Yitta Miriam, 26, is one of the ten siblings. She is one of Rav Vozner’s granddaughters and has much perseverance and Emunah. Like any birth of a child, her arrival brought joy and light into the world. However these were not regular circumstances.
Once a year, Warren Buffett—known as the “Oracle of Omaha” for his investment choices and business acumen—holds an enormous event for company shareholders in his Nebraska hometown. It draws men and women from all over the world, though this year, there was an added nuance for Jewish participants as they maneuvered to get to the middle of the United States.
Today, Bais Iyar, marks the 182nd birthday of the Rebbe Maharash, who was born in the town of Lubavitch in 1834, the youngest son of the Temach Tzedek. In honor of this day, we present to our readers the first chapter of the long awaited biography of the Rebbe Maharash by the noted Chabad author, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Avtzon.
In his latest monthly segment of Rosh Chodesh with Reb Lipa, singing star Lipa Schmeltzer paid a visit to Crown Heights, “a place where you can hear wisdom and catchy melodies, and check out the spot where the tastiest gefilte fish is produced.”
A peaceful morning stroll by a group of elderly Jewish women on a promenade overlooking sweeping vistas of Jerusalem quickly devolved into a bloody nightmare, when two young masked Palestinian terrorists stalked and stabbed two of the octogenarians in their backs.
A secular Israeli bus driver assaulted an Orthodox-Jewish passenger and shouted “we must kill all the Dossim!” – a pejorative term used to refer to Haredim in Israel – after falsely accusing him of not having paid the bus fare. It was the third such attack in as many days.
Nearly 200 Jewish passengers were singled out and removed from an EasyJet flight from Barcelona, Spain, to Paris, France, last week. The travelers, who were mostly returning home from Passover vacation spent in Spain, were escorted off the flight by Spanish armed police officers.
Chabad Shliach and activist Rabbi Yaakov Gloiberman, director of the organization Yad B’Yad, met with Israel’s highest-ranking police officer, Inspector General Roni Alshich, with whom he shared a warm embrace.
Shluchim from the Scandinavian countries gathered this weekend in Stockholm, Sweden, for a regional Kinus, which has become a tradition over the last three years. The guest of honor at the kinus was Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, the vice chairman of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch.
The proud parents and grandparents of the students of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s Pre-1A gathered to celebrate the Talmidim’s Siddur party.
A group of talented students at the Yeshiva in Wilkes-Barre, PA, created this video showing how routine sounds can be utilized to make artificial ‘Sefirah Music.’
Hundreds gathered in Illford and Stamford Hill, London, to partake in the Levaya of Rabbi Moshe Muller OBM, a Shliach and father-of-eight young children who suddenly passed away Sunday.
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.
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.
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