the world came together and took a group photo as part of the International Conference of Shluchim this past weekend. The photo broke the record for the most rabbis ever pictured together. Filmmaker and comedian Meir Kalmanson takes us on a behind-the-scenes tour of the event.
With Donald Trump set to enter the White House in January, American Jews should adopt a “constructive and collaborative” approach in the fight against antisemitism, editor-in-chief of The Algemeiner Dovid Efune said in an interview with the Jewish Broadcasting Service this week.
Over 5,000 Shluchim and their guests will convene at the Brooklyn Cruise Terminal, one of the largest shipping terminals in New York City, for the Grand Gala Banquet that will conclude the annual International Conference of Chabad Emissaries. CrownHeights.info will be streaming live video of the event, which will begin at 6:00pm.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 139, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What’s Wrong with a Handshake? Is There a Remedy to Resignation? Are Cartoons OK for Kids? What is the History of the Kinus HaShluchim? Is Anxiety Really a Cry from the Soul? Why Do We Condemn Religious Killing if Torah Commands Us to Do the Same?
An individual who conned many innocent Orthodox Jews was busted by one gutsy Orthodox-Jewish victim of his.
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 Chayei Sarah is titled: The Gift of Life.
It’s been two years since Benny Friedman released his last album, Kol Haneshama Sheli, and the time has come for something brand new. That something is Fill The World With Light, Benny’s 4th studio album.
Thanksgiving celebrations are a time-honored tradition in American life. But beyond lavish feasts and a day off from work, Thanksgiving captures one of the core values of America and the foundation for a great country.
Out-of-control wildfires set intentionally by Palestinian terrorists have burned across Israel since Tuesday and continue to rage, with new areas threatened by flames as other blazes have come under control.
This video, produced by Tzivos Hashem and filmed in Crown Heights, follows the quest of a young school boy as he searches for ‘oiz’ – power, and learns an important lesson on how it’s achieved, while collecting cards of the mightiest armies in the world.
On ‘The Jewish View,’ a cable TV talk show, Rabbi Nachman Simon, Chabad Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, along with co-host Marc Gronich, interviewed Rabbi Hanoch Hecht, Director of Chabad of Dutchess County, who is also known as the Six-Minute Rabbi.
JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project released an unedited clip of an interview that they conducted with the late Reb Ben Zion Shenker, OBM, in his home in Brooklyn, in April of 2010.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chayei Sarah. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one live forever?
This video by Torah Cafe is a unique opportunity to glimpse behind the scenes and meet with one of Chabad’s most influential thinkers. For the past thirty-five years, Rabbi Elimelech Zweibel, OBM, was the teacher and spiritual mentor of a generation of Chabad Rabbis, at the Rabbinical College of America in Morristown, NJ. He was a major contributor to this generation’s leading works on chassidic philosophy.
President of Israel Reuven Rivlin attended a memorial event on Monday evening at the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, marking eight years since the devastating 2008 terrorist attacks that killed the center’s founders and directors, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries Rabbi Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg; four of their guests; and another 158 people throughout the city.
Crown Heights resident Shimon Brod, a Professional Pianist, just released his debut Piano Cover of ‘Earth Song’, a song about the planet and our impact on it as human beings. “I was inspired to record the song following the 2016 presidential elections, and the social divide that it caused,” he told CrownHeights.info.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 138, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What is the Yardstick of Success? What Did the Rebbe Say About Thanksgiving? Can We Refine Today’s Progressive Left? Is it Acceptable to Be into Fashion? Is Moach Shalet Al Halev Compatible with a Mental Disorder? Moshiach Doesn’t Excite My Child!
