Sunday evening over 3,000 Chabad-Lubavitch women emissaries and their guests will join together and celebrate at the annual banquet, part of a five-day International Conference of Women Emissaries. The broadcast will begin at 5:30 PM here on CrownHeights.info.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 101, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Tatty Caught Doing Something Wrong; Leaving One Rebbe for Another; Chassidus and Psychology; The Process of Writing and Publishing Sichos.
How do you pose thousands of Shluchos in front of 770 on a freezing cold night? The Kinus team pulled it off the help of ‘large group photographer’ Chaim Perl and his team.
The Claims Conference, an organization that administers compensation received from Germany for Holocaust survivors, has stopped funding a network of soup kitchens run by the Colel Chabad charity, generating a deficit that threatens to shut down the aid program.
Sholom and Shaina Wilhelm (Crown Heights)
Chaim Yitzchok and Nisel (nee Hus) Vogel (Montreal, Canada)
Last week, Rabbi Mendel Aisenbach hand-delivered several Challahs to three elected MPs of Canada’s new government on behalf of Yeshivas Chabad Lubavitch of Toronto and its Rosh Yeshiva, Rabbi Akiva Wagner.
Thousands of Shluchos posed for their annual group photo. This years photo was taken on Motzai Shabbos in the Union-Bedford Armory in Crown Heights following a special Melava Malkah.
Dovber and Mushkie (nee Schanowitz) Chaiton (Crown Heights)
Levi and Chanie (nee Spielman) Vogel (Crown Heights)
Amid the ongoing debate surrounding the role of women in the military, JEM brings the Rebbe’s words on the topic.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parasha, Yisro. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why does the Torah teach us about the Jewish unity around Mount Sinai, if the Egyptians also had the same type of unity when attacking us for annihilation?
“I couldn’t control my curiosity, so although one is not allowed to question the actions of his Rebbe I said “Rebbe i understand that you gave the daf yomi shiur, even though it was difficult for you, because there is no one as capable or qualified as you. However,when it comes to teaching a Jew the Aleph-Beis, why did you have to trouble yourself?”
Zalmy and Esther Leah (nee Munitz) Pinson (Pomona, NY)
Five miles of new bike lanes and a turn restriction on one of the borough’s most dangerous intersections may soon come to two Crown Heights side streets, according to a new proposal from the Department of Transportation.
Shloimi Gross (Melbourne, Australia) and Sarah Katz (Montreal, Canada)
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Hagon HaRav Yisroel Belsky, OBM, one of the Roshei Yeshiva of Yeshiva Torah Vodaas in Flatbush, and a leading Posek in the United States. Rav Belsky is renowned as one of the most brilliant Torah minds of our generation, with a grasp of virtually the entire Torah and instant recall and knowledge all across the spectrum. He was 77-years-old.
