“Help! Come rescue me now, my husband is coming!!” This was the frantic call Yad L’Achim received from Aliza, a Jewish woman who was trapped in an Arab village. Tonight Aliza will be sharing her story at an event in Crown Heights.
Shavuot marks the “giving of the Torah” at Sinai more than 3,300 years ago. That will have even greater meaning this year for 12 communities in four different countries that will be given their very own Torah scrolls for use by the Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Beis Yisroel Torah Gemach.
Meir Cohen (Montreal, Canada) and Brocha Finer (Los Angeles, CA)
Shmuli Sasonkin (Akron, OH) and Chayale Dubov (Orlando, FL)
There is great joy for a Bnei Brak family that had a boy today after 46 years of marriage. Shmuel Shachar, 67, and his wife Chaya Shachar, 65, had a baby boy after over four and a half decades of being together without children.
A video that is going viral on social media shows four police officers arresting a man on a Crown Heights street. The incident occurred yesterday, Sunday, on Empire Blvd. between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.
The Dushinsky Rebbe visited the Chabad Cheder of Sydney during his recent visit to Australia.
Yesterday, Sunday, Rabbi Yehuda Vorst, Shliach to Rotterdam in the Netherlands, turned 45. His wife arranged a beautiful birthday surprise for him: when he entered Shul that morning, he was greeted by a room filled with men – all wearing Tefilin.
Hundreds of families turned out Sunday for a street fair on Kingston Avenue featuring rides, food and safety information.
Ephraim Chaim Merovitch (Toronto, Canada) and Chava Farkash (Crown Heights)
Motti Gruzman (Vienna, Austria) and Sorale Landa (London, England)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the month of Sivan and the Yomtov of Shavuos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
Initiated by Friendship Circle’s teen friends who cultivate friendships with children who have special needs. Their special friends inspired them to create this film, teaching us how wrong we are when we stereotype based on first impressions.
Berl Kesselman (Oak Park, MI) and Mushkie Azimov (Paris, France)
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 68, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week, in a special Pre-Shavuos episode covering Torah education and our children, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Is the Yeshiva System Failing Our Children?; Sense of Entitlement; Preparing for Mattan Torah.
Sara Chana Silverstein, a Crown Heights mother of seven who specializes in areas of alternative medicine and herbs, appeared on the ABC channel’s CT Style show to share her wisdom on edible flowers, including roses, that can benefit your health.
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