This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 128, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Can We Balance Fun and Higher Purpose? What is the Significance of Chof Av? What Attitude Should We Have to Jews Marching With Palestinians? Are Garments Anything More Than Superficial? How Important is a Beard?
Back in February, cartoonist Hersh Goldman of Massachusetts drew two cartoons expressing his indignation that then-presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, a Jew, met with and praised one of the main instigators of the Crown Heights riots, Al Sharpton.
Rabbi Bentzion and Chaya Shemtov have joined the international family of the Rebbe’s Shluchim as they open a Chabad outpost for the first time in Sierra Vista, Arizona.
A video of two ‘summer activities’ filmed at two separate Satmar day camps in New York has been making waves on social media. The video shows young campers marching against Israel, and others pelting a car meant to mimic the one driven by the Israeli Prime Minister with eggs.
While the modern legal system has prisons at the core of its establishment, the Torah never features prison as a form of punishment, even as a deterrent. This, because the idea of locking someone up is antithetical to the nature of humanity. According to the Torah, a person was put on this earth for a purpose. Withholding one’s ability to achieve that purpose is the most inhumane treatment they can possibly suffer.
One young chossid, who owned a pair of strong, young horses, heard about Reb Hillel’s predicament. Approaching Reb Hillel, he confidently offered to help. “I can get you to Lubavitch before Shabbos. However, you must agree to two things.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topic of Tu B’Av and Chof Av.
A 62-year-old Lubavitcher man was injured after being stabbed by a man yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’ in Strasbourg, France. The victim was identified as Shalom Ber Levy, who is a longstanding member of the Chabad-Lubavitch community in Strasbourg and father of Chabad Shluchim in France and Israel.
A somber memorial service was held today to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the murder of Yankel Rosenbaum, HYD, who was stabbed to death shortly after the Crown Heights Riots broke out in the summer of 1991.
The Talmud states: “Never were there more joyous days for the Jewish People than the 15th of Av and Yom Kippur,” listing five or six joyous events that occurred on 15 Av throughout history. But what is it about the energy of the 15th of Av that attracts so much joy?
Friday, Erev Shabbos Nachamu. The Shabbos before the historical European Kinnus Hashluchim that will begin on Sunday Official Kinus photographer Itzik Roitman presents his first gallery of the beautiful Marina Roscha Shul. Home to a large Prayer Hall with many minyanim, stunning mikva, and spectacular restaurants, all in the authentic Erev Shabbos atmosphere of Jewish Moscow.
Meir Shlomo and Nechama (nee Drizin) Berenshtein (Crown Heights)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe under the Chupah, listening to the reading of the Kesubah and wishing the chosson and kallah mazel tov, circa mid 1950s.
As we approach Tu B’Av, an auspicious day for Shidduchim, we present a letter from the Rebbe on that subject. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Accosted. That was the word that came to Phil’s mind when the three bearded jacketed Rabbis approached him. “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” they asked.
In a letter sent to his family from Federal prison, Sholom Rubashkin expressed support and encouragement for the effort to unite members of the community to have a Sefer Torah written in his merit.
Bais Rivkah Day Camp ended off an incredible eight weeks of a “Hakhel summer” with a barbeque lunch for mothers and daughters.
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