A terrible crash in Arizona has claimed the lives of two young women from Boro Park; two other passengers were critically injured.
This past Sunday Chabad at the Shore held a dedication ceremony for their newly acquired facility, The Chai Center. Over 250 community members attended the ceremony in which the former church was dedicated as a new synagogue and outreach center.
Sichos in English has announced the release of a new Sefer – a state-of-the-art Shluchan Aruch of the Alter Rebbe with side-by-side English translation.
Following a meeting with an alumnus, Rabbi Peretz and Chanie Chein – Shluchim to Brandeis University – got into a taxi cab and were surprised to learn of their driver’s roots.
A delegation of prominent Rabbonim from the Jerusalem-based Eida Charedis visited Kfar Chabad today to inspect its renowned esrogim orchard, which bears their kosher certification. This year, the orchard was declared ‘Hefker’ (ownerless) in accordance with the laws of Shmittah.
Rabbi Avrohom Yitzchok Prudenshedsky, a Chabad Shliach in the Israeli Moshav of Ganei Yochanan, could not believe his eyes: after mistakenly leaving his Tefillin in the sunlight for two hours, he discovered that the straps were not made of leather – as required by Halachah – but of cheap plastic.
Iquitos in Peru is known as the most isolated city in South America. Surrounded by thick jungle, it sits on the banks of the mighty Amazon River. For the first time in decades,it was recently visited by a group of rabbinical students, who were there as part of the Merkos Shlichus Chabad “Roving Rabbis” program.
Campers in the Crown Heights days camps enjoyed a fun day at a water ride fair on Crown Street. Massive water slides, sprinklers and a huge suds baths had children screaming with delight.
The chief rabbi and Chabad emissary of the Netherlands, Rabbi Binyomin Jacobs, says “it is time,” and is calling on Netherland’s Prime Minister to follow the lead of his neighbors and offer an official apology on behalf of his nation for collaborating with the Nazis in the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.
To prepare for a Rosh Hashanah concert, chazzanim from the Crown Heights neighborhood recently put on an educational program in Manhattan for cantors and vocal enthusiasts.
The Kupchin family is sitting Shiva after the passing of their father, Reb Hershel, OBM, at 1650 President St. [between Schenectady and Utica Ave.] Apt. #2C, until Thursday morning. Shachris – 7:30am. Mincha – 7:45pm. Maariv – 8:30pm. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem […]
Lubavitch Day Camp of Monsey completed its sixth exciting, fun and meaningful week of the summer. See the highlights of the week in this video slideshow.
Hundreds participated today in Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah’s first ever Catskills Summerfest in Loch Sheldrake, NY. The event featured a myriad of rides for children of all ages, food and an awesome concert by the 8th Day.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 79, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Elul, Violence and Children, Preventing Pedophilia, Same-Gender “Marriage,” How to be More Organized.
Daniel and Batsheva Goldshmid (Fort Benning, GA)
In recent days, in response to the as-yet unproven accusation that a Jew committed an arson attack that led to the death of an Arab child (which evidence is increasingly showing was in fact a blood libel), Jews on social media have taken to posting a long list of names of Jewish children slain in terror attacks.
In honor of the special day of Chof Av, the Rebbe’s Father’s Yahrtzeit, Camp Machane Heights davened Mincha in the Rebbe’s House, and then heard a nice story about Reb Levik from Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky, a secretary of the Rebbe.
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