After years of intensive efforts and rigorous searching, Melbourne’s Chabad Youth is set to purchase their very own campsite. The new campsite, nestled in Victoria’s Great Dividing Range between Mt. Hotham and Mt. Bright, will serve as a multi-purpose facility – a home to both summer and winter camps; grade shabbatons; community retreats; and more.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of R’ Chaim Hetsrony, OBM, of Raanana, Israel, father and grandfather to a family of Chabad Chassidim and Shluchim in the United States, Canada and Israel.
There are many halachos that pertain to the holiday of Chanukah; comedians Meir Kalmenson, Binyomin Miller and Dovi Spero decided to tackle a few in this video.
As Chasidim around the world prepare to celebrate the Flagship Yom Tov in Chabad, Yud Tes Kislev, a brand new Farbrengen with the Rebbe was released by Jewish Educational Media (JEM).
The students of seventh and eighth grades in Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Montreal assembled in honor of Tes and Yud Kislev as part of the Chayolei Beis Dovid program run by Rabbi Levi Itkin.
Shloimy and Shifra Klein (Cedarhurst, NY)
Shneur Zalman Tarlow (Morristown, NJ) and Chaviva Elharrar (Montreal, Canada)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 141, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Should Spouses Work Together? Is Tanya Racist? Lessons from Pearl Harbor; What Critical Traits Should We Look for in a Shidduch? How is Chassidus Unique in its Approach to Shalom Bayis?
Shneur Zalmen and Sari (nee Hertz) Gansburg (Crown Heights)
Over 70 young people from Russia and the CIS participated last week in a leadership training seminar in Moscow, part of of the School of Leadership program run by Yahad, the FJC’s programs platform.
With sadness we infom you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Mendel Itkin OBM, a much beloved teacher and Mashpia in Sydney, Australia. He was 61 years old.
Noam Cahana, a sixth-grader at Rudlin Torah Academy in Richmond, Va., was very candid about the whole experience, from start to finish. “When my dad first advised it, I was saying to myself: ‘This is something only for Scouts.’ To my surprise, I really enjoyed it.” He was talking about an after-school visit to an elderly residential home as part of a new program called Senior Circle, courtesy of Friendship Circle.
Oholei Torah PTA hosted an all men’s event benefiting their annual auction this Motzai Shabbos. The crowd enjoyed an auction viewing along with a lavish buffet dinner, sushi and wine bars.
With great sadness and shock we inform you of the very untimely passing of Chani Weber OBM, the 7-year-old daughter of Pomona Shluchim Rabbi Dovid and Esty Weber.
Dovi and Yachy (nee Lefkowitz) Reich (Monsey, NY)
In honor of the Rebbe and Rebbetzin’s wedding anniversary on 14 Kislev, this week’s Living Torah program is themed around marriage. In this clip, Rabbi Shmuel Lew recalls that his father-in-law, R’ Zalman Jaffe, tried every angle he could in an effort to convince the Rebbe to officiate at his daughter’s wedding, a practice that the Rebbe had ceased several years earlier.
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