The discovery of hundreds of chickens abandoned in Crown Heights Friday afternoon has drawn renewed attention to Kapparos, and the important principle of Tza’ar Ba’alei Chayim.
With great sadness we report the passing of Dr. Asher (Allan) Plaut OBM, a longtime and beloved pediatrician who served the Crown Heights community for more than 40 years. He passed away on Shabbos, the 8th of Tishrei 5787, following a short illness. Updated with Levaya information.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Kapparos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Years later, at a farbrengen in shul, the man called Rabbi Raichik one of his best friends. Only then did Rabbi Raichik feel that his efforts had finally succeeded and that their relationship had been fully repaired.
Leading up to Rosh Hashanah, more than 6,000 Jewish children at over 200 Chabad centers around the world took part in Rosh Hashanah Opening Day, a sports-themed pre-Rosh Hashanah experience developed and supplied by CKids International, a program of Merkos 302.
From the archives: A 1964 press release by Lubavitch News Service reporting on a special Yom Kippur mission to a remote US Air Force Base in Greenland, at the instructions of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
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