Long Island celebrated the grand opening of its first branded state-of-the-art CTeen Lounge at the Village Chabad of Stony Brook as teens, their families, and community members gathered for the milestone ribbon-cutting ceremony.
Author and Historian Rabbi Chaim Dalfin gives a tribute to Rabbi Moshe Yitzchak Gurkow OBM, a Shliach of the Rebbe for sixty-five years in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mutik Schusterman (Atlanta, GA) to Shaina Gurary (Montreal, Canada) L’Chaim: Tonight, Sunday, 8:00pm at Lubavitcher Yeshiva Crown Street
A special Melava Malka was held at a home in Paris on Motzei Shabbos parshas Noach with famed French Shliach Rav Binyamin Mergui.
A new Dayanus course is starting this week, offering a unique opportunity to learn Dayanus on a high level with an experienced and notable Maggid Shiur Rabbi Nachman Wilhelm in an interactive way. Scholarships for Shluchim and Bochurim are available.
Yosef Emunah (Baltimore, MD) to Pessy Greenstein (Crown Heights)
Road paving will take place in and around Crown Heights this week, bringing with it expected traffic and noise disturbances.
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.
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.
