A group of 115 orphaned boys celebrated their bar mitzvah together in Jerusalem on Thursday, marking the occasion at the Western Wall in an effort coordinated by Colel Chabad, a veteran social services organization in Israel.
Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal doesn’t get much sleep these days, but says it’s well worth it. The community rabbi and head of the Jewish outreach group Chabad in Berlin has been campaigning relentlessly to turn his dream of creating a Jewish campus in Germany into a reality.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday through Friday, April 11-14, for Passover and other holidays. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Responding to an anti-Semitic, speculation-filled article, published by Politico on the eve of Passover, claiming that the Chabad movement is the alleged missing link that ties Donald Trump to Vladimir Putin, The Federalist writer Bethany Mandel takes the liberal news outlet to task for their ignorance and hypocrisy in a piece titled “Who Needs Alt-Right Conspiracy Theories About Jews When You Have Politico?”
Beginning in 1951, just a few months after he accepted the leadership of Chabad-Lubavitch, the Rebbe would Farbreng for his Chasidim on the second night of Pesach after finishing his Seder, usually until around 4:00am. Rabbi Michoel Seligson was privileged to be present at many of these unique Farbrengens, and shares his fascinating recollections with our readers.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 158, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Chassidus Applied to Pesach; How Important are Minhagim? Do Alcoholics Belong at the Seder? Should Spouses Be Impassive to Each Other in Public? What is the Cornerstone of a Jewish Education?
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mr. Henry (Chanoch) Abramowitz OBM, a devoted father and grandfather, and a holocaust survivor. He was 97 years old.
The senior staff of New York’s division of El-Al paid a visit to the Lubavitcher Rebb’s Ohel from their offices at the nearby JFK Airport in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan.
Baltimore Shliach Rabbi Chesky Tenenbaum hosted for the first time ever a Pre-Passover service for members of the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, at Warfield Air National Guard Base in Maryland.
The Yeshiva University Maccabees, currently in Fort Myers for the National Hockey Tournament, visited the Chabad Center of Southwest Florida on Yud Aleph Nissan, where they were greeted by Shliach Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz.
Torah Cafe presents two inspiring videos for the upcoming holiday of Pesach. In the first, former Chief Rabbi of Britain Lord Jonathan Sacks gives a eye opening explanation for the opening invitation to the Seder. In the second, Rabbi Aryeh Weinstein, director of the Jewish Learning Academy at Lubavitch of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, answers the question: Do we need “freedom to do” or “freedom to be”?
Hundreds gathered last night, Thursday, for a Farbrengen in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan, the Rebbe’s birthday, in the main Shul of 770.
The Mayor of Toronto, Mr. John Tory, receives a box of Shmura Matza from Rabbi Yirmi Cohen, after which he returned Passover well-wishes to the city’s entire Jewish community.
CHK, the Kashrus division of the Beis Din of Crown Heights, headed by Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba, released a list of products that are under its supervision for Pesach this year.
Mendel and Faigy (nee Raskin) Jacobs (London, UK)
One year, around ten years after the passing of Malka’s adopted parents and her immediate decision to move as far away as one can, a rabbi showed up in her village, knocked on her door and asked if she was Jewish. “I was shocked,” says Malka, “as I thought I would never be found; but I answered truthfully, ‘Yes.’ But then I asked him, ‘How do you know?’ He told me that he has a small package containing matza for me from the Rebbe.”
The Lubavitch community of Paris gathered last night at the Beis Chaya Mushka girls’ school for a Farbrengen marking the 115th anniversary of the Rebbe’s birth, led by Rabbi Mendel Azimov and Rabbi Elchonon Marozov.
