Miami’s Lubavitch Educational Center in Lockdown
Lubavitch Educational Center, South Florida’s flagship Chabad school, is currently in precautionary lockdown as police pursue armed gunmen after a dramatic car chase ended in the vicinity.
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Eber’s Tishrei Liquor and Wine Sale
European Jewish Teens Unite for Electrifying Shabbos
Imagine a roomful of more than two hundred Jewish teens, gathered from more than twenty cities and six countries across Europe to spend a meaningful, uplifting Shabbos together. Imagine all the languages they are speaking. The sounds. The singing. Old friends meeting again. New friendships just beginning.
Dennis Prager Honored at Chabad of the Conejo Gala
Some 500 friends and supporters of Chabad of the Conejo came together on Thursday, May 26, 2016, to celebrate the organization’s annual Gala Banquet. The dinner portion of the evening – which was called for a separate time from the program itself – featured world class cuisine served via buffet tables and carving stations spread throughout the expansive and artistically-decorated foyer of the five-star Four Seasons Westlake Hotel.
Baby Girl!
Moishe and Mushkie (nee Fine) Shemtov (Crown Heights)
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Mrs. Rivky Berman, 29, OBM
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Mrs. Rivky Berman, OBM, daughter of Connecticut Shluchim Rabbi Yisroel and Vivi Deren. She was 29 years old.
Photos by Esther Malka Levertov / Nachas Photography
Camp Fund Holds Charity Auction
The Keren Avraham Eliezer Camp Fund – in memory of Hatomim Avremi Goldman HYD – hosted a Chinese Auction in Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Crown Heights on Sunday, with hundreds in attendance. At the event the lucky winners of some 80 fabulous prizes were drawn.
Baby Girl!
Shloime and Chaya Nelken (Crown Heights)
Gad Elbaz Surprises Thousands at Lag Ba’omer Rally
Thousands of students from schools across South Florida; from Miami to Palm Beach, came together in unity for an amazing program hosted in the Hard Rock Live Arena in Hollywood, FL, organized by Rabbi Shmuly Gutnick of Chabad Youth Network of Florida.
New Engagement!
Dani (Daniel) Bronstein (Teaneck, NJ) and Chani (bas Aaron Leib) Raskin (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Boruch Zelouf (Philadelphia, PA) and Chaya Mushka Hellinger (North Miami Beach, FL)
8:00pm: Why Are Some People Born with Physical Disabilities?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 117, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Are Some People Born with Physical Disabilities? Does The Torah Discriminate Against Them? What’s The Secret to Aging with Dignity? How Can We Know if Passion Is Being Channeled Properly?
New Engagement!
Mendel (ben Shlomo) Galperin (Crown Heights) and Chyena Gansburg (Coconut Creek, FL)
Pretoria Smichah Students Enjoy Safari Trip
At Yeshiva LeRabbonus Pretoria, the South Africa smichah program under Rabbi Gidon Fox, students have recently finished an amazing zman that included relevant classes in chasidus by Rabbi Yosef Kesselman and Shulchan Oruch Yoreh Deah with real life application by Rabbi Chaim Finkelstein, the Rosh Yeshiva.
Alternate Side and Meter Rules Suspended Monday
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 30, for Memorial Day.
Picture of the Day: A Challah for #1
On Friday, May 27, Mr. Harry Triguboff was officially named the richest man in Australia by the Business Review Weekly. As he does every Friday, Rabbi Dovid Slavin, director of Our Big Kitchen, visited Mr. Triguboff in his Sydney office to deliver fresh Challah for Shabbos. This week, however, the Challah was braided in a unique shape to celebrate the occasion.
8-Year-Old Brings Gun to Crown Heights School
On Friday morning, an 8-year-old student of The Albany Avenue School (P.S. 91) in Crown Heights, which is located across the street from Lefferts Park, brought a loaded handgun to school, prompting an emergency police response.
Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought: The One With the Yiddish Speaker
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Behar. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah first command us to agriculturally rest on the seventh sabbatical year, only afterwards telling us about working the land during the preceding six years? Shouldn’t the order have been reversed?
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