A Chosid in Williamsburg recently arrived in Shul one morning to find that his Tefilin had gone missing. Suspecting that they may have been stolen, he obtained the footage from the Shul’s surveillance camera, and was surprised to discover the culprit.
Living Chassidus, an organization aimed at creating a community for women in Crown Heights, completed the 60 Days challenge based on Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s 60 Days: The Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays, bringing the classic holiday companion to life in addition to inspiring themselves and building a new kind of community within Crown Heights. The initiative was so successful, they will be expanding it for the coming months.
Following the stunning election results, which saw the president-elect named as Donald J. Trump in a stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton, she will be delivering remarks in the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, which were called for 10:30am EST and are due to start any minute now, and can be watched live here on CrownHeights.info.
A lesser-known Chabad Niggun, ‘Hey Muzha,’ was performed at this year’s Simchas Beis Hashoeva by musicians Yossi Cohen and Yudi Simon, and has been gaining popularity ever since.
A massive youth seminar took place in Moscow this past Shabbos, gathering over 250 teenage activists of the EnerJew youth movement together for 5 days of inspiration and learning.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Lech Lecha. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one remain optimistic when going through challenges?
With the American elections tomorrow and much confusion about how to vote, it’s as important as ever to remember what our focus needs to be, both in our own lives as well as when electing political leaders. JEM presents an excerpt of a Sicha from 1981 in which the Rebbe discusses what to look for when voting in a new president.
“Prisoner of Zion” Yosef Mendelevich, who spent a decade in a Soviet prison for attempting to hijack an airliner and fly it to Israel, relates an amazing story about a special gift he received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe on the day he was released from the USSR.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 136, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Should We View the Elections? What Can Help Move Past Previous Bad Relationships? Are Video Games and Sports an Appropriate Outlet? Should I Remain Friendly With an Accused Abuser? What Exactly are Keilim?
Following his visit to 770 on Thursday, Israeli journalist and television personality Atilla Somfalvi interviewed several Crown Heights residents on whom they plan to vote for in the upcoming presidential election.
Ivanka Trump, the Jewish daughter of presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s gravesite in Queens tonight along with her husband Jared Kushner to pray on behalf of her father and her family. Around the same time as she was interceding on his behalf, the Secret Service rushed Mr. Trump off the stage of a rally in Reno, Nevada, after becoming aware of a threat to his life.
For the past 18 years, the Minkowicz family has served as a beacon of light to Jews living in the tranquil Atlanta suburbs of Alpharetta, Johns Creek and other nearby areas. It’s also now been more than two years now since Rashi Minkowicz—the wife of Rabbi Hirshy Minkowicz and a mother of eight—passed away suddenly at the age of 37.
In the 1980s, Ari Goldman was a reporter for The New York Times. In this week’s Living Torah, he recalls several encounters that he shared with the Rebbe, as well as an unexpected telephone call shortly after one particular visit.
This week, JLI launched a new educational project, the JLI Weekly. Each week a unique one-minute video will be released featuring a powerful and relevant message from the weekly Parsha. The first video presenting a theme from Parshas Noach can be viewed in the extended article.
Storytelling has long held a special place in the world of Chassidism. Some of the deepest, most personal and touching lessons can only be couched in the unassuming and amusing wrapper of a tale. Rabbi Yossy Gordon, executive vice president of the Chabad on Campus International, has been telling and writing Chassidic stories for decades.
In what could be the most historic baseball game in decades, a Lubavitcher Chosid, Rabbi Daniel Eleff of Dansdeals.com, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at game seven of the 2016 World Series in Cleveland, Ohio, with flying Tzitzis.
The NYPD’s Counterterrorism Unit has been called in to a Jewish girls’ high school in Brooklyn after an unidentified man was spotted taking pictures of the building’s exterior this morning.
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