This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 103, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Female Judges in the Essay Contest; Self-Esteem; Lying; Criticizing Children Constructively; Reward and Punishment; Pleasure from Other’s Misfortunes.
Arrested on charges of smuggling drugs, a soon-to-married Israeli couple have found themselves in a real-life nightmare after they were arrested in a Ukrainian Airport with two pounds of marijuana in their luggage. Relatives claim that they were framed and have launched a Pidyon Shvuim fund to help cover the legal fees ahead of their trial, which is set for February 25th.
The Chairman of the Israeli Knesset, Yuli Edelstein, and the Israeli Minister of Health, Rabbi Yaakov Litzman, welcomed a delegation of European Jewish children belonging to Chabad’s Morasha Educational initiative, who arrived in the Holy Land as part of the institution’s annual Bar and Bat Mitzvah trip.
Delayed due to inclement weather, a sizable crowed turned out Motzai Shabbos for a Melava Malka in support of Gmach Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib.
The month of Adar is characterized with the spirit of joy, as the Talmud relates that “when Adar comes we increase in happiness.” Rabbi Yitzchak Shochet, Rabbi of London’s Mill Hill Synagogue, shares insight into how happiness is ultimately a choice, and when one chooses to be happy, all obstacles and challenges can be overcome.
