A new prayer-room was opened in a Moscow penitentiary last week, the 13th place of prayer for Jewish inmates throughout Russia in the country’s jails and penitentiary systems. The new prayer-room is shared with Muslim inmates, and the opening was attended by the chief rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berel Lazar, as well as chief mufti Izrat Halatudinov, generals from the Defense Ministry and city officials.
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Bentzi and Osnas (nee Grinman) Cousin (Crown Heights)
The roughly 200 Shluchim working to spread Judaism in Paris and its suburbs gathered for a Kinus, where they were inspired, re-energized and uplifted.
CrownHeights.info has obtained surveillance footage that clearly captured the arson incident which occurred in front of Beis Rivkah Sunday evening, in which a school bus was set ablaze by a group of children.
Last week the executive Vaad of Kinus Hashluchim had their first meeting to start planning the 5777 Kinus that will be taking place some seven months from now.
With great sadness, shock and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Rabbi Moshe Muller, beloved Shliach in Ilford, UK, and father of seven children. He was 43 years old.
Levaya and Shiva times in extended article.
A school bus was set ablaze Sunday evening in what witnesses say was deliberately set by a group of children.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 114, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Criteria Should We Look for in a Presidential Candidate? Why Worry About the Election if G-d is Running the Show? How Can I Defeat My Snooze Button? How is Judaism’s Notion of a Leader Different to Other Religions’?
An Israeli firm and a Chabad Shliach in Nigeria are teaming up to build the first Mikvah in West Africa.
Whilst the Northern Hemisphere is gearing up for the summer, in Australia the days are getting shorter and the nights longer as they prepare for winter.
Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip moved closer to war for the first time since 2014, as terrorists fired several rockets and mortars into Israel from the Palestinian territory.
A group of teenagers was acting rowdy and throwing rocks at people on Eastern Parkway. One of the teens was confronted by a Jewish man, who restrained him after he punched him in the face.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Acharei Mos. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why would the High Priest remove his dazzling clothes and put on simple, white clothing for his holiest moment of Divine service on Yom Kippur?
In the summer of 2014, Chana Gopin, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary in Lugansk, Ukraine, sat down to write the 150th editor’s letter of The World of the Jewish Woman, a monthly Russian-language magazine she founded 15 years earlier.
Mendy and Sarale (nee Kravitsky) Blau (Crown Heights)
You’ll soon be charged for every plastic bag you use at the grocery store: the New York City Council has approved a mandatory five-cent fee on all plastic shopping bags, and Mayor Bill de Blasio has pledged to sign the initiative into law.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Binyomin Kriegsman, will lead a discussion on the topic – wearing a watch on Shabbos.
