Over 60 fathers and sons gathered for a finale event to this years season of Avos U’banim in Coral Springs, FL. Taking place over the past 18 weeks, they shared time every Motzai Shabbos to study together and were treated to banquet.
Two bus-loads of Beis Rivkah of Montreal High School students visited five Montreal Jewish schools and presented a specially prepared, original, interactive educational program for the young children.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha — Vayikra. This week he answers the question: How can we come Face to Face with Hashem? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 206, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Are We Holding on to New Chumros Which Don’t Seem to Be Part of the Original Torah? U’Ldovka Bo: To What Extent Does Cleaving to the Rebbe Attach One to G-d? What Special Powers Does the Rebbe Have? Are Lubavitchers Who Live in Crown Heights Second Class Citizens? How Do We Apply the Chassidic Example of a King in Our Modern Age When We No Longer Have Monarchs?
Today is Chof Zayin Adar, and I’m not sure what to make out of it. It’s been 26 long years, years of hope, belief, and anguish. Who would believe, that we would ever mark a 26th ‘anniversary’ of Chof Zayin Adar.
Moshe and Chanie (nee Franklin) Lazar (Pomona, NY)
Ari (ben David) Werdiger (Melbourne, Australia) and Batsheva Vogel (London, England)
Daniel and Batsheva Goldshmid (Valley Village, CA)
Berel and Mushka (nee Flint) Greenfeld (Crown Heights)
It has been a bit over 2 years since the Rebbe’s Niggunim Volume 1 hit the shelves. Boruch Hashem, it is still going strong. Over 4,000 DVDs have been sold around the world. More importantly, thousands of kids now know and sing the niggunim, which no doubt gives the Rebbe great nachas. The Rebbe’s Nigunnim Volume I has even been translated into French! Yet there is one question Producer Chaim Hershkowitz gets over and over: When is Volume 2 coming out? Hershkowitz responds, “I wish I could tell them.”
How does one inform his family that he was just diagnosed with end-stage kidney failure? That’s the position Harvey was in. He couldn’t. He knew it wasn’t too long before he’d need to go on dialysis (a form of life support). His wife and two young daughters in college would be devastated. Thus he downplayed it. He stated half-truths that would be considerably more digestible to them.
Children’s film producer Chaim Hershkowitz launches fundraising campaign to help complete a special long awaited project. Can the Chabad community pull together to help complete a special and long awaited project in honor of Chof Zein Adar?
More than 150 college students from across the Lone Star State united with their Texas tribe in College Station, Texas for the 10th Annual Intercollegiate Texas Shabbaton.
Mendel Gordon (Marine Park, NY) and Ruchama Tokayer (Israel)
Look around the world and observe a dizzying array of elements, movement, color and creativity. What’s behind it all? Is there purpose in the seemingly endless struggle for survival and the human quest to live better? Is the soul for real?
Mendy Naparstek (Myrtle Beach, SC) and Henny Lefkowitz (Monsey, NY)
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