About 30 people have paid their respects to a woman they never met after responding to a call for attendees for a suburban New York funeral at which no one was expected to show up, reports the NY Post.
Today marks the Yahrtzeit of Reb Zalman Kleinman, a beloved and renowned painter whose works of art expressing the liveliness and warmth of Chasidic life adorn the walls of Jewish homes all over the world.
Nationally syndicated talk-show host Dennis Prager puts on Tefilin at the JLI National Jewish Retreat in Palm Springs, California, with assistance from young Shliach Mendel Mintz.
Chabad Lubavitch of Long Island recently held a kinus for the shluchim and shluchos who staff the 32 Chabad Centers across Nassau and Suffolk Counties.
Some 20 Admurim, spiritual leaders of Chassidic courts, participated in the Sheva Brachos for the son of Russia’s Chief Rabbi Berel Lazar held at the Keter Harimon hall in Bnei Brak, Sunday.
With a new two-track system, catering to children of all academic levels, MyShliach is happy to open registration for the Chidon 5777.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Eikev. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: What is our best protection?
Gan Yisroel West, which opened its doors in the summer of 2008, directed by Rabbi Shlomo Menkes and his wife Aliza, is possibly the most unique and out-of-the-box camp experience out there. Campers get up-close and personal with nature on the beautiful ninety-two acre campus in the hills of central California.
Presented in this album are photos of the Kinus Hashluchim that took place in Russia 25 years ago this week. The shluchim visited the town of Lubavitch, printed a Tanya, visited the Ohel of the Tzemach Tzedek and the Rebbe Maharash, and saw the chotzer of Lubavitch from where the Rebbeim ran the Lubavitch movement for over a century.
Jews from all walks of life gathered in the Beis Menachem Shul of Tannersville, New York for an evening of Chassidus and Nigleh in honor of The Rebbe’s father Reb Levi Yitzchok in the spirit of Hakhel.
Hundreds of Shluchim have begun arriving in Moscow for a historical European Kinus Hashluchim. The Kinus will begin with a trip to Lubavitch, Liadi and Liozna.
People gathered on Eastern Parkway today, Sunday, for a ‘festival’ marking 25 years since the Crown Heights Riots. The event was the first part of a controversial ‘day of festivities’ which was organized to commemorate those dark and tragic days.
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.
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