Before enrolling at U.C. Santa Cruz, Amanda Botfeld, a Reform Jew from Santa Monica, had never heard of Chabad. “I avoided Jewish spaces in part because I never felt like my level of Jewishness was ‘enough.’ Jewish community events are often intended to reaffirm your standing as an insider; I usually left feeling more like an outsider,” she wrote in an op-ed published by JWeekly. “But Chabad was different.”
Elected officials representing the rapidly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Crown Heights have waded into the growing fight over the redevelopment of the city-owned Bedford-Union Armory. The fight has pitted US congresswoman Yvette Clarke, state senator Jesse Hamilton, state assemblyman Walter Mosley and state assemblywoman Diana Richardson against New York City Council Member Laurie Cumbo.
The Jewish community in Bobruisk, Belarus, commemorated 75 years since the extermination of Bobruisk ghetto during the Holocaust in three days of memorial events that concluded Sunday.
A Chabad center in Woodcliff Lake in northern New Jersey is suing the local Zoning Board, mayor and property maintenance officer two months after the board denied its longstanding application to construct a synagogue on its property, calling the rejection “discriminatory.”
Living Chassidus, an organization aimed at creating a community for women in Crown Heights, completed the 60 Days challenge based on Rabbi Simon Jacobson’s 60 Days: The Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays, bringing the classic holiday companion to life in addition to inspiring themselves and building a new kind of community within Crown Heights. The initiative was so successful, they will be expanding it for the coming months.
Following the stunning election results, which saw the president-elect named as Donald J. Trump in a stunning defeat of Hillary Clinton, she will be delivering remarks in the New Yorker Hotel in Manhattan, which were called for 10:30am EST and are due to start any minute now, and can be watched live here on CrownHeights.info.
Rachel Bicky had jotted down a “girls night out” on her calendar on a recent Thursday night. Her plan: to join other women in Miami for a “Mega Challah Bake” workshop at a Chabad center in the downtown neighborhood of Brickell, where she would learn to properly mix, knead, shape and bake her very own challah while enjoying dips, salads and bread, and learning about the significance of the mitzvah.
Eli Friedman (Upper West Side, NY) and Rivka Orenstein (Crown Heights)
In a jaw-dropping upset, the American people have voted and elected Donald J. Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America.
An election day tweet advocating for religious rights for all minorities, showing a Chasidic man holding his ballot next to a picture of fallen Muslim soldier, has exploded on Twitter, drawing comments from all over the world supporting the message of unity.
A lesser-known Chabad Niggun, ‘Hey Muzha,’ was performed at this year’s Simchas Beis Hashoeva by musicians Yossi Cohen and Yudi Simon, and has been gaining popularity ever since.
Donald Trump will win the election in a landslide, predicts Chaim Ross in this op-ed he submitted to CrownHeights.info. Read further in the extended article to see why.
A massive youth seminar took place in Moscow this past Shabbos, gathering over 250 teenage activists of the EnerJew youth movement together for 5 days of inspiration and learning.
Ballots were misplaced at a Crown Heights polling place the morning of Election Day, prompting numerous people to leave and forcing others to stand in chilly weather for more than two hours as they waited to cast their ballots, according to multiple Twitter users on Tuesday.
Select alumni from the past six decades of the Mossad will be honored at the upcoming Dinner Gala event. Oholei Torah is asking anash for their opinion and vote for someone who they feel is an outstanding alumnus who personifies the ideals and aspirations of the Mossad Chinuch Oholei Torah.
The students of Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim Lubavitch of Montreal gathered to celebrate the Yeshiva’s 75th anniversary with one of the pillars of the Yeshiva – its former principal of 40 years.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Lech Lecha. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one remain optimistic when going through challenges?
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