This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 85, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines a Chassidishe Person? Do Non-Jews Have a Soul? Lying and Trust Issues; Pre-Marital Challenges.
“Before our Rebbi started using Gemara Academy, I never looked at Tosefos. It was too hard,” said Yaakov, a mesivta student. “After using the program, I could understand the text perfectly.”
Hundreds of members of the Lubavitch community in Paris, France gathered for their traditional Shabbos Bereishis Melava Malka in the spirit of Hakhel in the hall of Beis Chaya Mushka. Special gueest speaker was Rabbi Binyomin Zilberstrom from Jerusalem, Israel.
As students move back into their dorms on campuses nationwide, Chabad is doing its thing, welcoming them with opportunities to make it a spiritually enriching year.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Monday, October 12, for Columbus Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
A young Jewish couple has traveled more than 2,500 miles with their 10-month-old son from Brooklyn, N.Y. to provide UC Riverside students with free WiFi, a kosher meal and a safe space to discuss Judaism.
Palestinian terrorists carried out two separate stabbing attacks in Jerusalem on Shabbos. Five people were injured in the attacks. Both attackers were shot dead by police.
If the Israeli Defense Forces are to live up to their name, they must also be active in defending the fabric of Jewish life –Torah and Mitzvos.
Yossi Gerson, a 29-year-old man from Lawrence, New York, who has been missing for six days has been found safe and in good health.
Chaya Bruck, a Lubavitcher woman, was forced to ‘withdraw’ from the West Coast University in Broward County, Florida after missing class on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur. This, she claims, is despite being assured that missing school for religious observance would not be a problem.
With great shock and sadness we inform you of the passing of the Mekubal, HaRav HaGaon Rav Yoram Abergel OBM, leader of Kehilas ‘Rav PeAlim’ in Netivot, Israel. He was 58 years old.
As a week of terror and stabbing attacks continued today inIsrael, the Chabad Youth Organization in Israel is sending out waves to volunteers—from students to seniors—to encourage men and boys over the age of 13 to put on tefillin prior to the start of the Jewish Sabbath.
In true Hakhel spirit, CTeen chapters worldwide united via the Mitzvah Challenge, a takeoff the famed ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. Initiated by CTeen of Manchester, UK who blew the shofar in the streets and nominated CTeen of France to do the same, teens from 30 cities were seen blowing the shofar in public, building sukkos in their public high school parking lots, and more.
The search for a missing Lawrence man, 29-year-old Yossi Gerson, came briefly to Crown Heights today when volunteers received a tip that he may be in the neighborhood. The search is ongoing, and a $20,000 reward is being offered by the family.
Chabad’s Terror Victims Project has put together a list of names of the victims of the recent spate of Palestinian terror attacks, along with their mothers’ names. The public is asked to say Tehillim and daven on their behalf.
In the ultimate celebration of life, a band made up of Holocaust survivors debuts in their first music video, sharing the spotlight with Chasidic superstar Lipa Schmeltzer.
Yossi and Dassy (nee Levilev) Eilfort (Los Angeles CA)
