NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an incident where eight swastikas were drawn in the stairwell of a Crown Heights apartment building.
With great sadness we inform you of the very untimely passing of Hatomim Chaim ‘Jaime’ ben Dovid Meir Lipszyc, OBM. He was 50 years old.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 28, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: The Chassidic perspective on the Nine Days, fraudulent healers, how to deal with loneliness, mivtzoyim for introverts, estranged adult children.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of Tisha B’av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
As per the directive of the Rebbe to learn about Hilchos Beis Hamikdosh during the three weeks, and to fulfill the Rebbe’s request to make Siyumim until the 15th of Av, a group of camp staff, Anash, and shluchim gathered with Rabbi Shimon Raichik – Mara D’asra of Los Angeles and Rov of Congregation Levi Yitzchak – to continue a years-long tradition and learn Meseches Tomid.
The following story appeared on the Israeli website Radio Kol Chai, as told by Avi Jacob (and translated by Rivka Friedman). Yet another story whereby following Hashem’s will, a disaster was averted.
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