This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 87, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Don’t We Appoint a New Rebbe? Role Models that Disappoint; The Centennial of 16 Cheshvan 1915-2015.
A young girl with special needs was hurt after being struck by a car. Witnesses said the girl was just dropped off and the driver did not wait for the child to safely cross the street.
After a long fundraising campaign, the Chabad House of St. Lazare, Hudson, and Vaudreuil – located in southern Quebec, Canada – welcomed all members of the community to a grand opening ceremony on Sunday, Oct. 18.
Two years ago members of the Jewish community in the Russian city of Kaluga had the cities ancient Shul returned after being shuttered by the communists some 100 years ago. Last week an exhaustive renovation was completed and the Shul rededicated in a joyous ceremony.
Since the April 25 earthquake and the ensuing tremors that devastated of Nepal, some villagers have rebuilt their feeble mud homes, only to see them washed away by mudslides that plague the South Asian nation.
A Jewish man was stabbed twice in the stomach after he intervened in an attack on another Jewish worshiper and a rabbi by a man shouting anti-Semitic slurs near a synagogue in Marseilles, France, Shabbos morning.
