California Shluchim Gather for Bais Iyar Farbrengen
Shluchim from across California gathered last Monday evening at Chabad West Coast Headquarters in Los Angeles, California for their annual Farbrengen in honor of Bais Iyar.
8:00pm: What Can We Learn from the Rebbe’s brother?
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 115, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What do we learn from R’ Yisroel Aryeh Leib, the Rebbe’s brother? How Can I Stop My Past From Creeping into My Present? Can a Perfect Life Be Meaningful? How to Respond to Missionaries?
AP: Bus Arson Evokes Riots of 1991
An Associated Press editorial says that the burning of a Jewish school bus by African-American children evokes the tensions that prevailed in Crown Heights during the infamous riots that plagued the community in the summer of 1991.
Israelis the ‘Model of Cooperation’ at Student Robotics Competition in St. Louis
When participants from 11 Israeli high school robotics teams discovered that they would be competing in St. Louis smack dab in the middle of Passover, they had a feeling that Chabad would be able to help.
Police Drop Hate Crime Charges in School Bus Arson
One day after four more juveniles were arrested for setting fire to a school bus parked in front of a Crown Heights Jewish girls’ school, the NYPD has dropped hate crime charges against all of the young arsonists.
Meyer Seewald
Founder of JCW Departs Organization
Five years after he founded Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an organization dedicated to rooting out child abuse in Orthodox-Jewish communities, Meyer Seewald is saying goodbye.
Shluchim to Asia Inspired at Regional Kinus
The 37 Shluchim families from across Asia that gathered this week in Thailand for the annual regional Kinus Hashluchim enjoyed three inspiration filled days. In accordance with the spirit of Hakhel, this year’s Kinus was expanded to include men, women and children. The participants enjoyed Shiurim, workshops, Farbrengens and more.
Rabbi Benny’s Hilarious Torah Thought: The One with Auntie Sara
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Kedoshim. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why is the Torah so severe when it comes to someone having weights or scales that are not perfectly balanced? Aren’t there more grave sins than off-balance scales?
Video: Chasidic Kids Steal Israeli Flag
A group of Chasidic children tore down and stole an Israeli flag that was flying in front of a home in upstate New York. Israelis and many Jews around the world marked the Israeli Independence Day yesterday on Thursday, May 11.
Video: The Power of a Rabbi
Rabbi Fishel Jacobs, known as the ‘Power Rabbi,’ is an ex-law enforcement officer, author and inspirational speaker. Here he performs one of his unforgettable karate breaks, four industrial cinder blocks with his head!
New Engagement!
Refoel Yehuda Polter (Oak Park, MI) and Chaya Yehudis (bas R’ Velvel) Oster (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Moshe Rosner (Postville, IA) and Naomi Wagowsky (Toronto, Canada)
In an unusual twist, New York City is actually trying to return money to motorists who were issued illegal $165 parking summonses.
City to Refund Illegitimate Tickets
In an unusual twist, New York City is actually trying to return money to motorists who were issued illegal $165 parking summonses.
Former Choir Boy Turns Chabad Campus Rabbi
During a two-week period several years ago, Matthew Devlin felt hopeless. The 18-year-old came to rest his head one night on a table in a Manhattan Starbucks. Waking up from a deep sleep, he met a Chabad teen who told him that there was a place called “770,” where he could find some help. At the time, Devlin, who has a Jewish mother and a Catholic father, didn’t know that he was a Jew. But figuring he had nothing to lose, he used his last Metrocard swipe to travel south to Brooklyn.
Shabbos at the Besht: How’s That Supposed to Make Me Feel?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motty Lipskier, director of The Beis Medrash of Crown Heights, will lead a discussion on the topic – how’s that supposed to make me feel?
Weekly Story: Yechidus Is No Simple Matter
Related the Rebbe Maharash: “In general, it is recommended to go to sleep lying on one’s left side and wake up on the right side. While most people can simply turn over in bed, it is extremely painful for me to do so. Instead, I wash negel vasser, get up, walk to the other side of the bed, and lie down again.”
Baby Girl!
Mendel and Chaya (nee Alperin) Raskin (London, UK)
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