More than 4,000 Hasidic rabbis from around the world are gathering in the city this weekend. Today they are paying tribute to spiritual leader Rabbi Menachem Schneerson by visiting his gravesite at Old Montefiore Cemetery in Queens. The rabbi is credited with reinvigorating Jews after the devastation of the Holocaust.
Three years ago this weekend, believers of two religions came face to face, with horrific results. It is remembered as the Mumbai Attacks. Over the course of four days, 10 terrorists from the Islamic group Lashkar-e-Taiba perpetrated coordinated attacks on 10 different locations across India’s financial capital. In addition to three hotels, a cinema, and a hospital for women and children, four of the terrorists traveled to the Nariman House, which served as the city’s Chabad Jewish community center.
This Shabbos, in honor of the Kinus Hashluchim, Rosh Chodesh Kislev and Shabbos Mevarchim, many Shuls in Crown Heights will be hosting a Farbrengen with a visiting Shliach who will give words of inspiration. Following is a list of 44 Crown Heights Shuls that will be hosting such an event Shabbos afternoon.
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Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present three unique, never-seen-before photos of the Rebbe from various years of his Nesius. If you can identify when any of them were taken, please lave a comment in the extended article.
The shining stars of the world, the Shluchim Online School students, joined together for a grand program Thursday.
In the small town of Netishyn, Ukraine, more than 1,500 Jewish bodies are buried in two shallow graves. The bodies are victims of the Einsatzgruppen, Hitler’s infamous para-military death squads that swept through the region in 1941. There is no monument and the victims’ clothing and shoes, along with fragments of Torah scrolls, prayer books and tefillin [phylacteries] still lay on the ground.
All this may change soon, thanks to the efforts of Lea New, a 2008 graduate of Yeshiva University’s Stern College for Women.
This Shabbos at the Besht, various speakers will lead discussions and Farbrengens all throughout the Shabbos, including: Rabbi Dov Greenberg (Stanford University), Rabbi Shais Taub (Crown Heights), Rabbi Yossi Lew (Atlanta, GA) and Rabbi Tzvi Freeman (Toronto, Canada). The Shabbos will culminate with a Melave Malka by the Besht’s very own Rabbi Mendel Kalmenson.
During the siege on Mumbai – this Sabbath will mark the third anniversary of its start – the US Consulate in the city were informed that Gavriel and Rivka Holtzberg were taken to a hospital unconscious and their son is safe, Wikileaks documents reveal. It also shows that during one point after Nariman House were cleared, the consulate was unable to locate the body of Leibish Teitelbaum in the morgue with other victims, and it searched for it in hospitals and morgues.
TEMECULA, CA — The Chabad Jewish Center of Temecula finally has a home that’s not, well —- a home. For the last 12 years, Chabad has operated out of the home of Rabbi Yitzchok Hurwitz and his wife, Dina. Almost immediately after they moved into Temecula, they opened up their house for a Purim celebration.
