In two weeks, Monday, 2 Tammuz, hundreds of Shluchim from around the world will be gathering to strategize, enhance, and grow their adult educational activities in preparation for the upcoming academic year.
Enhancing faith is a remedy for eradicating fears. Faith is certainty and fear is uncertainty. Every day of our life we have a decision to make: Which lens will I see the world through? Fear or Faith? Rabbi Pinchas Taylor shares a short parable with universal relevance, emphasizing the importance of feeding our faith.
Meir Kay‘s newest video takes a humorous look at 19 different kinds of shoppers we see every time we visit the supermarket. Let’s be honest, we all do one or two (or perhaps all 19) of these things. Which of these 19 shoppers is you? Let us know in the comments section.
Colorado Springs Police are calling an act of antisemitic vandalism at the city’s Chabad synagogue a hate crime. The incident was captured on surveillance video.
The United Lubavitcher Yeshiva Mishnayos B’al Peh Event took place on Sunday in the Dorit Hall of the Yeshiva. Parents and grandparents came to this grand event to watch with pride as their children were being awarded for their tireless efforts in Mishnayos and Tanya B’al Peh this year.
Many turned out to partake in the Levaya of Mrs. Miriam Tzimmel Friedman, OBM, who passed away on Sunday.
The 18th of Sivan marks the second yahrtzeit of Rabbi Binyomin Klein, OBM, the Rebbe’s unforgettable mazkir, who not only served the Rebbe, but would always be ready to smile and share a kind word with another. Presented in the extended article are several stories Rabbi Klein shared with Rabbi Dovid Zaklikowski of Lubavitch Archives before his passing.
In a moving and impressive ceremony, nineteen students received their Rabbinical Ordination after months and months of diligent study at the Moscow branch of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch, under the leadership of Rosh Yeshiva Rabbi Mendel Goldberg, and head of the Smicha program, Rabbi Dovid Rozenzweig.
German Minister for Foreign Affairs Sigmar Gabriel led Rabbi Yehuda Teichtal, Rabbi of the Jewish community of Berlin and the local Chabad Shliach, on a special tour of his birthplace in Goslar, Germany last Friday. On the tour, the dignitaries visited several sites in the town of Jewish interest, most notably the ancient Jewish cemetery where they recited a chapter of Psalms.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 166, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should We Be as Loving to Those ‘Going Down’ as to Those ‘Going Up’? How to Prepare Children for Summer Camp without Frightening Them? How about Male Infertility? What Should I Tell My Kids about their Non-Jewish Grandparents?
Achiezer and Chana (nee Laufer) Langsam (Crown Heights)
Cooperation between Shomrim volunteers, police officers and the community led to a positive outcome after two backpacks – one containing an iPad – were stolen from Jewish children in the Hamilton Metz Field park on Lefferts Avenue.
Keter, a popular Kippah manufacturer, opened a trendy Judaica outlet on Crown Heights’ Kingston Avenue, and quickly became a neighborhood staple, frequented by bargain-hunters and style-seekers alike.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Miriam Tzimmel Friedman OBM, longtime Crown Heights resident and matriarch to an illustrious Lubavitch family. She was 101 years old.
On Friday, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch and Rabbi Eli Rosenfeld, the head Shliach to Portugal, met with Dr. Carlos Carreiras, mayor of Cascais, a suburb of Lisbon.
It was a hot August morning in Mequon, Wisconsin, when Rabbi Dovid Rapoport completed the Shacharit services in the Peltz Center for Jewish Life’s Chamoy Family Sanctuary and gently closed his siddur. “I don’t mind leading services,” the senior Chabad emissary joked, shielding his eyes against the sunlight streaming across the synagogue, “but some stained glass windows would sure be nice.”
Drinking even moderate amounts of alcohol is linked to changes in brain structure and an increased risk of worsening brain function, scientists say.
