Baby Girl!
Lazer and Leah Lazaroff from Texas had a baby girl!

Miriam Mintz, 30, Beloved Educator and Just-Appointed Chabad Emissary
An experienced and well-loved educator, Miriam was technically off for summer break, but that didn’t mean she was on vacation. She along with her husband, was preparing to relocate to Baltimore’s southern suburbs, where they were starting a Chabad Center to serve Pasadena and Glen Burnie.

Chabad History With Rabbi Dalfin – Buffalo Cemeteries Including Anshei Lubavitz
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.

BESHT: Preparing for Chof Av
Shabbos at the BESHT: Rabbi Boruch Jacobson is a shliach to Hunter College in NYC. He will be giving this week’s shiur on preparing for Chof Av, 80th Yom Hilula of Reb Levik, the Rebbe’s father.
Baby Boy!
Dovid and Chaya Roitblat from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 622 Empire Blvd

Weekly Story: Are We Cookie Cutters
As we are about to begin a new school year, and teachers had attended the kinus mechanchim or mechanchos, plus many are taking additional courses to improve the skills, I decided to post for the next few weeks some pointers that I learned during the thirty some years I was teaching in the classroom.

Shabbos Kodesh – R’ Yom Tov Ehrlich Featuring Avraham Fried
Watch this remake of the iconic “Shabbos Kodesh” composed by Yom Tov Ehrlich and sung by Avraham Fried.

NYC Breaks Ground on $15 Million Renovation for Brooklyn Children’s Museum in Crown Heights
The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) and the NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) announced the start of a project to rebuild the Brooklyn Children’s Museum retaining walls and to renovate and modernize the organization’s courtyard and terraces.

Weekly Dvar Torah: The Double Comfort of Redemption – From Tisha B’Av to Tu B’Av
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman looks to the moon to discover symbolism to the “time of comfort” that we find ourselves in.
Baby Boy!
Zalman and Brochie Friedman from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 860 Eastern Parkway Second Floor
Baby Boy!
Menachem and Rivkah Mahapour from Crown Heights had a baby boy! Shalom Zachor: 620 Troy Ave (between Winthrop and Hawthorne St)

Yeshiva ‘Chayolei Beis Dovid’ in the Poconos Appoints New Educational Director
Rabbi Menachem Mendel Namdar joins the esteemed faculty of Yeshivas Choyolei Beis Dovid in the Poconos as Educational Director, working alongside veteran educator Rabbi Levi Reices.

Alex Clare Live at the National Jewish Retreat
Join us for an electrifying evening of incredible music and inspiration with Jerusalem-based singer Alex Clare.

Mid-Atlantic Shluchim Convene For Annual Kinus
Nearly 100 shluchim from across the Mid-Atlantic region gathered at Chabad of Princeton University for the annual Mid-Atlantic Kinus Hashluchim. The summit, hosted in the newly renovated Scharf Family Chabad House at Princeton University, brought together shluchim from Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington, D.C.

Weekly Letter: Praying On Behalf of the Jewish People and Oneself
The beginning of out Parsha tells of the many supplications of Moshe, at the end of the 40th year in the desert – praying for permission to enter the Holy Land with his people. On the theme of prayer, we share a letter of the Rebbe in which he discusses praying on behalf of the Jewish people and praying on behalf of oneself – and the connection between the two.

324 Mechanchim Convene for Their Largest Ever Kinus
324 Mechanchim from over 60 schools around the world convened in Tarrytown, NY today for the 24th Annual Kinus Hamechanchim. A collaboration between Menachem Education Foundation (MEF) and the Merkos Chinuch Office, this groundbreaking Kinus is the largest one to date.

What Type of Questions Land on a Rabbi’s Desk? Live from the National Jewish Retreat
Join Rabbi Efrem Goldberg, Rabbi Leibel Schapiro, and Rabbi Yossi Marlow on what type of questions land on a Rabbi’s desk? Get an insider’s look at the profound concerns, uncertainties, and principles today’s Rabbinic leaders grapple with on a daily basis.