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.
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.
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.
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.
Tzemach and Slava (nee Edelman) Ben Chetrit (Crown Heights)
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.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying Shema during Maariv, circa early 1960s.
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.
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.
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.
The northern Tel Aviv community of Kochav Hatzafon (North Star) welcomed a new Sefer Torah a few days before Shavuos.
Chabad of Marina del Rey, California, recently celebrated a beautiful occasion. Six Jewish girls came together with the help of Chabad of Marina’s Bas Mitzvah Club to hold a joint Bas Mitzvah for all of the girls and their families. As the girls all come from a variety of Jewish backgrounds, it was a great chance for the girls to instill Jewish pride in themselves, and learn more about themselves and what it means to be a bas Yisrael.
Motty and Raizy (nee Konikov) Rosenfeld (Satellite Beach, FL)
An iPad that allows her to express herself verbally is giving a voice to Jordyn Zimmerman, and now she hopes to reach out to others with special needs.
In an opinion piece in The Forward, Loyola University Law Professor Yitzchok Adlerstein points to a 1972 U.S. Supreme Court ruling that affirms the right of parents to educate their children according to their religious beliefs, even if violating their state’s mandatory education standards.
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