13-Year-Old Faces Possible Hate Crime Charges for Assault
A group of teenagers was acting rowdy and throwing rocks at people on Eastern Parkway. One of the teens was confronted by a Jewish man, who restrained him after he punched him in the face.
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Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With the Play-by-Play
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Acharei Mos. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why would the High Priest remove his dazzling clothes and put on simple, white clothing for his holiest moment of Divine service on Yom Kippur?
Scene of civil war-torn Lugansk, Ukraine.
Forgotten Refugees, Emissaries in Exile, Jewish Community Holds On
In the summer of 2014, Chana Gopin, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Lugansk, Ukraine, sat down to write the 150th editor’s letter of The World of the Jewish Woman, a monthly Russian-language magazine she founded 15 years earlier.
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Mendy and Sarale (nee Kravitsky) Blau (Crown Heights)
5-Cent Tax on Plastic Bags Poised to Become Law
You’ll soon be charged for every plastic bag you use at the grocery store: the New York City Council has approved a mandatory five-cent fee on all plastic shopping bags, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to sign the initiative into law.
Shabbos at the Besht: Wearing a Watch on Shabbos
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Binyomin Kriegsman, will lead a discussion on the topic – wearing a watch on Shabbos.
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Peretz and Mashie (nee Pewzner) Goldshmid (Crown Heights)
25 Years Ago Today: ‘Do All You Can to Bring Moshiach’
25 years ago today, on 28 Nissan, 5751 (1991), the Rebbe delivered an impassioned talk about Moshiach.
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Chaim and Chaya Mushka (nee Korf) Stern (Miami Beach, FL)
Weekly Story: An Investment for the Future
On his first Shabbos mevorchim in 770, the bochur was sitting in his place before 8:00 in the morning and studying a maamar. At 8:00, a member of the hanhalah came over to him and said, now is time for saying Tehillim. While this bothered him, he dutifully listened to what he was told to do.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique pair of photos of the Rebbe during yechidus, circa 1970s.
Community Member Launches Effort to Help Her Rabbi’s Sick Child
Ask anyone who knows him, and they’ll tell you the same thing: Seven-year-old Meir Samuels has the sweetest smile.
Letter & Spirit: Keeping America Great
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe written to President Ronald Reagan in 1982, thanking him for his good wishes on the occasion of the Rebbe’s birthday, along with a message of gratitude and encouragement to the president of the United States for his efforts in maintaining America’s greatness as a Super Power among the nations of the world. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Tour of Spanish Palace Becomes Impromptu ‘L’chaim’
After their somber visit to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on Monday, some 800 Jewish students from Russia, accompanied by several Chabad Shluchim – including Russia’s chief rabbi Berel Lazar, continued on to Spain, where they visited historic Jewish sites from before the Jews were expelled from the country in 1492.
Here’s My Story: The Eternal Soul
Mrs. Chana Sharfstein is a noted author, educator and tour guide. During March of 2014 her daughter, Zlata Ester, passed away at the age of 53. Mrs. Sharfstein published Zlata’s Story, a book describing the experiences of a mother raising an autistic daughter. She was interviewed in the My Encounter Studio in April of 2014.
Teens Throw Brick at Jew; Flee on Subway Tracks
A brick, aimed at the head of a Jewish bus driver, thankfully missed its mark and instead struck the mirror and body of the bus, causing significant damage. The young teenagers who threw the brick fled into an adjacent subway station and onto the train tracks.
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