When a woman wrote to the Rebbe about critics of the Lubavitch, he responded with what we should answer those critics – of sacrificing one’s own Torah learning and advancement to help bring another Jew closer to Yiddishkeit. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
This Sunday, Devorah Bejamin of KSCVK will be running a $200,000 “Say Yes” campaign to raise critical funds for the many chassanim and kallahs of Crown Heights — enabling more couples to make their weddings a reality.
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Nasso is titled: Using Everything to it’s Fullest.
In a video produced for JLI’s upcoming course titled “What Is? Rethinking Everything we Know About Our Universe”, world-renowned mentalist Marc Salem challenges the norms by asking “how predictable are you?”
After earning a Ph. D. in biological sciences and studying medicine at Oxford, Dr. David Weiss was appointed assistant professor in the Department of Immunology and Bacteriology at the University of California in Berkley. When he took up this post in 1957, he moved with his family to the San Francisco area. While there, he befriended Rabbi Shlomo Cunin, who was the Rebbe’s emissary to California, and believes that it was Rabbi Cunin who brought him to the Rebbe’s attention.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on Parashs Naso. This week he answers the question: What is the Value of Time? – based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Police have arrested Abraham Samotin, a 26 year old Jewish man from Crown Heights, for luring and committing a heinous assault against a 5-year-old girl – the very same day he was released from jail after an arrest for felony burglary.
James Vincent, the man who was arrested in connection with the brutal and hate-fueled attack on Menachem Moskowitz nearly a month ago, was indicted today on a litany of charges including strangulation and assault as a hate crime. He faces up to 25 years in prison.
A construction worker suffered injuries after falling into a hole at a construction site on Carroll Street.
Aaron Feinblum (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Devora Feiglin (Melbourne, Australia)
Anash in Montreal partook in a Kinus Torah on Isru Chag Shavuos, inline with the instruction from the Rebbe to hold such gatherings. Rabbi Ayeh Leib Kaplan delivered a discourse on the topic of Kiddushin.
A man was arrested after going on an anti-Semitic tirade, threatening to “kill all the Jews”, spitting and throwing rocks at Jewish women and children on Carroll Street in Crown Heights.
Operation Survival’s releases children’s safety video, “Inner Voice, Better Choice”, starring popular Jewish singer Eli Marcus, and students from local boys’ and girls’ schools.
On Friday afternoon a number of residents in a Crown Heights apartment building discovered that swastikas have been drawn on the doors to their apartments. The police have opened a hate crimes investigation.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Moshe Shuchat OBM, a longtime Crown Heights resident who prepared the Mikvah the Rebbe used for many years, He was 97 years old.
A new Torah learning initiative was started in the Central Marina Roscha Shul. “Yeshiva Hour” brings together community members, Anash, Shluchim, and the students of all four Chabad Yeshivos of Moscow, as well as the the city’s Jewish University students for three hours of learning together.
