This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 98, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: How to Find a Healthy Mashpia; Women of the Wall; Tznius; Finding Your Life’s Purpose; Hebrew Names.
Yudi Golowinski (Crown Heights) and Sheina Schochet (Miami Beach, FL)
A violent collision sent one driver to an area hospital after he swiped one car, lost control and crashed head on into a tree.
Nissy (Ben Avrohom Moshe) Deitsch (Crown Heights) and Chaya Broner (Sao Paulo, Brazil)
New York City subway riders will soon have access to Wi-Fi and cellphone service as part of a plan to upgrade an aging transit system that serves 9 million people daily.
Friends and family gathered in front of 770, the Lubavitch World Headquarters, on Sunday afternoon to partake in the Levaya of Rabbi Bentzion Friedman OBM, who passed away on Erev Shabbos.
City and law enforcement officials are touting 2015 as the safest year on record the City of New York, with an overall decrease of 1.7% in crime citywide since the beginning of 2015, though murder, rape and robbery all saw 2 to 6 percent increases.
As part of MyShliach’s 17th Regional Shabbaton, which is being held in Venice, Italy, young Shluchim set out in the Jewish Ghetto to do Mivtzoim and put on Tefillin with Jews.
Mendy and Chaya Greenberg (Wasilla, AK)
Lubavitcher Yeshiva put on a special program for men this Motzai Shabbos with hundreds turning out in support. The program included an auction viewing, delicious hot food three famous resturanst including Izzy’s Smokehouse, Boeuf and Bun and the Sushi Room, topping it all off was a concert with Beri Webber.
Worcester businessman Barry Krock and his wife, Janet, have donated their $1.5 million mansion to Chabad of Central Massachusetts, directed by Rabbi Mendel Fogelman. The grand home will be converted into a Jewish community center and offices, to be called the “The Krock Family Chabad Center for Jewish Life.”
With just a week and a half left to Yud Shevat, Bochurim around the world are preparing to spend Yud Shvat at the Rebbe’s Ohel and in Crown Heights, learning this year’s Bosi Legani Ma’amorim, and taking on Hachlotos Tovos.
With great sadness and pain we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Leah Rosa Friedman, the 2-year-old daughter of Rabbi Avraham Friedman of Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem, Israel.
This week’s Living Torah from JEM is themed around the crime and its challenges within communities.
With sadness we inform you of the passing shortly before Shabbos of Rabbi Bentzion Friedman, OBM, of Crown Heights, a beloved educator and Lamdan. He was 84 years old.
The captain of the boat sounded an alarm; They were spotted by a German Submarine. He announced we must lighten the load and therefor all passengers may keep only one valise or box, everything else must be thrown overboard. The people were scared for their life and obeyed this instruction and shortly afterwards there were hundreds, and indeed thousands of valises floating in the water. Then to everyone’s fright, the German submarine rose out of the water and everyone became petrified.
