In this latest video by Jew in the City, See what happens when actual Hasidic Jews watch scenes from “Fiddler on the Roof” for the first time. The cast includes Abe Karpen – an actor who starred alongside Natalie Portman in “New York, I Love You” – as well as Yeshaya Karp, Avremi Toron and L.A. Rosenzweig.
Everybody loves a good story. Chassidim have always had the custom to tell stories of Tzadikkim. In this lecture, Rabbi Abba Perelmuter of Long Beach, CA, eloquently describes the power of stories, why chassidim love telling stories of tzaddikim, and why people love listening to them.
From the opening remarks to the Keynote, and concluding with the Roll Call, CrownHeights.info presents a video recap of the inspiring and emotional speeches made at the Kinus Hashluchos Banquet Sunday night.
Sunday evening over 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch women emissaries and their guests will join together and celebrate at the annual banquet, part of a five-day International Conference of Women Emissaries. The broadcast will begin at 5:30 PM here on CrownHeights.info.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 101, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Tatty Caught Doing Something Wrong; Leaving One Rebbe for Another; Chassidus and Psychology; The Process of Writing and Publishing Sichos.
Amid the ongoing debate surrounding the role of women in the military, JEM brings the Rebbe’s words on the topic.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Yisro. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah teach us about the Jewish unity around Mount Sinai, if the Egyptians also had the same type of unity when attacking us for annihilation?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is true unity?
In a fiery speech at a recent event in Lakewood, businessman and noted philanthropist Shlomo Yehuda Rechnitz derided a phenomenon which he called “a man-made and self-made problem” regarding education. He called out the schools and asked “do you think these children are stupid?”
A panel consisting of five women – a lawyer, an entrepreneur, a professor, an activist and a Rebbetzin – speak out on the ever-changing role of women in society.
Two Palestinian terrorists stabbed and seriously wounded two Israelis in a supermarket in the settlement of Beit Horon on Monday night, before they a security guard shot and killed them.
In an exuberant explosion of music, Israeli star Gad Elbaz joins forces with Chasidic rapper Nissim Black, taking to the streets of New York City to perform a new rendition of Elbaz’ iconic hit ‘Hashem Melech.’
The atmosphere was electric as Avraham Fried sang at the Belev Echad Shabbaton for children with special needs in Israel this past Motzei Shabbos.
Marking 100 episodes! This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 100, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Launching MyLife Essay Contest; Regrets Over Parenting Mistakes; Special Children; Middos and Personality; Tu B’Shvat
The evil inclination comes up with all sorts of distractions to try to take a person away from the service of Hashem.
For many people, Tu B’Shvat has become a holiday that is synonymous with planting trees. What is the spiritual significance of Tu B’shvat and what do we learn from Torah’s specifications about when a tree might be cut down? Join Rabbi Nochum Mangel of Dayton, Ohio, to learn timely lessons from Tu B’Shvat.
Camp Gan Israel-Parksville’s Bar Mitzvah Division had the summer of a lifetime; some of those memories were captured on video, which staff-member Shamai Chein recently edited and made available for all to enjoy.
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