Video: Arabs ‘Execute’ Fake Jews at Morocco Demonstration
A pro-Palestinian demonstration in the Moroccan city of Casablanca featured men dressed as Orthodox Jews who were being led at gunpoint by masked men wearing Arab ‘keffiyehs.’
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8:00pm: Why Don’t We Appoint a New Rebbe?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 87, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Don’t We Appoint a New Rebbe? Role Models that Disappoint; The Centennial of 16 Cheshvan 1915-2015.
Weekly Living Torah Video: A Lesson in Business and Livelihood
After asking the Rebbe for business advice, Mr. and Mrs. Azar requested a blessing for wealth. Along with a “double portion of blessing,” they received a fundamental lesson in the life of a Jew. The wherewithal is accessible, we just need to tap into it and use it for the good.
Video: Treasures of Another Kind
This inspiring video, produced by Moshe Raskin of Swish Media, promotes the upcoming JLI series: Journey of the Soul. The video features Chassidic rock band 8th Day, whose song ‘Just Like You’ tells the story of a student who went to visit a sage, and is astounded to see the sage has virtually nothing in his home. The rabbi’s transformative explanation for his apparent lack teaches us all we need to know about our life’s priorities.
Video: Can You Identify the Beard? Hip or Hassid?
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel featured a Hilarius clip Thursday night showing a mix of bearded Brooklynites and asked the audience to attempt and identify if they were a Hassid or a Hipster. Kimmel’s crew was spotted on Kingston Avenue Wednesday filming in preparation for the game.
Shliach on TEDx: The Power of Now
Speaking at a recent TEDx conference, California Shliach Rabbi Raleigh Resnick analyzes the power of staying in the moment to solve problems. His analysis and storytelling abilities make for a great Talk.
Video: Rabbi Shais Taub Addresses Child Abuse
One hundred and fifty Orthodox Jews filled the main sanctuary of Chabad of Boca Raton on October 11 for a night of awareness and education of child abuse (CSA). The highly charged event served as an opportunity to show support to victims of abuse and to educate the public about its dangers.
Two Terrorists Stab Israeli in Beit Shemesh
Two Arab terrorists stabbed an Israeli man on Thursday in the Ultra-Orthodox town of Beit Shemesh. Both attackers were shot by security forces. This incident was followed by the attempted stabbing of an Israeli soldier in Chevron a short while later.
Bar Mitzvah Boy is the Unexpected Star of Oprah Show
Mendel Hurwitz woke up Tuesday morning to find himself a viral sensation.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: Begin Your Story
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Lech Lecha.
Female IDF Soldier Stabbed; Condition Critical
A female IDF soldier was stabbed in Kikar Adam in Shomron, West Bank, and is reportedly in critical condition and fighting for her life. The terrorist was neutralized by gunfire from other soldiers.
Video: Debate over Secular Education at Yeshivas
In a video interview released today on BRIC TV, a channel discussing issues of interest to Brooklyn residents, three panelists: Naftali Moster, founder of YAFFED, Amy Sara Clark, editor of The Jewish Week, and community activist Ezra Friedlander tackled the hot-button issue of secular education in Chasidic Yeshivas – or the alleged lack thereof.
Terror Continues: Vehicular attack, Stoning, Stabbing
Today, Tuesday, a Palestinian terrorist drove his vehicle into a group of Israelis near the Israeli settlement of Gush Etzion in the West Bank. The attack follows two previous attacks that occurred in the West Bank today: an Israeli citizen was hit by a truck and killed after his car was pelted with stones, and the attempted stabbing of an IDF soldier – both of which occurred near Chevron.
Video: How Can We Experience Miracles?
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 we experience miracles?
Video: Neturei Karta at Manhattan Anti-Israel Rally
While thousands of people gathered in Manhattan’s Times Square for a rally supporting Israel and denouncing Palestinian terrorism today, a counter-rally was held nearby, in which the tiny Jewish state was denounced for daring to defend itself. One of the headline speakers at this protest was a member of the anti-Zionist Ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect Neturei Karta.
One Classmate in Texas Memorializes the Life of Another Through Song
Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 is a day that will always be remembered with sadness for the student body of the close-knit Torah Day School in Houston. On that day, they were told that seventh-grader Mendel Cotlar had suddenly lost his life from unexpected complications from GSD-1A, a metabolic disease. Only three weeks beforehand, they had sang and danced with him at his bar mitzvah celebration.
2 Dead, 11 Wounded After Terrorist Opens Fire at Be’er Sheva Bus Station
An Israel Defense Forces soldier and an Eritrian asylum-seeker were killed, and 11 people wounded, when a terrorist stabbed a soldier, grabbed his rifle and opened fire late Sunday in the central bus station in the southern city of Be’er Sheva. The asylum-seeker was mistakenly shot and killed by security forces responding to the attack.
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