Little Rock, Ark., seems like an unlikely place for a yeshivah junior-high school. Yet, September saw an influx of adolescent boys from across the country converge on the southern city with a Jewish population of roughly 2,000 souls.
In his newest music video, titled ‘Avinu,’ Gad Elbaz eloquently and poignantly gives voice to the plea that is in all of our hearts, as we ask for divine protection and the peace that continues to elude us.
A select group of Jewish community leaders and activists, including Rabbi Shea Hecht and Rabbi Yaakov Behrman of Crown Heights, met last week with Brooklyn District Attorney Ken Thompson and Councilman Chaim Deutsch to discuss issues and concerns facing the community on a daily basis.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of Asara B’Teves for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
A father and his son were kidnapped by gunman as they walked together to a Chabad Shul in Venezuela Shabbos morning. The gunman later made contact with the family and demanded a ransom for their release.
A group of Israeli backpackers in Argentina placed a sign in front of a glacier at the southern tip of the South American continent, which reads “Chabad House is our home in Bariloche.”
A brand new Chabad Center was dedicated last week in the center of the city of Vladivostok, Russia which is near the China and North Korea borders.
CTeen – The Chabad Teen Network, and Chasidic rock group 8th Day have teamed up to produce a brand new exciting music video, set to 8th Day’s latest release “Inner Flame”.
Ezra Schwartz HYD was murdered by Palestinian terrorists one month ago and standing in front of a united crowd in Sharon, Massachusetts, his 13-year-old brother Hillel Schwartz lit the Menorah and led the crowd in the singing of Ani Maamin.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 95, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Hair Covering? Inspiring Children; Chemistry in Dating; Is the Rebbe’s Advice Specific to Questioner? Tzimtzum K’pshuto Part III.
Jewish singing star Gad Elbaz performed an energy-infused concert in front of an enthusiastic, sold-out crowd at a grand Chanukah event organized by Chabad of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, under the leadership of Rabbi Shlomo Cohen.
Every day of Chanukah following Mincha, the beautiful menorah in the Marina Roscha Chabad synagogue in Moscow, Russia – a replica of the Rebbe’s – was lit amid much fanfare.
New York City politicians, Jewish community leaders, activists and laypeople gathered for a gala dinner and Chanukah festival, in recognition and support of Chabad’s Jewish institute of Queens, under the leadership of Rabbi Zalman Zevulunov, Rabbi Yitzchok Wolowik and Rabbi Shmuel Kagan.
A friend of the woman who fought off a knife-wielding terrorist who entered her Ra’anana home on Saturday recounted how Dikla Dvir confronted the Palestinian man and shoved him out of her living-room into the clutches of police officers.
While for many Jewish children Chanukah means vacation or wonderlands and Dreidel houses, the little Shluchim in Sumy, Ukraine, had a different Chanukah experience.
Shmuly Lotman (Milwaukee, WI) and Bluma Pinson (Crown Heights)
3
