Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim will be staying at the Ohel over Shabbos, as preparations are being made to greet the ten’s of thousands that will visit the Ohel of the Rebbe in honor of his Yohrtzeit.
In Honor of Gimmel Tammuz Rabbi Yoel Kahn presents a special edition of his weekly Chassidus webcast, The Chassidic Perspective, titled “Hiskashrus Today – Part 1“.
New York State’s highest appeals court has refused to reinstate former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on the sale of big sodas by restaurants and other vendors in New York City, striking a fatal blow to the controversial rule.
It is one week before Gimmel Tammuz—the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and a group of several hundred people have gathered in a large synagogue in Montreal to learn his teachings.
Early this morning, a Crown Heights resident was leaving his home for work when he noticed a couple of young men dumping garbage in the commercial dumpster of a nearby business. The man confronted them and explained that businesses in New York City have to pay for every bag of garbage they dispose of, and that what they were doing was a form of G’neiva (stealing).
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yossi New, regional director of Chabad of Georgia, will lead a discussion on the topic – Preparing for Gimmel Tammuz.
The Jewish world is all abuzz lately about three biographies of the Rebbe that were just released in time for Gimmel Tammuz. Yet, for Chassidim, the Rebbe’s own writings are in a totally different category, as they not only give one a glimpse of the Rebbe and his greatness, but also, and more importantly, serve as a true source of learning chassidus in its most pure and genuine form.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe delivering a Sicha in the mid 1980s.
A friend of mine is fond of saying, “My tribe (he is Jewish) invented guilt.” Still, be that as it may, along with shame and humility, the feeling of guilt is among the character traits that have become taboo and outmoded in our age and culture of self-centeredness and gratification.
A disturbing experience involving the positioning of an infant car seat on an airplane has been amicably resolved with Southwest Airlines. Yosef and Sarah Shidler, the Crown Heights couple at the center of the dispute, received both an apology and compensation for their troubles.
