This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 160, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can I Help a Narcissist? Can Creativity be Taught? Yom Tov Leaves Me Sleep Deprived! What Happened with the Alter Rebbe’s Son, Reb Moshe?
A fire broke out on the fifth and sixth floors of a large apartment building on Lefferts Avenue in Crown Heights.
Mendy (ben Tzvi) Katz (Crown Heights) and Faigy (bas Kasriel) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
Schneur Weizner (Cleveland, OH) and Chaya Cohen (Cleveland, OH)
Ro’ee is a bright, energetic 14-year-old boy living in Jerusalem. He has dozens of friends at his yeshiva high school where he studies Torah at an advanced level. His grandfather loves to boast about his academic successes. The young man has big dreams for the future and has set impressive goals for himself. But Ro’ee is not your average teenager.
Shmueli Lisbon (California) and Toby Carcienta (Crown Heights)
Meir and Mushka (nee Goldman) Finck (Los Angeles, CA)
A judge ruled on Friday to keep a controversial Crown Heights homeless shelter shut until the end of May to allow more time to resolve a lawsuit against the facility.
An MTA station agent is under arrest after being accused of sexually abusing a 19-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman at the 18th Avenue subway station in Borough Park.
Eli (ben Tzvi) Seewald (Crown Heights) and Batya (bas Moshe) Preger (Crown Heights)
Being that the younger grades of Bais Rivkah are currently undergoing a teachers’ strike, the students of Bais Rivkah’s older grades brought their little sisters with them to school today, giving their mothers a much-needed break to prepare for Shabbos.
As a youngster, when the Maharash would finish his schoolwork before his classmates, he would sometimes take apart the inside of his watch and then put it back together again. These minute pieces are typically only grasped with the assistance of special tools, but the Maharash would manipulate them expertly with his fingers.
Can you eat muffins, cheesecakes, or join your friends in a restaurant and still lose weight? According to nutritionist Tanya Rosen, “Yes.”
Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, Vice-chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch, met with the Shluchim to Poland during his visit to the country as part of a tour he is currently conducting in various countries throughout Europe to strengthen the Shluchim and their families.
Today, 2 Iyar, marks the birthday of the fourth Rebbe of Chabad, Rabbi Shmuel of Lubavitch, known as the Rebbe Maharash.
This Shabbos at the Besht, renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Manis Friedman will lead a discussion on the topic: The false virtue of skepticism.
