Join the Great Lag Ba’omer Parade from anywhere in the world! Here on CrownHeights.info, a live broadcast of the parade will air beginning at 10:00am, courtesy of Jewish.tv. Thousands of Jewish children are expected to gather at Chabad-Lubavitch world headquarters in New York for the monumental event.
The music video, set to a hit song from Shmuel Ungar‘s debut album, shows how Hashem gives us blessings in many different ways – even while we put the work in, the land, the learning, the giving, and everything else we do, we still rely on Hashem.
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents of all ages turned out Motzai Shabbos for the Lag BaOmer bonfire on Kingston Avenue, in front of the George Wingate High School.
A Lag BaOmer bonfire and celebration took place for the 33nd year running on Empire Boulevard, in the backyard of the Horowitz family home. Together, the Horowitz family and Rabbi Nachman Twerskei held their annual ‘Hadlokoh’ of a Bonfire in honor of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai.
On Thursday night, an Orthodox-Jewish father of two was accosted by a pair of teens who robbed and brutally assaulted him outside his home in North Miami Beach, Florida.
Jewish singing star Lipa Schmeltzer finds himself stuck in Istanbul, Turkey, for Shabbos – but not without a Shabbos table, thanks to Chabad.
Leading members of U.S. Congress paid a visit on May 11 to the Chabad House in Mumbai, India. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, New York Rep. Eliot L. Engel and Massachusetts Congressman Jim McGovern were there as part of a bipartisan delegation touring parts of the country.
A Jewish man was attacked by an ax-wielding assailant in the eastern Ukrainian city of Dnepropetrovsk, which was the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s hometown and boasts a sizable and active Jewish population. The victim is listed in critical condition.
The year after the Rebbe added the new Mitzva campaign of Ahavas Yisroel, I had the nerve of asking him, “Rebbe, all the other Mitzva campaigns are practical mitzvos – a practice of a specific mitzva, but this new campaign of Ahavas Yisroel is basically theoretical and generalization without any specific act in mind?” The Rebbe looked very surprised.
Registration for this year’s Parade is the highest ever on record, parade organizers announced today. Seats are selling out quickly, with dozens of schools and Jewish organizations set to attend from across the Tri-state area.
Berel Paltiel (Crown Heights) and Bracha Leah Caytak (Ottawa, Canada)
A man who attempted to violently carjack a Lubavitcher motorist and others in 2014 was sentenced last week by a district court judge to zero jail time, despite facing more than a dozen serious charges following his arrest and an extensive criminal history. A video of the attacker clinging to the side of a taxi as it drove on the highway for nine miles went viral at the time.
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a collection of unique photos of the Rebbe at the Lag Ba’omer Parade of 1976.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Daniel Schonbuch, LMFT, will lead a discussion on the topic: Good thoughts, great outcomes.
Dubi Blasberg (Crown Heights) and Brookie Milecki (Sydney, Australia)
Daniel Messing (Monsey, NY) and Mushkie Rotenberg (Los Angeles/Crown Heights)
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Shloime Schneorson OBM, a resident of Kfar Chabad and Nachlas Har Chabad and son of the noted Chossid R’ Moshe Schneorson OBM. He was 55 years old.
