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.
Doug Ross is the chairman of Birthright Israel’s Atlanta Regional Council and serves on the national board of the Birthright Israel Foundation, and he’s active in AIPAC because he sees the combination of the United States, Israel and the Jewish people as “the greatest force for good in the world.” But for much of his life, Ross told an Atlanta audience at Chabad-Intown’s first ‘Big Wrap,’ he has hidden his Judaism.
Despite relatively steady rental prices in Brooklyn overall, Crown Heights rents jumped almost 8 percent last year, a new real estate report found.
A Manhattan Chabad rabbi found himself the victim of vandalism this past Sunday night when he discovered that the mezuza had been ripped from the door leading into his apartment.
Taking the time to meet with local news outlets, the new Commanding Officer of the 71st Precinct, Deputy Inspector Norman Grandstaff, introduced himself and answered questions about his plan and outlook for Crown Heights.
Zalmi Gansbourg (Crown Heights) and Zeldy Glassner (Montreal, Canada)
It seemed like routine fire, in a non-descript little apartment in Brooklyn, but what firefighters found was anything but routine.
Daylight Savings Time begins on Motzai Shabbos and we ‘spring ahead’ – at 2:00am it will become 3:00am, taking away an hour of sleep.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Zalman Goldberg, renowned lecturer and director of gotbitachon.com, will lead a discussion on the topic – do wealthy people also need bitachon?
Next Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, the 76th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s dramatic rescue from a burning Warsaw and his arrival in America. “America Iz Nisht Anderish” was the Frierdiker Rebbe’s statement upon his arrival in America.
Spending Purim with the Rebbe was always a memorable experience. From the reading of the Megillah to the general atmosphere which prevailed, the Rebbe uplifted the Chassidim throughout.
Jewish youth from the Russian city of Samara attended an Enerjew Shabbaton last weekend, led by local Shliach Rabbi Shlomo Deutch. Enerjew is the teen division of Chabad of the Former Soviet Union.
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