A family has donated a new Sefer Torah to the Chabad Center of Bergen County in northern New Jersey, directed by Rabbi Chanoch Kaplan, in honor of their son’s Bar Mitzvah.
A CrownHeights.info reader captured this photo in the Lubavitcher Yeshiva in Machester, UK, yesterday. Renowned Maggid Shiur Rabbi Moshe Wolberg engages in animated conversation with Rabbi Zalman Gopin, Mashpia in the Yeshiva of Kfar Chabad, Israel, who farbernged for the Yeshiva students during a stopover in Manchester en-route to New York for Gimmel Tammuz.
Mendy Grossbaum (Toronto, Canada) and Libby Spalter (Weston, FL)
On Monday Chof Ches Sivan, June 15, a crowd of two thousand people, members of the Argentinian Jewish community, and their dignitaries, gathered at La Rural, one the most prominent exhibition center in South America, for an evening of inspiration and connection to the Rebbe.
Tonight, Thursday, the central Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen will take place in Beis Rivka Campus Chomesh and thousands of Chassidim, Bochurim, Shluchim and Anash will be participating. The event will also be broadcasted live here on CrownHeights.info.
A rock was thrown at a bus carrying Yeshiva students who travelled overnight from Detroit to spend Gimmel Tammuz at the Ohel.
Raphael and Tzivi Jaworowski (Chicago, IL)
Lazer and Soro Rochel (nee Jacobs) Ashkenazi (Montreal, Canada)
Rabbi Pinchas Woolstone, served as rabbi of the Jewish House Crisis Center in Sydney, Australia, for over twenty years. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in Brooklyn, New York, in December of 2013.
The numerous standing ovations during the gala banquet of last week’s New York and New England Regional Kinus echoed the overall feelings of empowerment, excitement and renewal of the attending Shluchim.
Staff at the Ohel are hard at work preparing for the tens of thousands that are expected to visit over this coming weekend to mark Gimmel Tammuz, the day of the Yohrtzeit of the Rebbe.
Yeshivas Tomchei Tmimim – Chovevei Torah has announced that Rabbi Levi Tzukernik will be joining the yeshiva next year as a new Mashpia and Maggid Shiur for the first level of the Beis Medrash.
Saadia Liberow (London, England) and Fraidy Lefkowitz (Monsey, NY)
In a rare rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policy, a senior Chabad rabbi from Moscow expressed concerns over a bill aiming to limit foreign involvement.
A Manhattan synagogue, Chabad Lubavitch of Midtown, is suing the man who helped them obtain the 509 Fifth Ave. location over signage at the property.
Several dozen prominent Mohalim from various Jewish communities in the New York City area gathered at the Ateres Golda Ballroom in Boro Park this past Sunday for a seminar on the safety and legality of Bris Milah and Metzitza B’peh.
Tonight at 8:00, a Farbrengen will be broadcast live here on CrownHeights.info featuring Rabbi Chezky Lifshitz, Shliach to Nepal, who will share his incredible stories of life-saving activities following the devastating earthquake that rocked the mountainous Asian county.
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