The story I would like to relate concerns my father, Sam Moss, more than me. My father was born in Munkatch, Czechoslovakia, what is now Mukachevo, Ukraine. There he attended the yeshivah of Rabbi Chaim Elazar Spira, author of Minchas Elazar, who was the Munkatcher Rebbe.
Mordechai and Chana Lightstone (Crown Heights)
Mendel Grossbaum (Livingston, NJ) and Gitty Friedman (Florida)
Eli and Mushkie (nee Andrusier) Posner (Cooper City, FL)
JLI presents its unique new two-minute video featuring a powerful and relevant In·sight from Ethics of the Fathers, on A World of Metaphors and Why the Jewish sages looked to animals for life lessons.
A campaign titled “Ecole Juive Pour Tous” which translates to “Jewish School for Everyone” was recently launched by the Shneor School in Aubervilliers, France, attracting many Jewish boys and girls to attend a Jewish school. Its recently completed first year is being billed a major success.
What has become an annual event for the eighth grade of Oholei Torah, is the Father and Son day in Yeshiva. This year’s event was held this past Sunday.
On Sunday 28 Iyar, talmidim of Cheder Menachem Los Angeles, together with their parents, grandparents, relatives and friends gathered together to mark the culmination of over two months of learning Mishnayos and Tanya Baal Peh, as a present to the Rebbe in honor of Yud Alef Nissan.
Aiden Axler of Highland Mills understands that reaching the milestone of celebrating Bar-Mitzvah means contributing to the world on a larger level.
Chairman of Chabad in Australia’s Capital, Canberra, Rabbi Shmueli Feldman, had an important meeting with the Ambassador of Germany to Australia, Dr Anna Prinz.
Fifty-one years after the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces entered the gates of the Old City of Jerusalem, reunifying the holy city after almost two decades of Jordanian occupation, the United States of America officially moved its embassy to Israel’s capital city. The move, a perennial presidential campaign promise supported by U.S. leaders on both sides of the aisle for decades, was announced by President Donald J. Trump in December, 2017. The opening took place today in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Israel David M. Friedman, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and American and Israeli dignitaries.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 213, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: My Teenage Friends Are Drowning: What Can We Do? How to Deal with Religious OCD? Are We Sure That Everyone Has a Soulmate? How to Educate Children About Intimacy? How Do We Explain the Words in Tanya That One Has to Let Go of Everything, Including Wife and Children, for G-d? Chassidus Applied to Shavuos.
Conservative Talkshow host Mark Levin, who was at the Kotel today marking Jerusalem Day and attending the opening of the United States Embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, put on Tefillin at the local Chabad Tefillin booth.
Shuls in Crown Heights all hosted an appeal for Hatzalah of Crown Heights to help cover the immense cost of running their life-saving operations.
Each Wednesday French Bochurim who reside in Crown Heights get together in 770 for an Achdus Shiur, and on the occasion of Lag BaOmer they hosted a barbeque and Farbrengen.
Marking Lag BaOmer, several thousand children gathered to celebrate this auspicious date. The full day event was organized by “Torah Land”, and its director Rabbi Yona Attal.
Cheder at the Ohel had a beautiful Lag Ba’Omer celebration. The boys all made posters and marched in the street and through the park with police escorts. A nice group of parents joined the march as well.
