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 […]

Picture of the Day: Stopover in Holland
While traveling from the opening of the world fair which is being hosted in Milan, Italy to a regional Kinus in Portland Oregon, Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky, vice chairman of Merkos Linyonai Chinuch met with and Farbrenged for all 15 Shluchim in Holland.

Shabbos at the Besht: Boneinu Areivim B’adeinu
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Eliyahu Shain will lead a discussion on ‘Boneinu areivim badeinu’, Identifying why children are having issues learning, and what parents can do to help.

Collegian Finds Inventive ‘Sandy Koufax’ Solution for Shabbat Commencement Speech
They might come up with a new word for Don Greenberg’s commencement speech at Binghamton University in Upstate New York. Something like … “valedictation.”

Cheder Chabad of Monsey Holds Annual Dinner
Earlier this week Cheder Chabad of Monsey held it’s 16th Anniversary Dinner at the Atrium ballroom in Monsey, NY. Close to 350 parents, educators, staff and community members were in attendance.