Live broadcast at 12:30pm: CKids JewQ Championship, where the finalists of Chabad Hebrew School children from around the country will face off in New York to test their mastery of Jewish knowledge. The live stream can be viewed here on CrownHeights.info!
A campaign has launched its second drive to get people to put on tefillin throughout the world. The campaign is a birthday gift for Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, who is about to turn 47. The campaign, being run from March 3rd through March 8th, encourages people to put on tefillin, snap a photo, and send it into the campaign. A goal of 15,000 Tefillin has been set, lets help get there.
A swastika was found drawn on a pillar in the Atlantic Terminal subway station Friday. The drawing of the swastika, a Nazi symbol, comes during a rise in hate crimes in Brooklyn. A recent incident involved the same symbol drawn on a car in Crown Heights.
A new poll taken after Israel’s attorney general announced that he will indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on corruption charges shows that Netanyahu would not be able to form a right-wing government if elections were held today, and that 68 percent of the Israeli public wants him to resign now or after he is formally indicted.
A mixed storm of snow and rain is forecast to hit the New York City area Sunday Afternoon into Monday morning. The storm is predicted to bring dangerous driving conditions and snow accumulation.
Yisroel and Chavi (nee Rabin) Rosenblum (Livingston, NJ)
On Friday, Feb. 22, one week after the attack on their Chabad House, the Hellers were joined by 150 community members, Bushwick locals and visitors of all backgrounds, uniting to respond to hatred with light.
From the entire Oster and Gancz families: Thank you for taking these first giant steps with Arele. As he faces the long road ahead, thank you for allowing him to eventually walk forward on his own, with Hashem’s help. We look forward to sharing that incredible update with you!
We present the Shalom Zochor list for the week of Shabbos Mevorchim Parshas Vayakel.
The Health Department today announced the measles outbreak in the Orthodox Jewish community is now at 121 cases since the outbreak began in October. Of the 121 cases, 31 are newly identified, including five diagnosed in the past week and 26 who were identified retrospectively.
Shmuly and Rachel Leah Lang (Crown Heights)
Peretz and Chevi Lazaroff (Crown Heights)
The Ckids JewQ contestants touched down in New York Thursday for the live game show International Championship. But before that takes places on Sunday, March 3, CKids — the competition organizer — has prepared an action-packed Shabbaton for the final 80 Hebrew School students.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Adel Yocheved Bas Chaya Chana, four and a half year old baby, whos’ family is a member of Chabad in Uzhgorod, Ukraine. She is in urgent need of a miraculous Refuah Sheleimah.
Weekly Story by Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon. Rabbi Avtzon is a veteran mechanech and the author of numerous books on the Rebbeim and their chassidim. He is available to farbreng in your community and can be contacted at avtzonbooks@gmail.com
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a weekly photo of the Rebbe greeting a father and son at a 1970’s farbrengen.
In keeping with the instructions to build a mishkan and cautioning to keep the Shabbos holy: not to desecrate Shbbos, even for the construction of the mishkan, we present a letter from the Rebbe about the very important mitzvah of Shabbos observance.
