Chabad of East Boca Raton, Florida, which has spent years fighting multiple Federal lawsuits brought by neighbors in an effort to build its city-approved Synagogue and Jewish Center, now faces another daunting hurdle: the passing of the donor who owned the plot of land the center was to be built upon, before the property was transferred to Chabad’s possession.
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50 years ago, in the lead up to the Six Day War, the Rebbe launched his first Mivtza (campaign), instructing his Chassidim to help any Jewish man they meet to put on Tefilin. The merit of the Tefilin, the Rebbe explained, would protect the Holy Land from harm.
Crown Heights Filmmaker Meir Kalmenson relates a story of the Fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, and explains how his name inspires his work.
At a ceremony last week, the rabbi chaplain recently assigned to the Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada honored an American Jewish soldier killed in the line of duty days before the surrender of Japan in World War II, by granting his 72-year-old wish to have a Star of David engraved on his tomb stone, a feature published by the Honolulu-based Air Force 15th Wing website detailed on Friday.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Michoel Atlan, OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights known for his generous heart and acts of Chessed. He was 72 years old.
Some 42 tombstones were discovered toppled over in a Jewish Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York, but police and cemetery managers say it was not vandalism. Despite this local elected officials are calling for an investigation.
A full house turned out for a concert featuring Avraham Fried at the Brooklyn School of Music in Crown Heights.
Zalman Jacobson (Des Moines, IA) and Coty Simon (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 153, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Are Prayer and ‘Tracht Gut Vet Zein Gut’ Compatible? How to Cope with Social Anxieties? Would the Rebbe’s Attitude Toward Secular Education Perhaps be Different Today? Opening “Noah Houses”?
Motzei Shabbos Parshas Teruma, the Oholei Torah Mesivta celebrated a Father and Son Melaveh Malka in the grand Ballroom of Oholei Torah’s eastern parkway campus. A full catered seudah was served.
Friends and supporters of G’mach Keren Yisroel Aryeh Leib turned out for a seudas Melava Malka last night, Motzai Shabbos Parshas Terumah.
It was a rare night out for Jewish women in Abuja. “Spa for the Soul” marked the opening of the newly constructed Abuja Mikveh, with an all-inclusive spa night featuring manicurists, masseuses, yoga and pilates instructors, jewelry designers and more.
In the spirit of Chodesh Adar, the preschool and youngest grades of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva were treated to an entertaining puppet show by master puppeteer Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz and his acclaimed “Small Wonder Puppet Theater.”
Bomb threats made against Chabad institutions, Jewish Community Centers and the ADL have been a weekly occurrence since January, and have been terrorizing communities across the states. An unsealed indictment revealed that the FBI has arrested a disgraced journalist in connection with these threats.
How significant does a donation need to be in order to count / matter? What role do the very small donations play in the big scheme of things? Who really benefits from the donation? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Terumah.
Walking on the sidewalks of Crown Heights this Erev Shabbos you may have noticed messages in chalk scattered around the neighborhood. The messages wish “Shabbat Shalom” and have the time Shabbos starts this week.
While the chossid was thrilled that the Rebbe asked him to do something for him, he was somewhat shocked, as he knew the Rebbe wasn’t a cigar-smoker and couldn’t understand, why from all things, this is what the Rebbe requested. But never-the-less for a chossid to be able to do something for his Rebbe, is the greatest honor, and he readily replied, “I will definitely do so.”
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