A new face is entering the race for Congress in Brooklyn’s 9th District, and his connection to Chabad is growing through his roots in Crown Heights.
This upcoming Monday, 17 Iyar 5786, will mark the third Yahrtzeit of my rosh yeshiva and personal mashpia – Harav Michoel Akiva Gershon a”h Wagner. To say that he lived an exemplary life and affected hundreds of talmidim, is an understatement.
Rabbi and Rebbetzin Vigler of Chabad of Palm Beach Gardens took to the stage with famous political commentator Ben Schapiro in an event was sponsored by a grant from Joel and Nancy Hart with support from Lauren Gross.
Exactly fifty years after the Rebbe introduced the 12 Pesukim on Lag BaOmer 5736, Chabad.org’s ChabadU is launching a new course that brings the Torah wisdom they contain to Jewish parents everywhere.
More than 900 students and young Jewish adults from across Russia and other FSU countries, arrived in Brazil with remarkable dedication. They undertook long and complex air journeys lasting over 24 hours, traveling through multiple countries across the globe.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
Rabbi Shea Hecht sat down with the Clappy and Frank Show to discuss Clappy and Frank Show: Rabbi Hecht On Breathwork, Therapists, and Psychedelic Healing.
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Kollel Anash of Crown Heights has released a new volume of the acclaimed Kovetz Iyunim series. The Kovetz includes articles by kollel members on the topic of Choshen Mishpat.
The Merkos Chinuch Office recently hosted the fourth class of its Foundations of Chinuch training series, a program exploring the Rebbe’s approach to chinuch through the Twelve Pesukim, with this session focusing on Kol Yisroel and Ve’ahavta.
When Lisa Sharkey was invited to a literacy event at the New York Public Library featuring Her Majesty Queen Camilla of England, who was visiting during the British royal couple’s state visit to the United States, the publisher knew just what to gift the Queen.
At a farbrengen, the Rebbe discusses with a professor the possibility of publishing—and completing—an unfinished mathematical manuscript written by his brother.
In a drone attack that wounded at least 18 people and damaged residential buildings, Chabad-Lubavitch’s Ohr Avner Jewish day school, led by Rabbi Avraham and Chaya Wolff, sustained a direct hit, leaving the building severely damaged.
Building on the success of last year’s inaugural retreat, this year’s program featured a lineup of seven engaging speakers, covering topics from Shalom Bayit and bitachon to the meaning of tefilah and personal geulah.
Mrs. Rochel Goldman and her husband, Rabbi Yossy Goldman, have served as Chabad emissaries in South Africa for fifty years, since 1976, and have led the Sydenham-Highlands North Hebrew Congregation in Johannesburg since 1986. She was interviewed in February 2026.
The first time Rabbi Yossi Hus stepped foot in Montañita was in 2019. “I came with a few friends to run a Passover Seder there,” he recalls. After he got married, he and his wife Henny came for Passover — this time as a couple. This year, they moved to Montañita to establish the area’s first-ever full-time Jewish presence.
Walls of stone — not carved — whole stones placed together with mud to build ancient houses. Bakeries in caves with chimneys. Underground food storage, and water systems that carried rain through tunnels and into deep wells. It’s a love and fear moment.
