In an impressive display of Jewish unity, three communities got together in the Chabad Shul in Tannersville, NY, for a Yarchai Kallah Melava Malka and Farbrengen in honor of the 71st Yahrtzeit of Reb Levi Yitzchok, the Rebbe’s father.
A 20-year-old man has been indicted with killing his girlfriend in a fatal car crash in Crown Heights last month, the Brooklyn District Attorney’s office announced this week.
Mr. Arnold Dalfen currently lives with his family in Montreal, Canada. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in January of 2011.
Rabbi Shmaryahu Gurary (The Rashag) and Rabbi Mordechai Mentlick walk down the aisle at a wedding in New York in the early 1940s. Can you identify anyone else in the photo, the date or location of the wedding?
Cyprus brings to mind many visuals, in addition to the sandy terrain and lush greenery evocative of Mediterranean islands.
With great sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Gershon Giter, OBM, dedicated husband, father, Chosid, Shliach and longtime rabbi of Congregation Beis Menachem in S. Paul, Minnesota. He was 61 years old.
Yesterday, the talmidim of Yeshiva Summer Program in Morristown, NJ, traveled on an interstate trip to Pennsylvania, where they had a great time kayaking on the Delaware river.
Friends of Refugees of Eastern Europe (FREE) has welcomed the decision by the NSW Department of Planning & Environment to approval a rezoning proposal in Sydney’s Bondi neighborhood at the site of the former Maccabi tennis club.
As the campers gathered on the soccer field of Camp Gan Yisroel-NY, you could see anticipation written on their faces. Spellbound, they watched each carefully orchestrated scene with interest.
The Young Leadership Committee of Cheder Menachem in Los Angeles hosted a preview event and book signing launch of veteran Shliach Rabbi Dovid Eliezrie’s new work, “The Secret of Chabad: Inside the world’s most successful Jewish movement.”
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehilllim for a father and Shliach, Gershon ben Liorah, who is in critical condition. Suggested Kapitals are 20 and 63.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Ekev. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can you make sure that the reward for your Mitzvos endures forever?
As 2,322 Jewish men and women gathered around tables Friday night for what has officially been declared by the Guinness World Records to be the largest Shabbat meal on record, Shneur Volfman says he and his fellow Chabad-Lubavitch rabbinical students were on a mission: to make sure that each attendee had a meaningful Shabbat experience.
In honor of Chof Menachem Av, the yahrtzeit of Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Schneerson, the Rebbe’s father, Rabbi Levi Gorelik talks about his personal interactions with the Rebbe regarding his parents. He talks about the time when the Rebbe asked him: “And whom are you named after?” and when the Rebbe said “Thank you for coming to the yahrtzeit.”
Dovid Kaminetzky (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya Okunov (Crown Heights)
Millions of Americans mark the first Tuesday in August as “National Night Out Against Crime” by hosting a picnic on the streets in front of their home. The initiative is intended to foster better relations between the police and the community, and to ‘take back’ the streets from crime.
“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Crown Heights Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info presents a weekly feature for the summer months: a short thought of the Rebbe on tznius, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
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