Today marks the anniversary of the freeing of the sixth Chabad Rebbe, the Rebbe Rayatz, from Soviet prison. In honor of the occasion, we present a series of articles from the Jewish Telegraph Agency (JTA) after the 1927 arrest and later release of the Rebbe, courtesy of Lubavitch Archives.
A Jewish woman who was seriously injured by the truck-ramming terror attack in Nice, France, last Thursday has died.
Two IDF soldiers – including Sgt. Shlomo Rindenow, a 20-year-old ‘lone soldier’ from New Jersey – were killed, and three others were wounded when a grenade in the possession of a driver of a light armored military vehicle went off on Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights.
On Sunday, the campers of Gan Yisroel-Montreal were visited by their families, relatives and friends, who enjoyed many fun activities together both on and off camp grounds.
A Jewish deputy mayor in Istanbul, Turkey’s largest city, is in a critical condition after being shot in the head by an unknown assailant.
A deliveryman was struck by a hit-and-run driver on Saturday night in Crown Heights, and remains in the hospital in critical condition.
Ari and Shaindy (Levin) Pinson (Los Angeles, CA)
Dovid Reyder (Sharon, MA) and Chani Shochet (Toronto, Canada)
In an all-too-rare occurrence, parking is abundant on the streets of Crown Heights today, Sunday, as community members travel upstate to visit their children and siblings at the various summer camps on visiting day.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 123, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Is One Allowed to Distort the Truth for Peace? Does Applying Chassidus Rob It of Its Purity? Can People Really Change? What is the Contemporary Relevance of Yud Beis Tammuz?
Eric, the beloved caretaker of Camp Gan Israel in the Catskills for several decades, has an important message to impart to the staff and campers.
JETS (The Jewish Educational Trade School) in Granada Hills, California, has completed its 11th successful school year and the JETS staff, students, and families are left with good memories, life lessons, and Chassidishe values learned and lived together.
A Potential terrorist attack on a light rail train in Central Jerusalem was averted thanks to alert security personal. A Palestinian man in his 20’s was taken into custody.
It is with great sadness that we inform you of the passing of Mr. Dovid Richler OBM of Toronto, Canada, a philanthropist who help build Shuls and Mikvaos in Montreal and Toronto and was the first student in Tomchei Temimim Lubavitch of Montreal. He was 88 years old.
Yisroel Dovid Wolff (Chicago, IL) and Estie (bas R’ Dovid) Feldman (Crown Heights)
A crew of men robbing neighborhood businesses at gunpoint hit up two more spots in Crown Heights, bringing the total number of stick-ups in one week to five, police said.
