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.
Avremy and Mushka (nee Hecht) Scheinfeld from Crown Heights had a baby boy!
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.
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.
Young Jewish professionals around the globe are marking their calendars as registration opens for the CYP Encounter Shabbaton.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zalman Jaffe (Whitefield, UK) to Musia Lustig (New Haven, CT)
Sholom Butman (Crown Heights) to Bella Diament (Montreal, Canada)
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.
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.
At the conclusion of Tishrei, Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar, penned a letter to the Shluchim of the country.
Parshas Noach is a reminder to us of our obligation to the nations of the world – to guide them in serving Hashem and maintaining a truly human society. In his letter, the Rebbe gives advice to a non-Jew regarding remarriage, livelihood and the Seven Noahide Laws.
