Unfulfilled Commitments Leave Teachers Still Unpaid
Commitments made to Bais Rivkah teachers in the past year have gone unfulfilled, leaving many to wonder if Crown Heights’ largest girls’ school will open on time for the coming school year.
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After the attack, emissaries travel to Kfar Chabad in the summer of 1956. Rabbi Krinsky stands third from left.
Remembering the Summer of 1956
Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, a personal secretary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, recalls the eventful summer of 1956, following a tragic terror attack on the recently-founded village of Kfar Chabad that claimed the lives of five young students and their teacher.
Video: National Jewish Retreat 2017 Recap
A record number of 1,200+ participants concluded five days of immersive Jewish learning at the National Jewish Retreat this past Sunday. More than 150 workshops, lectures, and interactive learning programs were led by leading Jewish scholars from around the world.
Camp Gan Yisroel-New York Poses for Group Photo
As the summer draws to a close, the hundreds of campers and staffmembers of Camp Gan Yisroel in Upstate New York posed for a group portrait, along with the camp’s executive director, Rabbi Avrohom Shemtov.
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Yitzchok and Bina Lerman (Rutherford, NJ)
Gad Elbaz Hits the Streets of Lod – ‘Just Like That’
In an age where weddings have become laden with costly extras, an all new video starring Israeli icon Gad Elbaz puts the spotlight back on the pure, unadulterated joy that is at the essence of every marital celebration.
Organization Helps Women Find Answers in Chassidus
Living Chassidus, a home away from home for women in Crown Heights, began at a Farbrengen in 2012. Mashpia Mrs. Michal Weiss realized that many single women felt lonely and lost in Crown Heights. In search for meaning and purpose, these women were turning to secular self-help books for answers, when the true answers lie in Chassidus.
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Op-Ed: Be Their Parent, Not Their Friend
A parent who functions as a friend is denying that child a functioning parent, says author Shoshanna Silcove in this op-ed she penned for CrownHeights.info.
Video: How Can We Kosher Our Animal Soul?
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Re’eh. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can we Kosher our Animal Soul?
Baby Girl!
Michoel and Rivky (nee Glassner) Goldin (Teaneck, NJ)
From Days Gone By: Young and Old
A reader sent us this vintage photograph depicting a group of Chabad Chassidim from Russia. Can you identify anyone in the photo (correct answers in the extended article), and when and where the photo was taken?
Rabbinical Students Ignite Jewish Souls in Vietnam
From Chabad.org by Menachem Posner: Shmuel Butler just returned from Vietnam. The 21-year-old rabbinical student spent five weeks serving the needs of Jewish expats and tourists, and reports that being in the Communist nation is “like being on a different planet.” […]
Chabad Photographer Tours Jewish Tunisia
Chabad Photographer Meir Alfasi is continuing his tour of the world. His latest stop was the Arab country of Tunisia, where Israeli citizens are not allowed to visit.
Young Jewish Professionals Meet in the Austrian Alps
Another seminar of the famous Bayit organization in Europe was held this month with dozens of young Jewish professionals who enjoyed a unique program and enjoyable weekend at the prestigious Alpen Karawanserai Hotel in Hinterglemm, a gorgeous resort town in the Tyrol Alpine mountains of Austria.
Protesters clash with counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on August 12, 2017.
Op-Ed: There Is No Place for Racism in Chabad
Following the horrific events in Charlottesville, VA, this past weekend, Bracha B. a Crown Heights resident, says she can no longer remain silent in the face of a grave issue within our community.
Curitiba Chabad Honors IDF Soldiers with Medals
Close to four hundred members of the Jewish community of Curitiba, Paraná, in South Brazil, packed the “Buffet Du Batel” hall last Monday evening in celebration of an unprecedented and exciting event commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the liberation and reunification of the city of Jerusalem and the launching of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s Tefillin Campaign.
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