Baby Girl!
Mendy and Chaya (nee Goldberg) Wenger (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Moish And Devorie (nee Weiss) Ringler (Crown Heights)
8:00pm: Do the Rebbe’s Sichos About Television Also Apply to the Unfiltered Internet?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 221, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Do I Need to Say the Entire Kinus on Tisha B’Av When I Don’t Understand It? What Can a Person Do When His Dignity Was Broken in Childhood? Is Trauma a Cause for People Becoming Baalei Teshuva? How to Be a Good Parent? Do the Rebbe’s Sichos About Television Also Apply to the Unfiltered Internet? Chassidus Applied to the Nine Days, 5 Av and Shabbos Chazon; Explain the Berditchever Rebbe’s Teaching That We Are All Shown the Third Temple on Shabbos Chazon.
Ramapo Police Make Arrests in Pomona Home Invasion
A Monsey area family is heaving a sigh of relief as the two robbers who entered their home last Motzai Shabbos have been taken into custody by the Ramapo Police Department.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: R’ Moishe Weiss, 67, OBM
With great sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Moishe Weiss OBM, a longtime resident of Crown Heights. He was 67 years old.
Weekly Letter: Addressing a Business Promise
In connection with the topic of a neder [vow] in this week’s parsha, we present a detailed letter of the Rebbe to a businessman – in which the Rebbe advises on the question of a neder that the businessman made and connects it to other relevant matters of the business. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Cheder Levi Yitzchok Comes of Age
On Monday, June 25th, Melbourne’s newest registered school, Cheder Levi Yitzchok stunned a capacity audience of over 300 guests with a multidimensional display of the rich talents of its primary and secondary students.
Australian PM Bakes Challah in Our Big Kitchen
Friday was grandparents’ day at Sydney’s Our Big Kitchen and Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull brought his 4-yr-old grandson Jack to try his hand at baking challah.
Weekly Story: Looking Forward (1 of 2)
Being that the numerous shluchim and shluchos on campus are preparing for the upcoming year, I am posting an additional horaah (guidance) that the Rebbe gave Malka, which is pertinent for every Jew who goes to college or is moving out to live on his or her own to be conscious of.
Shabbos at the Besht: The Final Word
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Tzvi Rimler, a teacher and lecturer in Crown Heights, will lead a discussion on the topic of The Final Word, A fascinating look into the meaning of Amen and its lesser-known facts.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
Courtesy of Lubavitch Archives, we present a photo of The Rebbe signaling to the crowd to whistle during a farbrengen, late 1960’s.
Developing Our Destiny: Be a Redeemer
A new video series on the topic of Moshiach, titled Developing Our Destiny, designed for sharing on social media was released today. Launched during this time of Bein HaMeitzarim, during which the Rebbe urged us to study and strengthen our efforts to merit the Geulah and the building of the third Beis Hamikdash.
Instant Torah: Journey of our Life
This weekly fast moving — yet inspiring — 1-minute video on the weekly Parsha is created by Yitzchok Schmuckler, a Bochur from Montreal. This week’s video for Parshas Matos-Masei is titled: Journey of our Life.
Baby Girl!
Mendy and Sara (nee Shear) Shollar (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Zalman and Menucha Rina (nee Hecht) Goodman (Crown Heights)
New Chabad House to Open on the Ivory Coast
Debbie Bensaid has lived in the Central African city of Kinshasa, Congo, for most of her life. She was three months old in 1991 when her parents moved to what was then called Zaire to establish Chabad-Lubavitch of Central Africa, growing up blocks away from the majestic Congo River and amidst the occasional civil war. Different, you might say, from the life of a typical Chassidic girl anywhere else in the world. Yet for her, Africa is home.
Grimy Alleyway Turned into Jamaica Street Scene
A movie production crew converted a grimy Crown Heights alleyway into a bustling Jamaica market scene.
