A video of two ‘summer activities’ filmed at two separate Satmar day camps in New York has been making waves on social media. The video shows young campers marching against Israel, and others pelting a car meant to mimic the one driven by the Israeli Prime Minister with eggs.
While the modern legal system has prisons at the core of its establishment, the Torah never features prison as a form of punishment, even as a deterrent. This, because the idea of locking someone up is antithetical to the nature of humanity. According to the Torah, a person was put on this earth for a purpose. Withholding one’s ability to achieve that purpose is the most inhumane treatment they can possibly suffer.
The Talmud states: “Never were there more joyous days for the Jewish People than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur,” listing five or six joyous events that occurred on 15 Av throughout history. But what is it about the energy of the 15th of Av that attracts so much joy?
A pair of violent muggers went on a robbery spree on Sunday night in Crown Heights, committing a string of five robberies (up from the initially reported three) in the span of a few hours. This morning, police announced charges against one of them.
Carmel Cato, whose son Gavin died after he was hit by a Chasidic Jewish driver in August of 1991, and Professor Norman Rosenbaum, whose brother was murdered in the riots that ensued, have reunited ahead of the 25th anniversary of the Crown Heights Riots to denounce violence of all forms and to discuss healing between the two communities.
On his way to vacation in Switzerland, the Rebbe of Vizhnitz visited the Great Synagogue of Frankfurt, Germany, which is home to a Chabad Yeshiva, led by Rabbi Yerachmiel Havlin.
The campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-NY had an inspiring and fun-filled sixth week of camp, the highlights of which were captured in this video.
The frightening moment a Yeshiva student was robbed at knifepoint by two perpetrators on Albany Ave. and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights Sunday night was vividly caught on surveillance video, which was obtained by CrownHeights.info.
Communists forbade them to study Torah and now their children are teaching Torah to a new generation.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Va’eschanan. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one find comfort in the destruction of the Beis Hamikdosh?
“Yesterday, Tisha B’av, I was sitting on the floor reading about the horrors and suffering of our nation. It’s been so many years crying so many tears,” writes Jewish music star Yaakov Shweky.
Where were these dignitaries in the war, when Jewish families were being annihilated? 220 boys in an orphanage are on strike. They refuse to acknowledge the benefactors and dignitaries on stage, until a survivor like themselves comes on stage and can’t even speak through his tears.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 127, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can Women Understand Chassidus Like Men? Are We Supposed to Love Criminals? Is Lashon Hara Really Like Murder? What Do We Learn from a Tisha B’Av Nidche? What Feasible Measures Can Parents Take to Prevent Child Abuse?
Watch this fascinating and inspiring Shiur on Tisha B’av by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
It was diverse crowd of more than 50 people of all faiths and ethnicities who braved stifling heat and suffocating humidity on the steps of the Rockland County Courthouse to denounce a hate crime committed this week against two area Chabad rabbis.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Devarim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one be the greatest optimist?
The “Tzitzis Man Challenge,” a riff off the popular “Dancing Man Challenge,” is sweeping across Gan Israel camps across North America, in which the boys proudly wear their Tzitzis while performing a unique dance and then challenge the boys of another camp to follow.
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