Lubavitch World Headquarters-770 was packed this morning with Shluchim who arrived for the annual Kinus. Minyanim began at daybreak, and continued on until noon, both in the main Shul downstairs and in the Rebbe’s study.
Yesterday, famous Israeli winemaker Gilad Flam of Flam Winery visited the Crown Heights home of Lubavitcher winemaker Joseph Zakon, when the importance of putting on Tefilin became the main topic.
Some 75 young Chabad couples were appointed emissaries to communities around the globe over the past 12 months with the intention of cultivating two particular demographics: Jewish teenagers and young Jewish professionals.
On Tuesday, 21 Cheshvan, Rabbi Yitzchok Dovid Grossman spoke to the Chaya Aydel Seminary students in Hallandale Beach, Florida.
Jewish Community Watch (JCW), an organization dedicated to combating child sexual abuse in the orthodox Jewish community, has announced that Ben Nash, co-founder and CEO of PCS Wireless, has pledged $1 million to the organization. The funds will be used to expand JCW’s budget in line with the growing demands for its services and to set up JCW offices in Israel, the UK, and Australia.
Rabbi Asher Zeilingold has served the Adath Israel Congregation of St. Paul, Minnesota since 1966. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn in February of 2011.
As the International Kinus Hashluchim begins, the Oholei Torah Archive Office is pleased to share the third video in a series of highlights from the alumni reunions held over the past 20 years.
Thousands of Shluchim began making their way to Crown Heights in order to participate in the International Kinus Hashluchim. Registration took place in the JCM and Shluchim seized the opportunity to begin their trip with a visit to the Rebbes Room.
Hundreds of Shluchim from around the world have already arrived in New York for the annual Kinus Hashluchim, and many made their first stop at the Ohel.
Thousands of Anash and Shluchim flocked to Oholei Torah Wednesday evening to celebrate the completion of seven new Sifrei Torah, donated by Mr. Hilel (Leonardo) Farkas of Santiago, Chile.
Several TV networks reported on the stabbing of an Orthodox Jew in Crown Heights last night by an unknown assailant, a story that was broken by CrownHeights.info.
Avi Junik (London, England) and Mushka Rosenfeld (Crown Heights)
The Skverer Rebbe, Rabbi Dovid Twersky, traveled from his home in New Square to Crown Heights to pay a visit to his brother-in-law, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Hager of Vizhnitz, who is being hosted in our neighborhood during a weeks-long visit to the United States.
In the United Lubavitcher Yeshiva, a day like Chof Cheshvan takes on special meaning. Being the birthday of the founder of Tomchei Temimim, the students used this day to gather together and be inspired to recommit themselves to live up to the high standard the Rebbe Rashab expects from his hand-picked Temimim.
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams, accompanied by a litany of New York City politicians and Jewish community activists, held a press conference in Crown Heights in the aftermath of last night’s stabbing of an Orthodox Jew in what appears to be either a terror attack or hate crime.
Moishy Holtzberg, survivor of the horrific 2008 terror attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, India, which claimed the lives of both of his parents, was accompanied by his grandparents as he registered for this year’s Kinus Hashluchim at the Jewish Children’s Museum.
In what is being described as nothing short of a miracle, the Hatzalah volunteer who was rushed to the hospital in critical condition last night after he was stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant was just discharged from the hospital and is on his way home.
