Video: Oholei Torah Staff Appreciation Dinner Recap
Over 400 Oholei Torah staff-members and their spouses filled the institution’s main ballroom this past Motzei Shabbos for a gala banquet and Melave Malka in their honor.
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Shliach Opens State Senate with Prayer Invocation
Yesterday, Rabbi Zalman Heber, Shliach in Tacoma, Washington, was honored to open the Washington State Senate floor with a prayer invocation.
Video: How Can We Bring the Redemption Closer?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Bo. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we bring the redemption closer?
Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff with kids from the unique camp last year.
Deaf, But Not Excluded
A Jewish overnight summer camp may be an experience most Jewish kids have come to expect, but it was with the opening last summer of a program created for deaf Jewish children–the only such program in the world–that they too, will have the same benefit. Now two Israeli deaf children will also get to join, promising to make summer 2015 the experience of a lifetime for them.
Video: ‘Ashreinu’ over Israeli Airwaves
This past Motzei Shabbos, Chabad singer Nemuel Harouche was hosted on the “Live Motzei Shabbos” radio program on the Kol Chai station in Israel, where he sang a lively rendition of the classic Lubavitcher Niggun “Ashreinu.”
Jewbellish The News: Jewish Satirist Responds to Paris Terror
In the latest episode of Jewbellish The News, comedian Mendy Pellin gives his take on the Paris terror attacks that targeted a satirical magazine and a kosher supermarket.
Photos, Videos: Israeli Chief Rabbi Visits West Coast
Israel’s chief Rabbi Dovid Lau just completed an extensive visit in California. During the trip, he visited many Chabad Mosdos, and was interviewed at public town hall meetings in Agoura, Yorba Linda and S. Diego.
The Living Legacy: Rebuilding the Berdichever’s Kever
Sofya Nayer, a Jewish Resident of New Jersey, shares a fascinating story about her birth, and her journey back to her hometown of Berdichev in central Ukraine – which led to the rebuilding of the grave-site of the Tzadik R’ Levi Yitzchok of Berdichev.
NYC Mayor in Paris: ‘We’ve Walked in the Same Shoes’
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio arrived in Paris today to pay his respects to the victims of the terrorist massacres at Charlie Hebdo and the Hyper Chacher supermarket. De Blasio told Parisians that New Yorkers have “walked in the same shoes.”
Friendship Circle Hosts 2nd Annual Zumba Recital
The Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s hosted its 2nd Annual ZUMBA Recital this past weekend.
Eli Marcus Releases Debut Album
The long awaited debut album from Eli Marcus, the youngest member of the musically gifted Marcus family, is finally being released.
Lubavitcher Boy Competes in Classical Music Contest
Pinchas Antal, a 14-year-old Lubavitcher boy from Montreal, has entered a classical music contest being hosted by the CBC (Canada’s national public broadcaster). His entry video, in which he artfully performs an 8-minute-long classical piece on a grand piano, can be viewed in the extended article.
7:30pm: Live Broadcast of ULY Auction Event
Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Annual Chinese auction event is well under way and the first ever Kosher Cake Boss is scheduled to begin at 8pm followed by the auction drawing. All of which is being broadcast live here on CrownHeights.info
8:00pm: Challenging Our Chinuch System
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 52, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Challenging our Chinuch System; Nigleh vs. Chassidus in Cheder; Should We Openly Disagree with a Child’s Teacher; Advice for Beard Pickers; Livelihood vs. Home Life Balance, as well as the Essay Contest Launch.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Can Someone Be Chosen to Do Evil?
When G-d made His covenant with Abraham, He decreed: “Your children will be enslaved and oppressed for 400 years. But the nation that enslaves them, I will punish.” How could G-d punish the Egyptians for something he decreed upon them to do? The answer can be found in Maimonides’ laws of prophecy.
Photos and Videos: The Rebbe and the Rov
In light of the passing last night of the beloved and longtime Rov of Kfar Chabad, Rabbi Mordechai Shmuel Ashkenazi, OBM, we present two videos in which the he relates intimate encounters he had with the Rebbe in Yechidus, as well as a series of photos of his encounters with the Rebbe between the years of 1986 and 1991, which was compiled by JEM.
Video: Shliach Interviews Crown Heights Assemblyman
Rabbi Nachman Simon, Shliach to Delmar, a suburb of Albany, interviewed New York State Assemblyman Walter Mosley, whose district includes parts of Crown Heights, for a TV talk show called ‘The Jewish View.’
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