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8:00pm: How Do We Explain the Relevance of Shavuot to a Secular World?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 118, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How Do We Explain the Relevance of Shavuot to a Secular World? How Can I Balance My Talents and the Need to Earn a Living? Temptation: Is Walking with My Eyes Closed the Solution? When, if Ever, is it My Place to Rebuke Someone? Fully Invested or Not Concerned About Parnasa – Which One is it?
Two Arrested After Showing Off Gun Hiding Techniques
Two bumbling criminals were arrested after plainclothes police officers observed them showing each other how to hide a handgun in their pants.
‘SummerJew’ Gets Underway in Former USSR
A unique EnerJew seminar focused on planning activities and special programs during the summer in the Federation of Jewish Communities’ (FJC) network of summer camps across the former Soviet Union (FSU), took place in a Moscow suburb last week. 30 EnerJew activists from 15 FSU cities came together to create a pilot project -” SummerJew” that would integrate the youth movement in sleep-away and day summer camps.
Father of Two Was Murdered over Pair of Sneakers
The Crown Heights father of two who was killed early Tuesday morning on St. Johns Place near Schenectady Avenue was murdered by an ex-con over his ‘Air Jordan’ sneakers, the New York Daily News reports.
Support Hatzalah of Mill Basin at their Auction
In an effort to help mitigate their costs, Hatzolah of Mill Basin is holding their Online Auction today. It is being dedicated in memory of Mrs. Evelyn Racer a”h and prizes include $3,600 Cash, Tickets to Israel, $1,000 to Bloomingdale’s and much more!
New Engagement!
Sruly (ben Yossi) Avtzon (Crown Heights) and Chaya (bas Benji) Stock (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought: The One With the Ferrari
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Bechukosai. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: If the Torah demands a spiritually elevated lifestyle, then why does G-d promise all sorts of physical rewards and benefits for diligent Torah study?
Bochurim Unite Across the World for Shabbos Achdus
In several hours, some 1,200 Bochurim will gather in six different locations around the world, for a global Shabbos Hachana to Gimmel Tammuz – arranged by the Vaad Talmidei Hatmimim. An additional five locations – including the annual National Shabbaton in Israel, which hosts 1,600 – are in the works, to take place in the upcoming weeks.
Student Trip Ends with a Double Bris
Until last Sunday afternoon, Binyamin and Tzvi Hirsh were still Victor and Gregory. Inspired by a week-long Hakhel trip to Crown Heights and the Ohel, they then celebrated their Bris near the Ohel.
Laws and Customs: Sivan and Shavuos
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the month of Sivan and the Yomtov of Shavuos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
French Speakers Get New Sefer Torah
A new Sefer Toroh was completed and dedicated to the French-speaking Jewish community of New York at the CCF center this past Lag Ba’omer.
Weekly Living Torah Video: Crossing the Line, 1961
When Rabbi Yoel Kahn discovered that his Shabbos guest had crossed the International Date Line during the Omer Count, he realized that for him, Shabbos was already the fiftieth day of the Omer, and the festival of Shavuos. Uncertain of what his guest should do, he advised him to approach the Rebbe directly as he left the synagogue following the Morning Services.
Shabbos at the Besht: Shavuos, Iyar and the 6-Day War
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Michoel Seligson will lead a discussion on the topics of Shavuos, Iyar and the Six-Day War.
Op-Ed: The NY Times Can’t Stand Jewesses Bathing in Public Pools
The latest salvo in the New York Times campaign against Orthodox Judaism is an editorial condemning the New York City Parks department for accommodating religious swimmers — and, for that matter any other women who prefer not to be gawked at by men while bathing — by providing women-only hours at a public swimming pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Weekly Story: Ivan the Farmer (Pt. 2)
We continue from where we left off last week, with the second half of the story of Ivan, the young farmer boy who left his small-town life behind and hopped on to a freight train to the big city far away.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during davening, in the early years of his leadership.
