
Music Video: We Are a Miracle
“Yesterday, Tisha B’av, I was sitting on the floor reading about the horrors and suffering of our nation. It’s been so many years crying so many tears,” writes Jewish music star Yaakov Shweky.
“Yesterday, Tisha B’av, I was sitting on the floor reading about the horrors and suffering of our nation. It’s been so many years crying so many tears,” writes Jewish music star Yaakov Shweky.
Where were these dignitaries in the war, when Jewish families were being annihilated? 220 boys in an orphanage are on strike. They refuse to acknowledge the benefactors and dignitaries on stage, until a survivor like themselves comes on stage and can’t even speak through his tears.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 127, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Can Women Understand Chassidus Like Men? Are We Supposed to Love Criminals? Is Lashon Hara Really Like Murder? What Do We Learn from a Tisha B’Av Nidche? What Feasible Measures Can Parents Take to Prevent Child Abuse?
Watch this fascinating and inspiring Shiur on Tisha B’av by renowned lecturer and educator Rabbi Naftali Silberberg, courtesy of The Baal Shem Tov Library.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, August 15, for a Catholic holiday. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
An irresponsible and unthinking individual put others’ lives in unnecessary danger by gluing a piece of paper to the windshield of a Hatzalah volunteer ambulance. The note read: “You are not above the law.”
Sholom and Aidel (nee Raigorodsky) Wilansky (Los Angeles, CA)
In a historical decision, the city government of Bobruisk, Belarus, has granted the local Jewish community the rights to a plot of land with the remains of an old synagogue in the city center last week.
Mendy and Miri (nee Schtroks) Levin (Crown Heights)
Binyomin and Rivka (nee Kashanian) Lifshitz (Crown Heights)
District professionals are by now accustomed to the daily throng of food trucks that lines the city streets, from Farragut Square to the National Mall. But on July 5, among the hot dogs and Greek gyros, the lunch-goers were presented with a new option: DC’s first full-time kosher food truck.
Campers of Machne Mamosh Day Camp put on Tefillin with a Jewish man they encountered while on Mivtzoim in Flatbush today, Friday.
One night Napoleon was travelling in his coach, when he heard cries and lamentations that pull at ones heart. Feeling sorry for the terrible misfortune that this family or group suffered, Napoleon thought that perhaps he, the powerful Emperor could help alleviate some of their suffering. So he ordered his driver to stop driving and he got out of the coach.
Jews around the world are encouraged to join TorahForSholom, a special Torah in the merit of the release of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin.
With the heat index expected to rise above 100 degrees through the weekend, Mayor Bill de Blasio today urged New Yorkers to take precautions to protect themselves and help others who may be at increased risk from the heat, including vulnerable individuals such as seniors and those with chronic health problems.
Mendy Mishulovin (Beitar Illit, Israel) And Rivki Gurevich (Migdal Haemek, Israel)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe greeting someone at a Farbrengen, circa mid-1970s. Photo courtesy of the Algemeiner Journal.