This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 150, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Should be Our Attitude to Horoscopes and Astrology? How to Balance a Public Life with Modesty? I’m Living on Autopilot! Can Illness Truly Be a Catalyst for Growth? What’s the Secret to Inspiring Myself When My Dreams Are All Burned Out?
A cleaning lady was arrested Friday afternoon after her employer recently discovered that she had been stealing from her. Among the items taken was jewelry, cash, makeup and even clothing. Collaboration between Shomrim and local Neighborhood Coordination Officers from the 71st Precinct led to the arrest.
Bob Tennenbaum was 28 years old when he was hired as the chief architect and planner for one of America’s early planned communities, Columbia. A picturesque city in Maryland, Columbia was conceived as a utopia of sorts, open to all, regardless of race, religion, or financial status. Twenty-one miles south of Baltimore, Columbia has seen a lot of development since it was first settled in 1967.
Choni (ben Yossi) Cohen (Crown Heights) and Suki Turner (Crown Heights)
Dozens of Jewish teenagers gathered in Volgograd, Russia, last weekend for a local EnerJew youth movement seminar. The seminar was the first combined event for youth from Volgograd and Saratov, as both of these cities only joined the movement in the fall.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 13, for Lincoln’s Birthday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Jewish communities and leaders from across the United States, including those from the Chabad-Lubavitch movement, participated in the seventh annual Jewish Disability Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
Over 1,000 men packed the Oholei Torah ballroom to enjoy an evening which included a lavish buffet, and a rocking concert featuring Mordechai Ben David and Simcha Friedman – who made his singing debut in the United States – in an event benefiting Keren Simchas Chosson VeKallah and the vital work they do in helping families make weddings.
Every year since 5731 the Rebbe would conduct a Farbrengen to celebrate Chamishah Asar BiShevat. Just in time for this year’s festival, JEM has released the Rebbe’s Farbrengen of 15 Shevat 5741 (1981). Fully restored and subtitled in 6 languages, the 3 hour Farbregen is now accessible to all.
Chanoch and Cherrie (nee Sputz) Bistritzky (Crown Heights)
Levi Groner (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Rochel Nagel (Crown Heights)
B’nei Yisrael sang Az Yashir back then, are the details still relevant today? What are the eternal lessons from this song for our Emunah in hashem? How can we as Chassidim be inspired from the messages of this great song? Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky, Shliach to Doral, FL, shares his thoughts on this week’s Parsha – Beshalach.
Eliyahu Sapochkinsky (Westlake, CA) and Shayna Alevsky (New York, NY)
It’s that time of year again; The CTeen International Shabbaton, the largest youth Shabbaton in the country, is less than three weeks away. What began nine years ago with forty-teens has expanded to 1,516 set to arrive this year, iy’h. When calculated with chaperones, and staff, the number jumps to a whopping 2,034 participants, making this the largest Shabbaton to be hosted in Crown Heights to date.
On 22 Shevat 5748, the Rebbe’s wife, Rebbetzin Chaya Mushka passed away. The Rebbetzin devoted her entire life to the Rebbe and his Chassidim, but her modesty meant that only when the Rebbe began to publicly speak about her, did many begin to appreciate her true greatness. After her passing, the Rebbe urged Chassidim to apply these lessons in their own lives.
After introducing himself, Reb Mordechai handed to the Rebbe the letters that he was given by the chassidim in New York. The Rebbe picked up the letters and Reb Mordechai began trembling. He noticed that the color of the Rebbe’s face was constantly changing from letter to letter. This was a phenomenon that he had never witnessed by any of the other numerous Tzaddikim he had been in contact with and he recognized that this was a different kind of reading that he had witnessed until now by others.
Students of the Yeshiva Gedolah of Melbourne (YG) put on Tefilin with a fellow Jew amidst an anti-Israel protest in the city center.
