New Engagement!
Shmuli Sasonkin (Akron, OH) and Chayale Dubov (Orlando, FL)
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Bnei Brak Couple Has a Boy After 46 Years of Marriage
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.
Video: Violent Altercation with Police Puts Toddler in Danger
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.
Dushinsky Rebbe Visits Chabad Cheder
The Dushinsky Rebbe visited the Chabad Cheder of Sydney during his recent visit to Australia.
Picture of the Day: A Shliach’s Birthday Surprise
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.
Photos: Crown Heights Enjoys Kingston Ave. Fair
Hundreds of families turned out Sunday for a street fair on Kingston Avenue featuring rides, food and safety information.
New Engagement!
Ephraim Chaim Merovitch (Toronto, Canada) and Chava Farkash (Crown Heights)
New Engagement!
Motti Gruzman (Vienna, Austria) and Sorale Landa (London, England)
Laws and Customs: Sivan and Shavuos
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.
Video: See it Differently
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.
New Engagement!
Berl Kesselman (Oak Park, MI) and Mushkie Azimov (Paris, France)
8:00pm: Is the Yeshiva System Failing Our Children?; Sense of Entitlement; Preparing for Mattan Torah
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.
Video: Edible Flowers to Make Your Meals Bloom
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.
Frum Family of 50 Discovers They Are Not Jewish
For many years, the Rebbe made a tumult about the importance of ‘Mihu Yehudi’ in Eretz Yisroel, warning that by recognizing non-Halachic giyur, the Israeli government was undermining the very fabric of the Jewish people. Today, the clear result of these actions was on full display in the Israeli media: a large extended family of G-d-fearing Orthodox Jews discovered to their horror that they are not Halachically Jewish.
Weekly Living Torah Video: It’s Up to G-d!
Tractate Sotah, which is customarily studied between Passover and Shavuos, discusses the laws concerning a woman who is suspected of infidelity by her husband.
Info to Be Menachem Avel Mrs. Rosa Kleinman
Mrs. Rosa Kleinman, wife of the famed Chasidic artist Reb Zalman Kleinman, OBM, is sitting Shiva after the passing of her sister, Rochel Rubin, OBM, at 140 Ross St. between Bedford and Lee Aves. in Williamsburg, until Monday morning. Hamokom Yenachem Eschem Besoch She’ar Aveilei […]
