Barn Mitzvah: Historic Structure in Maryland to Become Jewish Education Center
Drive down Darnestown Road in Gaithersburg, Md., and in the distance, two white silos rise up like aged sentries guarding part of suburban Maryland’s rural roots.
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8:00pm: If There Was a Pill that Guaranteed Self-Control..
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 119, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: If There Was a Pill that Guaranteed Self-Control.., What is the Virtue of Effort and Taking the Initiative? How Does One Ensure that Spiritual Growth isn’t Compromised During Summer?
The great synagogue of Konigsburg (now Kaliningrad, Russia), seen here before it was destroyed on Kristalnacht in 1938, is currently in the midst of being rebuilt.
Crane Falls at Chabad Construction Site in Russia
A massive crane crashed down at a site where construction workers are building Russia’s westernmost synagogue and one of the country’s largest Jewish community complexes.
Enough with the Gefilte Fish; I’ll Have Sushi
Yes, Sushi, which you won’t find in most 20th-century Jewish cookbooks, let alone the Torah, has become a runaway hit in the city’s Hasidic and other Orthodox-Jewish neighborhoods, reports the New York Times.
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Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Yona Biniashvili, OBM
With great sadness and shock, we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of a father of several young children, Rabbi Yona Biniashvili, OBM, Chabad Shliach in the Beit Hakerem neighborhood of Jerusalem.
Chabad Dedicates New Center in West Orange, NJ
With the snip of giant scissors through a gold ribbon, the Chabad of West Orange’s new home was officially opened on Tuesday, June 14. Rabbi Mendy Kasowitz, director of Chabad of West Orange, NJ, and Mayor Robert Parisi joined others in officially opening the center.
“I Do Not Certify or Endorse the Eruv”
Rabbi Elkanah Schwartz, the Rov of Congregation Kol Israel, clarified his stance regarding the new Eruv dubbed “The Greater Crown Height Eruv” that was purportedly under his auspices.
The New York Times has published a scathing article blasting Brooklyn's Shomrim patrols, painting them as a menace to the non-Jewish residents of the city and questioning whether thy have a disproportionate amount of influence with the NYPD.
New York Times Slanders Shomrim
The New York Times has published a scathing article blasting Brooklyn’s Shomrim patrols, painting them as a menace to the non-Jewish residents of the city and questioning whether thy have a disproportionate amount of influence with the NYPD.
Nazi Auschwitz Guard Sentenced to 5 Years in Prison
A 94-year-old former Auschwitz guard was convicted on Friday of being an accessory to the murder of 170,000 people, according to the judge presiding over what could be one of Germany’s last Holocaust trials.
Crown Heights Eruv Is Up!
Despite opposition from local Halachic authorities, an Eruv has been erected around Crown Heights for the first time in history, enabling Jewish residents who choose to use it to carry and push strollers on Shabbos.
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Tzemach and Slava (nee Edelman) Ben Chetrit (Crown Heights)
Shabbos at the Besht: Why Bug Me About Insects?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Yosef Dovid Chanowitz, a Kosher Field Representative for the OK kosher certification agency, will lead a discussion on the topic: Why bug me about insects? A Halachic analysis on the current state of produce infestation.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying Shema during Maariv, circa early 1960s.
Weekly Story: ‘I Did Not Yet Come Down from the Mountain’
The woman was not from a Chabad background, and didn’t understand why Reb Mendel wouldn’t make a commitment without the Rebbe’s blessing.
Weekly Letter: The Significance of a Mitzvah
After receiving the Torah and our promise to keep its mitzvos, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he explains the significance of mitzvos in general and the mitzvah of taharas ha’mishpacha in particular. The Rebbe points out that every mitzvah has a specific significance in a particular area of our life, and that undertaking to do a mitzvah can have retroactive effect. The letter, written originally in English, is from the archives of the Rebbe’s personal trusted secretary, Rabbi Nissan Mindel.
Rabbi Borenstein’s Class’ Year End BBQ
In what has become an annual tradition for Rabbi Borenstein’s seventh grade class, they all got together in the backyard of his Balfore Place home for a Siyum and a barbeque.
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