College Students Uplifted at Miami Torah Experience
The 7th annual Miami Torah Experience took place in North Miami Beach, Florida Dec 23-Dec 31, 2015 with over 20 participants from various universities worldwide.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique collection of photos of the Rebbe seeing off a group of Talmidei Hashluchim, circa 1962.
Letter & Spirit: Basic Points in Chassidus
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, in honor of Chof Daled Teves – the Alter Rebbe’s Yahrtzeit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he briefly explains a few basic points of chassidus. 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.
Corner of Albany and St. Marks, where the crime occurred.
27-Year-Old Shot Dead Near ‘Albany Houses’
An early morning shooting in Crown Heights left a 27-year-old African-American man dead. The incident occurred near the ‘Albany Houses,’ notorious for being hotbeds of crime and gang activity.
Boro Park Marks Yahrtzeit of ‘Baal Hatanya’
Members of the Boro Park Jewish community gathered last night to mark the yahrtzeit of the Alter Rebbe, or as he is known to them – the Baal Hatanya, who passed away on 24 Teves in 1813.
The Sara and Morris Tugman Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, MI.
Michigan Head Shliach to Supreme Court: Chabad Essence Is Hierarchical Authority
After losing an appeal to Michigan’s Supreme Court last May, which dismissed his lawsuit against the Bais Chabad Torah Center in West Bloomfield, Rabbi Berel Shemtov has filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court in a last-ditch attempt to gain possession of the deed to the recalcitrant Chabad center.
Crown Heights Rallies Together for Couple’s Wedding
The Kallah was from far-off Chicago, the Chosson a student at Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah for Ba’alei Teshuvah. Most expected theirs to be a small wedding, with only a few family members and friends in attendance. Instead, the wedding hall was packed to capacity, and attendees said it was one of the most joyous weddings to take place in Crown Heights in years.
Baby Boy!
Tzvi and Pearl Rimler (Crown Heights)
Mixed Reaction to H&M ‘Talis’
Swedish international apparel chain H&M received mixed reviews on social media for offering a scarf for purchase that looks like a Jewish prayer shawl, also known as a tallit.
Video: Suspect Denies He Murdered Rabbi Raksin
Miami Police and prosecutors say Deandre Charles is a cold-blooded killer who shot Rabbi Joseph Raksin – who was visiting from Crown Heights, Brooklyn – after trying to rob him and getting away with nothing. But during two interrogations with police that were released through court discovery, Charles is heard maintaining his innocence in multiple interviews with detectives.
Head Shliach Sues Miami Beach over Parade Tickets
Rabbi Avraham Korf, the Head Chabad Shliach to the state of Florida, is suing the city of Miami Beach after the annual Chanukah parade he organizes every year was shut down by police, with 30 tickets cited to participants.
Father of 4 Critical After Mysterious Head Injury
A Frum father of four from Melbourne, Australia, is fighting for his life after suffering critical head injuries in a mysterious incident in the middle of the night at an area Country Club.
Here’s My Story: A Successful Conference
Sam Orelowitz was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August of 2014.
Entrance to the Gross-Rosen concentration camp, of which Waldenburg was a subcamp.
Holocaust Survivors Reunited at Chabad House
Nearly 74 years ago, a pair of young Jewish women left their hometown in southwest Poland, on a transport to a Nazi concentration camp. Both survived the Holocaust, but went their separate ways after World War II.
The Jewish Week
Video: Change the World
Lubavitcher filmmaker Menachem Weinstein stopped random people on the streets of New York City to find out if they were willing to do something to change the world.
Manhunt for Tel Aviv Terrorist Enters Sixth Day
A manhunt for the suspect in a Tel Aviv shooting attack moved beyond the Tel Aviv area on Wednesday, as Palestinian Nishat Milhem evaded security forces for the 6th straight day.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With King Phar-Phar
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Va’eira. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why didn’t Pharaoh’s magicians show up to challenge Moses and Aaron during the sixth plague of boils? What special act did Moses do to totally baffle and silence them? And what lesson do we learn from it in our lives?
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