Ezra Schwartz HYD was murdered by Palestinian terrorists one month ago and standing in front of a united crowd in Sharon, Massachusetts, his 13-year-old brother Hillel Schwartz lit the Menorah and led the crowd in the singing of Ani Maamin.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 95, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Why Hair Covering? Inspiring Children; Chemistry in Dating; Is the Rebbe’s Advice Specific to Questioner? Tzimtzum K’pshuto Part III.
Jewish singing star Gad Elbaz performed an energy-infused concert in front of an enthusiastic, sold-out crowd at a grand Chanukah event organized by Chabad of Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, under the leadership of Rabbi Shlomo Cohen.
Every day of Chanukah following Mincha, the beautiful menorah in the Marina Roscha Chabad synagogue in Moscow, Russia – a replica of the Rebbe’s – was lit amid much fanfare.
New York City politicians, Jewish community leaders, activists and laypeople gathered for a gala dinner and Chanukah festival, in recognition and support of Chabad’s Jewish institute of Queens, under the leadership of Rabbi Zalman Zevulunov, Rabbi Yitzchok Wolowik and Rabbi Shmuel Kagan.
A friend of the woman who fought off a knife-wielding terrorist who entered her Ra’anana home on Saturday recounted how Dikla Dvir confronted the Palestinian man and shoved him out of her living-room into the clutches of police officers.
While for many Jewish children Chanukah means vacation or wonderlands and Dreidel houses, the little Shluchim in Sumy, Ukraine, had a different Chanukah experience.
Shmuly Lotman (Milwaukee, WI) and Bluma Pinson (Crown Heights)
OK Kosher Certification recently treated its employees and children to annual Chanukah parties in its in-house party lounge.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Shmuel Heber will lead a discussion on the topic – Bitochon and Simcha.
For the second year in its history, the Australian National Menorah was lit in the Parliament of Canberra, the Australian Capital Territory, on the eight day of Chanukah, the festival of lights. The event was organized by Chabad-ACT.
Fourteen people were mildly poisoned by a toxic substance that was applied to the keypad of an electronic lock of a synagogue south of Paris.
“To stay or to go?” was the question that puzzled organizers of the International CTeen Shabbaton ever since the conclusion of last year’s Shabbaton.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during Krias Hatorah, circa mid-1980s.
Levi Ainsworth (Melbourne, Australia) and Toby Bartfield (Coral Springs, FL)
Yisroel Dovid Pekkar (Pittsburgh, PA) and Chaya Faigy Levilev (Crown Heights)
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