This past Wednesday and Thursday were the 9th and 10th of Kislev. The Mitteler Rebbe’s birthday and histalkus fifty-four years later were on the 9th of Kislev, while he was redeemed from jail or better said from being questioned on the 10th of Kislev, a year (minus a day) before his histalkus.
A rabbi was assaulted in Vienna, Austria Thursday evening, local police announced Friday morning. According a report by ORF, the woman screamed “Slaughter all Jews” during the attack.
In his weekly letter, Rabbi Zalmen Wishedski wrote of the human struggle between good and bad, between urges and ambitions, between Tohu and tikkun takes place in the form of “He redeemed my soul in peace.”
Preparations are in full swing for the arrival in Israel of 2,000 immigrants who have been waiting for decades in Ethiopia.
Shazak has released its weekly Parsha Post for the week of parshas Vayeitzei, and has made it available for all here on CrownHeights.info.
According to unofficial sources, an Iranian nuclear scientist has been assassinated near Tehran. The scientist has been identified as Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, known as “the father of the Iranian bomb” and Amad project.
With Yud Daled Kislev quickly approaching this coming Monday, Vaad Ohr Vchom Hahiskashrus has made a series of resources available for all.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe encouraging the singing at a farbrengen.
Rabbi Herschel Feigelstock, an educator who narrowly escaped the Nazis in his native Austria, was imprisoned in a wartime internment camp in Canada, taught Judaic studies in Yiddish to Jewish public school children, and then served as a pillar of the Montreal Jewish community as a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary for three-quarters of a century, passed away Nov. 25. He was 98.
On the other side of the globe, off the sparkling shores of the Pacific ocean, Australia’s JewQ competition comes to a close. What started as an adaptation of the global JewQ competition, designed to accommodate its unique school schedule, turned into a full-fledged program with hundreds of kids over a dozen cities across the continent.
In connection with the main theme of the parsha this week, Vayetze, in which Yaakov Avinu goes to Charan and establishes a family – the foundation of the Jewish People – we share a fascinating letter to an Educational Therapist […]
A scene you could cry over, as Rabbi Yudi Dukes leaves NYU Hospital in Manhattan and takes a trip to the Ohel.
A short term investigation by Crown Heights’s 71st Police Precinct ended with an arrest and four illegal guns taken off the streets of Crown Heights.
Irgun Limud HaTanya is a learning program under the auspices of Heichal Menachem of Boro Park, led by Rabbi Yoel Naparstek, that has now gone international and been established in many locations such as: Boro Park, Staten Island, Williamsburg, Lakewood, Antwerp with many more cities and countries currently in the developing
by Mussi Sharfstein – Lubavitch.com The last place Rabbi Chaim Markovits expected to hear an authentic, heimish Yiddish with a Brooklyn accent was in Macon, Georgia (pop. 150,000). Not that it’s implausible—Rural Georgia is home to roughly 5-10,000 Jews. Which […]
Dr. Aryeh Morgenstern, a Senior Fellow at Machon Shalem in Jerusalem, is a historian who specializes in the history of the Jewish settlement of Israel. He was interviewed in April of 2010.
Crown Heights Shomrim has released an Alert notifying the community of multiple reports of a man indecently exposing himself to young children in Crown Heights.
