On Monday evening in Kfar Chabad, a car with several frum passengers narrowly avoided a collision with an oncoming train, after the vehicle broke down while crossing a railroad intersection just as the gates were coming down.
This Motzei Shabbos, February 20, Jewish music superstars Mordechai Ben David and Benny Friedman will perform at the annual Keren Simchas Choson V’Kallah Chinese Auction, which will be held at the Oholei Torah Ballroom beginning at 8:15pm.
A video has been going viral on social media since this morning, in which a Korean War veteran describes a Yechidus he had with the Rebbe before he went off to fight. In that Yechidus the Rebbe told young Bernie Cytryn that he will survive the war; ‘bullets will fly, but they will not touch you,’ the Rebbe said.
Last week, Rabbi Ephraim Z. Buchwald, Director of NJOP, made a big announcement about running for President on the Shabbat Party. For President’s Day, Rabbi Buchwald took to the streets of New York City to campaign with a taste of Shabbat and share his excitement about Shabbat Across America, coming on March 4, 2016. The video was produced by filmmaker Mendy Pellin.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Tetzaveh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Should we have compassion for sinners?
The greatest empires have been wiped off the map of history. How have the Jews survived? Mark Twain ponders this question in his essay Concerning the Jews. Rabbi Yosef Y. Jacobson answers by finding the one common denominator that has existed for over 3300 years of Jewish history.
Lubavitcher Yossi Berkowitz dances with Breslov Chasidim operating a ‘Simcha Mobile’ at mile 7.5 of the Miami Half-Marathon. Yossi says the dance moves were taught to him by his cousin, Rabbi Yitzi Horowitz, who is battling ALS and for whose sake he was running.
Six people were killed when an Egged bus, line 402, traveling from Jerusalem to Bnei Brak crashed into a truck parked on the side of Highway 1 on Sunday evening.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 103, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Female Judges in the Essay Contest; Self-Esteem; Lying; Criticizing Children Constructively; Reward and Punishment; Pleasure from Other’s Misfortunes.
The month of Adar is characterized with the spirit of joy, as the Talmud relates that “when Adar comes we increase in happiness.” Rabbi Yitzchak Shochet, Rabbi of London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, shares insight into how happiness is ultimately a choice, and when one chooses to be happy, all obstacles and challenges can be overcome.
Last night, Rena Finder, one of the roughly 1,200 survivors rescued by Oskar Schindler, told her story to more than 400 people gathered at Chabad of Naples, FL.
A day after the shocking stabbing of a young Hasidic man in Crown Heights, elected officials gathered for a press conference and denounced the horrific and random attack.
We’re all familiar with the story of when the Ba’al Shem Tov asked Moshiach when he would come. Moshiach replied that the Geulah would be ushered in when the wellsprings of Chassidus were spread to the wider world.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Terumah. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah dedicate so much content towards the building of the Tabernacle in the desert? It was a temporary structure that we will never again need physically, so why so much mention?
Speaking at a press conference in Crown Heights, the mother of the stabbing victim, Mrs. Rivkah Brikman, called on police to apprehend the attacker and thanked G-d that her son was not killed.
24 years ago, on the 2nd of Adar Aleph, Mrs. Pesha Leah Lapine, HYD, was murdered al kiddush hashem. The horrific killing shocked the community, and the Rebbe took it very personally – attending her Levaya with pain visible on his face. A gallery of photos from that Levaya was acquired and restored by JEM, and can be viewed in the extended article – along with the translated diary of an Israeli Bochur who transcribed his firsthand account of the events of that fateful day.
A knife covered in dried blood was located Thursday morning and turned over to the police by Shomrim. The six-inch serrated blade is believed to be the one used in the unprovoked attack on a Crown Heights Jewish man Wednesday afternoon. Police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.
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