In the continuing battle over haredi recruitment to the IDF, extremist members of the Eda Haredit distributed pamphlets over the weekend calling to renew the daily demonstrations against the Rabbi of Kiryat Gat, Rabbi Moshe Havlin, one of the architects of the agreement between the IDF and Chabad over army enlistment.
On his first visit to Belgrade, Rabbi Yehoshua Kaminetsky was stranded. The room he booked was taken, and no area hotel had any availability. With nowhere to go, he spent the night in a hotel lobby, and told himself that he’d never move to Belgrade.
The ‘Talmidim Hashluchim’ of the Lubavitch Yeshiva in Brunoy, France, posed outside the Yeshiva building for a group portrait yesterday, 15 Elul – the birthday of Tomchei Temimim, after completing two full years of Shlichus at the Yeshiva. A new group of Shluchim arrived to take their place before they departed, and will serve for the coming two years.
Today marks the beginning of the 120th year of Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch, which was founded by the fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Schneersohn, in 1897.
Two Bochurim who dangerously darted across Eastern Parkway in the middle of the busy roadway were stopped by cops and issued summonses. The incident occurred Sunday morning on Eastern Parkway near Kingston Avenue. A reader observed two Bochurim run across […]
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 132, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Can We Do About Rising Tuition Costs? How Can We Improve Our Educational Systems? What is the Meaning of Chai Elul Today? Is There a Standard for Applying Chassidus? What Personal Conduct is Appropriate in 770? Why the Need to Break Ourselves Through Avodah?
Asher (ben R’ Yossi) Simpson (Crown Heights) and Devorah (bas Chaim) Drizin (Crown Heights)
Levi Yitzchok Lavner (Toronto, Canada) and Chaya Mushka (bas Yosef Nochem) Friedman (Crown Heights)
The Food and Drug Administration has issues and alert and immediately suspending the registration and authorization of SM Fish Corp. – which produces many seafood based ready to eat products under the brands of Ossie’s and Ossie’s Gourmet. An inspection by the FDA revealed the facility to be widely contaminated with Listeria, a germ that can cause a rare but serious, sometimes fatal illness.
Gavi Schwey (Luton, England) and Mushky Gurary (Buffalo, NY)
This past Motzei Shabbos, over 160 young men and women from Melbourne’s Young-Yeshivah community gathered for a Hakhel Melava-Malka – a third-anniversary celebration of gratitude and support.
Shneor Benyamini (Jerusalem, Israel) and Mushka Dobry (Tzfat, Israel)
Getzy (ben Hershy) Rubashkin (Postville, IA) and Esther (bas SB) Rosenfeld (Zurich, Switzerland)
An explosion rocked a midtown Manhattan street on Saturday night — injuring at least 29 people, blowing out windows and sending scores of panicked pedestrians running for their lives.
In this week’s Living Torah, the Rebbe discusses the founding of the Chassidus movement. How, why, and what?
Eli and Chana (nee Kamnitzer) Roumani (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
There was no room for questions, the Rebbe said to go and he was going to listen. Distressfully, the Chossid picked up his bags and began trekking back on the same road he had so happily traversed the past few days, just now it was with a heavy heart, instead of the buoyant spirit he had before.
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