A group of activists are planning a march in Crown Heights to raise “awareness and change for Jewish wives who are ‘chained’.” According to organizers this march is in response to a so-called “crisis in our community.”
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A Chassidus essay challenge hosted by The Meaningful Life Center, which over 500 participated in, will announce the winner of the $10,000 prize in the weekly MyLife: Chassidus Applied broadcast this coming Sunday here on CrownHeights.info
Three term New York State Governor George Pataki received a box of Shmurah Matzah from Rabbi Levi Krinsky, Shliach to the State of New Hampshire.
A new piano solo, composed by Sarah Dukes and performed by Mendy Portnoy from Israel, expresses the feelings of despair Sarah was feeling when daily headlines highlighted the incessant rockets raining down on Israel.
Yaniv and Brina Bazel (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe In it he uses the scientific method to give an in depth analysis to the question: What is the purpose of life? The meaning of a Jew? as he explains the concept of a Higher Authority responsible for an orderly universe in its minutest detail. the entire system is beyond our comprehension. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
A Facebook post brought an elderly man to tears today when over 100 people showed up to help fill a Minyan so that he can say Kaddish at his wife’s graveside on the day of her Yohrtzeit.
The Tri State Area’s first day of spring will feel much more like the last few months of winter. The NYC Office of Emergency Management has issued a travel advisory, warning of an incoming low pressure system that will bring snow and rain Friday morning, with accumulations as high as 6 inches.
Nochum (ben Reb Yisroel) Labkowski (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Slonim (Dijon, France)
Mendy and Faigy (nee Goldstein) Stone (Crown Heights)
Binyomin and Blumshi Dubroff (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Avrohom Chanoch Glitzenshtein, a noted scholar and longtime administrator of Chabad institutions in Israel who passed away March 11 in Jerusalem at the age of 86 was remembered as Chabad’s “literary pioneer,” who over the course of many years compiled, translated and edited some 60 volumes on Chassidic thought, history and lore, and was lauded as a key figure in the institutional growth of Chabad in Israel.
Chabad of East Boca Raton has been without a permanent home for over 15 years, now the center’s director Rabbi Ruvi New has submitted plans to build a 15,000 square foot, $8 million center and is having its first public community hearing today.
Last Shabbos marked a triumphant return to glory for Singers Hill, as the 159-year-old Synagogue re-opened its doors following a stunning renovation in the honored presence of UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, together with his wife, Valerie.
Mrs. Sarah Esther Feigelstock has been a Shlucha in Montreal since 1945 and is a teacher of chasidic thought in Montreal for over 40 years. She was interviewed in her home for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in July of 2010.
Students in Bnos Chomesh are hard at work practicing for their upcoming production, titled “Welcome to Chelm: A Musical Production” which tells some of the stories of the famous city in Poland.
Yanky Bell (Leeds, England) and Shternie Bell (Montreal, Canada)
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