Budding Entrepreneurs Continue to Grow After Fund It
Earlier this summer, some 130 members of the Crown Heights Jewish community gathered to cheer on four intrepid entrepreneurs as they pitched their start-ups at Fund It.
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Video: What You Can’t See on the UN’s Maps of Gaza
The UN published several maps showing the aftermath of Operation Protective Edge. The maps mark damaged buildings with red dots scattered throughout Gaza. But this map tells only half the story: Hamas used many of these buildings – including houses, hospitals and schools – as sites to launch rockets and carry out other attacks.
Mourners accompany the casket of Reb Yosef Raskin, HYD, at his funeral in Crown Heights.
With Rabbi Raksin’s Killers Still at Large, Miami Jews Remain United, But Fearful
On Monday evening, police officials and community leaders from Miami-Dade met with residents of the North Miami Beach Jewish community to inform them of the latest updates in the unsolved case of a Crown Heights rabbi who was shot and killed while walking to synagogue on August 9, but despite police outreach many residents remain fearful, wondering whether or not the case will ever be solved.
Video: Iron Dome Takes Out 15 Rockets at Once
The Iron Dome, Israel’s missile defense system, proves itself yet again as it takes out 15 Qassam rockets fired by Hamas from the Gaza strip at once.
Stony Brook Chabad Sends 70 Pizzas to Feed IDF Base
As the IDF continues to protect the Holy Land and the Jewish people, Chabad at Stony Brook, Long Island, felt obliged to show their support and love by sending packages with personal letters, 70 pies of pizza to feed and entire army base, and iPads to wounded soldiers.
Video: The Matzah Ball Soup Challenge
In the latest episode of Jew-bel-ish, Lubavitcher comedian Mendy Pellin accepts the ‘ice bucket challenge,’ but finds a Heter to do it with hot Matzah ball soup to show his true commitment.
Video: What is Israel Connect?
Rabbi Sender and Rebbetzin Sara Gordon, Chabad Shluchim to Ottawa, Canada, created an innovated platform for elderly North American volunteers to connect with Israeli students and help them learn English. In its short lifespan, the program has seen tremendous growth and remarkable success.
Police and Border Patrol officers together with voluneers continue the search for missing Yeshiva student, Aharon Sofer (inset), around the Jerusalem Forest. Photo: Flash 90 / VIN News.
Search for Yeshiva Student Intensifies, Feared Abducted
As the search for the missing yeshiva bochur in Jerusalem enters its fifth day, the father of Aron Sofer is asking the public to keep his son foremost in their minds and deeds.
Mumbai Celebrates Reopening of Chabad Center
Surrounded by guests from around the world and more than 25 Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries from Asia who are in India for a regional conference, Chabad of Mumbai’s headquarters—also known as Nariman House—opened its doors once again today.
Video: Sara Chana’s Tips for Improving Mood
Sara Chana Silverstein, a Crown Heights mother of 7 who specializes in areas of alternative medicine and herbs, appeared on Fox 25 News to share her wisdom on moodiness and mood improvement.
8:00pm: Anti-Semitism, Alternative Medicine and Yeshiva Tuition
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 31, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: Rising Anti-Semitism, Tanya & Non-Jews, Muslim Fanaticism, Alternative Medicine, Yeshiva Tuition, Elul & Tishrei.
Video: Ice Bucket Minyan
At the Dinerman-Kreiman wedding in S. Diego Wednesday night, in the presence of a smiling Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, ten attendees performed the ‘ice bucket challenge’ to raise awareness for ALS.
Video: Lubavitcher Touts Revolutionary Tech Startup
Nathan Hecht, the son of Chabad Shluchim to Forest Hills, Queens, appeared on the Fox Business channel yesterday to discuss his latest startup – an app that ‘self-destructs’ files sent over e-mail and social media.
Dovid Efune: Obama ‘Agitating’ While Israel Under Fire
The Obama administration should not be pushing its agenda on Israel while the Jewish state’s citizens are facing rocket fire from Gaza and are in the midst of a military campaign to address the threat, The Algemeiner Editor Dovid Efune said in a recent debate on i24 News at Jerusalem’s Jaffa Port.
Video: The ‘Nice’ Bucket Challenge
In front of Raskin’s Fish Market on Kingston Ave. this afternoon, comedian Moshe Kravitzky had a bucket of ice dumped on his head, but for a good cause – raising $2,000 for Yad L’shliach’s fund for Rabbi Yitzi horowitz, who is suffering from ALS.
Video: Another Smashing Summer at LDC-Monsey
Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey completed yet another smashing, exciting and meaningful summer. See the highlights of the summer of 5774 in this video slideshow.
Video: Black Is the New Orange
The Jerusalem Post recently ran a feature article on Montreal Shliach Rabbi Zushe Silberstein and his work with the Jewish inmates of Quebec’s prisons, both before and after their release. This video, titled ‘Black Is the New Orange,’ accompanies the article.
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