Mrs. Devorah Groner, 92, Pioneering Australian Jewish Leader
Mrs. Devorah Groner, a pioneering matriarch of Jewry in Melbourne, Australia, passed away on May 27. She was 92 years old.
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Over 2,000 Beis Rivka Girls Pose for Group Photo
All the divisions of Crown Heightses largest girls school – Beis Rivka, gathered in the parking lot of their Crown Street location to pose for a group photo, the first of its kind to feature all the students in one […]
8:00pm: Are Special Children Deprived?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 214, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can Someone Consider Himself a Chassid and Not Be Careful with Halacha? Is Life in Our Hands or Hashem’s Hands? Are Special Children Deprived? Follow-Up: My Teenage Friends Are Drowning: What Can We Do? Why Is the Omer Counting Not from Malchus to Chesed? Chassidus Applied to Behaalotecho; 118th Anniversary of the Rebbe’s Parents.
New Engagement!
Shneur Mangel (Cincinnati, OH) and Nechama Isenberg (Morristown, NJ)
Alternate Side Parking Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations are suspended on Memorial Day, Monday, May 28.
New Engagement!
Mendy Sitrin (Baltimore, MD) and Baila Perkins (Columbia, MO)
New Engagement!
Moshe Deitsch (New Haven, CT) and Bassie (bas Mayer) Rivkin (Bay Harbor, FL)
Rabbi Sholom Paltiel speaking at a Dinner benefitting Chabad of Port Washington. Archive Photo.
BBC Corrects Story Linking Chabad and Trump’s Lawyer
A BBC story purportedly linking Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, and the Ukrainian President through a ‘charity’ called Chabad of Port Washington was denied by Shliach Rabbi Shalom Paltiel, and the BBC issued a clarification to the original story.
Back to Life: Saved by Hatzalah after a Heart Attack
While visiting his in-laws with his family during Tishrei of last year, Rabbi Follie Dubov’s wife noticed that he was breathing irregularly. When she asked if he was ok, he did not respond. Hatzalah was quickly called and by the time they arrived on scene he was in full cardiac arrest.
From left: Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Moyshe (Mitchell) Silk, Treasury Chief of Staff Eli Miller, and students Aaron Linder, Aaron Blanks, Noson Sollish, Daniel Bland and Dovi Lipskier gather in the Diplomatic Reception Room at the Treasury Building in Washington, D.C.
A U.S. Treasury Official’s Moving Encounter With Atlanta Yeshivah Students
When a group of post-bar mitzvah junior high school students from Chaya Mushka Children’s House Elementary and Middle School in Atlanta were rewarded with a trip to the nations capitol, it had a profound impact on one U.S. Treasury official whom the met and Davened with.
Baby Boy!
Levi and Lia (nee Perlov) Levertov (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Mordechai and Bassi Friedman (Crown Heights)
Weekly Story: The Worth Of A Sefer
Rav Yaakov Yosef desired to publicize the teachings of his Rebbe, the Baal Shem Tov, so he wrote and published the sefer Toldos Yaakov Yosef (in the year 5540/1780). Since the entire purpose of publishing the sefer was to spread these teachings, he undertook the difficult task of personally traveling from town to town and selling it.
Shabbos at the Besht: Preparing for Matan Torah
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Avrohom Eliyohu Wudowsky received his Smicha and Dayonus at Yeshivah in Morristown, the Rabbinical College of America, and from Rabbi Dovid Schochat Of Toronto, will lead a discussion on the topic of Chodosh and Yoshon: Where and when does it apply? What is the Chabad Minhag?
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe clapping to a Niggun in 770.
Autism Is No Barrier for Munich Boy’s Bar Mitzvah
When the Diskin family was contemplating a move from the Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y., to Munich in the late 1980s, there was no Chabad presence in Germany, the Berlin Wall was still standing, and they were instructed by the Rebbe’s secretary to get their parents’ permission before considering the move. Thirty years later, Rabbi Yisroel and Chana Diskin speak fluent German, provide for the many needs of the diverse Jewish community of Munich and oversee 19 Chabad centers around the country. The Diskins have also been open with the community about the personal and practical challenges they have encountered during the last 13 years with their youngest son, Zalman, a young man with autism and hearing impairments.
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