This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 134, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What is Yechida? Can Yom Kippur Help Us Conquer Our Vices? Why No Intimacy on “Shabbos Shabboson”? The Meaning of Yizkor; Drinking on Simchas Torah; How Does Joy Nourish Us?
Reb Binyomin Wulliger, one of the elders of the Tzans community in Borough Park, passed away. For many years Reb Binyomin served as the liaison between the Rebbe and the later Klausenberg Rebbe, Rabbi Yekusiel Yehudah Halberstam.
Shneur Volman (Ramot, Israel) and Ita Vogel (Beitar Ilit, Israel)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of Kapparos, Erev Yom Kippur and Yom Kippur for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, October 10, for Columbus Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Hundreds of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jewish community members, visiting dignitaries, and other well-wishers celebrated the opening of the newly renovated Chabad Center for Jewish Life in historic Fort Wood.
The Yahrtzeit of Rebbetzin Chana Schneerson, a feminine role model of Jewish activism and proponent of Jewish scholarship, mother of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and wife of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok, was marked today, Shabbos, the 6th of Tishrei.
With nine people dead, 2 million homes without power, and extensive flooding and property damage from Florida to North Carolina, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries reached out to their communities after the conclusion of the Jewish Sabbath to begin to assess the massive help that will needed. Hurricane Matthew continues to threaten the region with storm surges and torrential rains.
On Friday morning, Rabbi Mendel Deutsch, a prominent Chabad activist from Jerusalem, was savagely beaten nearly to death in the Ukrainian city of Zhitomir. After Shabbos ended, the Shliach to Zhitomir, Rabbi Shlomo Wilhelm, gave an update on his situation.
In this week’s Living Torah, Elie Wiesel, OBM, an author, Nobel Prize laureate, and Holocaust survivor, recalls seeing the Rebbe for the first time, and the profound impact it had on the rest of his life.
Sholly and Rivky (nee Losh) Levy (Crown Heights)
As South Central Florida braces for a brutal direct hit from Hurricane Matthew, Chabad centers from the Sunshine State through the Carolinas are hard at work securing Sifrei Torah and preparing for possible hordes of evacuees.
The moment the train pulled into the station, all of a sudden dozens and dozens of people rushed onto the platform. The villager was astonished and impressed as how these people knew the exact time they should arrive and didn’t waste their time waiting for the train to come.
Shmuly and Chani Rosenzweig (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Mendel Deutsch, a prominent Lubavitcher Chossid and community activist from Jerusalem, was savagely beaten nearly to death by a mob of Ukrainian anti-Semites in the city of Zhitomir this morning.
The Inside Story: A Chassidic Perspective on Biblical Events, Laws, and Personalities Volume I: Genesis hits the shelves of bookstores just in time for the beginning of the Torah cycle. There is a lot of anticipation over the release of this book by the many fans of Yanki Tauber’s acclaimed Week in Review.
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