PSA: Street Paving To Take Place In Crown Heights This Week
Road paving will take place in and around Crown Heights this week, bringing with it expected traffic and noise disturbances.
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New Course To Certify Shluchim in End-of-life Counseling
The Jewish Hospice Care Seminar, a four-part course from Merkos 302’s Chabad On Call equipping Shluchim with the tools to provide end-of-life spiritual care, is open for registration. Starting virtually on Nov 7th and concluding in person at the Kinus Hashluchim, the course will help Shluchim across the country provide care to more Yidden with dignity and respect.
Lamplighters Podcast: From Karlin to Wellesley
In Episode 49 of Lamplighters: Stories From Chabad Emissaries On The Jewish Frontier, reporter/producer Gary Waleik presents the story of Rabbi Moshe Bleich, shliach at Wellesley Weston Chabad in suburban Boston. Bleich’s story winds, quite circuitously, through Brooklyn, Stoliner and Lubavitcher yeshivas, California, upstate New York and Ukraine.
Baby Boy!
Avremy and Mushka (nee Hecht) Scheinfeld from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
Chabad IDF Soldier Schneur Cohen HY’D Killed While Fighting in Gaza
Schneur Cohen HY’D, a 20-year-old Chabad bochur and soldier in the IDF’s Givati Brigade was killed while fighting Hamas terrorists in Gaza.
Motzei Shabbos: Daylight Savings Time Ends
Daylight Savings Time comes to an end this Motzei Shabbos. At 2:00am, all clocks should “fall back” to 1:00am, giving everyone a much appreciated extra hour of sleep.
Despite Year of Challenges Annual Weekend for Young Professionals Set to Be Largest Ever
Young Jewish professionals around the globe are marking their calendars as registration opens for the CYP Encounter Shabbaton.
Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Cincinnati Chabad House Farbrengen #1
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.
Thee 770 Lawsuit Circus Continues With Dueling Letters, Gabboim Forced To Apologize
The circus that is the ongoing lawsuit between Agudas Chasidei Chabad and The Gabboim of 770 continued over the last days of sukkos with a series of dueling letters and an apology from the Gabboim.
BDE: Harav Moshe Yitzchok Gurkow, OBM
With great sadness we report the passing of Harav Moshe Yitzchok Gurkow OBM, a pioneer for Jewish education in Boston, MA and founder of the Shaloh House.
Weekly Story: Rashi Sichos Erev Shabbos Parshas Noach 5785
Being that his Shabbos, Parshas Noach, is 60 years since the Rebbe began explaining a Rashi on a possuk of the weekly parsha, I decided that in this week’s post I will attempt to present some aspects of how it began and evolved.
Police Announce Hate Crime and Terror Charges Against Suspect in Chicago Antisemitic Shooting
Chicago Police on Thursday announced that felony terrorism and hate crime charges have been added to the charges against the suspect who shot an Orthodox Jewish man as he was walking to synagogue this past Shabbat, and then fired at responding officers during a shootout.
Weekly Dvar Torah: Noach’s Ark, the Tower of Babel, and Redemption
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman looks at the story of Noach and the unique message it gives us for our lives even in this day and age.
New Engagemeent!
Zalman Jaffe (Whitefield, UK) to Musia Lustig (New Haven, CT)
New Engagemeent!
Sholom Butman (Crown Heights) to Bella Diament (Montreal, Canada)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva Students’ Creativity Shine at Annual Sukkah Expo
Ahead of Sukkos, talmidim of Lubavitcher Yeshiva used their creativity to build miniature sukkah modules, expressing many of the dinim and minhogim of the Sukkah, as well as the beauty of sharing the Sukkah and mivtza lulov.
Let Here Be Light: Chabad on Campus Spreads Jewish Pride Across North America
As the new academic year kicks off, Jewish pride is shining brightly on campuses across North America, thanks to a groundbreaking initiative by Chabad on Campus International, the “Let Here Be Light” tour.
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