Professor David Kaufmann has been overcoming cancer for over two years. After undergoing a perilous surgery in Texas, he arrived back in New Orleans with his family, finally ready to return home and settle down to a semblance of normalcy. Unfortunately, a nasty surprise awaited them when they walked through the door.
As the summer heat bears down on Australia, a small group of Chabad Bochurim are canvassing RARA (Regional and Rural Australia) in a Mitzvah Mobile, searching for Jewish souls and bringing them the light of Chanukah. Just two weeks into their journey, these ‘roving rabbis’ have already touched hundreds of Jewish souls.
A joyous celebration took place in the Chabad Shul in Paris on Sunday, as members of the community welcomed a new Sefer Torah to their midst.
The singing puppets known as the ‘Bube Myses’ took over a Chabad Tefilin stand in Israel for their latest music video – ‘Wrap Tefilin.’
Levi Mockin (Montreal, Canada) and Rochel Leah (bas Schneur) Minsky (Crown Heights)
Mendy Jaffe (Saint Paul, MN) and Gili Antian (Brooklyn, NY)
Bentzion and Sarah Chaya (nee Bogart) Elisha (Crown Heights)
Yosef Katsev (Morristown, NJ) and Leah Karasik (Crown Heights)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 140, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do We Need to Be Politically Correct and Avoid Controversial Issues? Should We Take Dreams Seriously? What Defines a Mashpia? How Can We Disagree Civilly? Why is Prayer the Primary Service in Our Times? How Are Today’s Religious Hostilities Preparing Us for Moshiach?
In Maariv tonight, the 5th of Kislev, we begin saying Vesein Tal Umotor Livrocho in Shmoneh Esrei. A guide including some of the Halochos regarding this change, and if one had forgotten to make it, was compiled by Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia.
Shmaya and Chani (nee Rabkin) Futerfas (Crown Heights)
A brutal Crown Heights mugger who robbed and shot at one Jewish man, shot a teenaged girl three times at pointblank range when she said she didn’t have any money, and attempted to rob a third woman – all in the vicinity of Kingston Avenue and Maple Street in February of 2015 – was sentenced to 55 years to life in prison for the crimes.
Yonah Elimelech Zilberstrom (Jerusalem, Israel) and Esther Malka Katan (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
A years-long dispute between two Chabad organizations over whose public Menorah claims the distinction as the world’s largest has ended up in front of the Vaad Rabbonei Lubavitch, which issued a definitive ruling yesterday.
This week’s Living Torah program begins with a Sicha about a question that the Previous Rebbe asked by his own Bar-Mitzvah. And ending with a touching story about the Rebbe’s lesson to a young Bar-Mitzvah boy, the program is themed all around Bar-Mitzvahs. In this clip, a beautiful collage showing boys of Bar Mitzvah age visiting the Rebbe before their special day.
Police and firefighters rushed to Kfar Chabad this morning after cars were trapped on roads subject to massive floods. In a dramatic scene caught on video, 8 persons were extricated from the flooding, four of them children.
