After growing up in what he describes as a “New York Reform Jewish household,” Norman Frankel did not have extensive contact with Torah for most of his adult life. However, after attending High Holiday services at aChabad center near his home several years ago, he reintroduced many Jewish practices into daily living and is now embarking on an ambitious project to study the entire Talmud.
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Shalom and Rochel Leah (nee Cohen) Lipszyc (Crown Heights)
Meet Zeesy, Montana’s Children’s Miracle Network Champion Child for 2016.
European rabbis learn self-defense at a rabbinical conference hosted at the Chabad Center of Berlin earlier this month.
It’s been a few months since Torah Treasure released a DVD. However producer Chaim Hershkowitz is hard at work developing a new video aimed at Chabad children of all ages.
Bais Chaya Mushka of Los Angeles celebrated Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheini in fantastic style with back-to-back Mother/Daughter and Hakhel gatherings.
The Brooklyn D.A.’s Office has dropped hate crime charges against Keny Rochelin, the 26-year-old man arrested for the stabbing of Leiby Brickman in Crown Heights one month ago and another two people in Prospect Park last week, saying the suspect is likely suffering from mental illness and didn’t stab Brikman because he is Jewish.
A Chasidic man from Williamsburg is being hailed a hero after rescuing a 52-year-old Asian woman who attempted to jump off from the Brooklyn Bridge Monday morning, witnesses said.
Close to 3,000 people turned out at Ateres Chaya on Motzei Shabbos for a dinner honoring over twenty dozen Orthodox Jewish men and women who donated kidneys through Renewal, a nonprofit organization dedicated to assisting people suffering from various forms of kidney disease.
Chasidic Jews in the Montreal borough of Outremont are left wondering whether they will be able to celebrate Purim as usual this year, after the borough began to enforce an ordinance banning a cherished Purim tradition.
Be inspired by this powerful ballad, originally performed by Shuki Sadon and composed, produced, and arranged by Udi Damari, truly reflects the resilience and hope we have as a united people during these difficult times. The Blue Melody orchestra and Benny Friedman came together to bring you this emotional and stirring rendition of “Libi.”
It took 10 years, but a small but dedicated group in Kingston, N.Y., recently completed the study of the entire Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, the popular abridgement of the “Code of Jewish Law” authored by Rabbi Shlomo Ganzfried, the 19th-century rabbi of Ungvar, Hungary (now Uzhgorod, Ukraine).
Yisroel Boruch Lebenholc (Melbourne, Australia) and Brocho Aron (Melbourne, Australia)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 107, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Does G-d Need Us? How Did the Rebbe Address Disagreements? Why Does Chabad Make Such a Big Deal of the Rebbe? Women Contn’d; Is Resignation or Berating Oneself Ever Acceptable?
For 55 years, Albert Rosa would not speak about the Holocaust. Eventually, his grown children convinced him to share his story, and when told publicly, the 91-year-old’s account of fighting and survival captivates and inspires those who hear it.
Shmuly Lang (Crown Heights) and Rochel Leah Scheinfeld (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Ari and Mushkie Rubin have been appointed as the new RARA Shluchim to Northern Queensland Australia. They will be opening a chabad house to service the local Jewish communities residing along the coast off the famous Great Barrier Reef, as well as the many tourists who flock to this beautiful part of the world.
