From Kindergarten all the way up through 8th grade, the students of Oholei Torah elementary school celebrated Yud Tes Kislev, the Yahrtzeit of the Mezritcher Maggid and day of liberation of the Alter Rebbe from Czarist prison.
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The Lubavitch community of Los Angeles gathered together last night for a Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen with world-renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Simon Jacobson.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motti Lipsker will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘I don’t want to be Botul.’
More than 200 people ushered in the Chassidic new year at a farbrengen at the Yeshiva Centre in Sydeny, Australia, earlier this week.
The Atlanta Hawks had just finished their basketball game when Jewish music pounded through the speakers, and rabbis and fans got up to dance around the menorah in the center of the basketball court. For Emily Hanover who organized on behalf of the Hawks with Chabad of Atlanta, last year’s event, “was one of the proudest moments of my career.”
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe saying a Sicha after the lighting of the menorah on the sixth day of Chanukah, 1987. Photo by I. Dayan.
The congregants of three Crown Heights Shuls all located on the same block – Beis Eliezer Yitzchok, Shain Shul and Chevra Shas – joined together for a special Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen, which was led by Rabbi Mordechai Gurary.
Marking Yud Tes Kislev, the community of Oihel Nosson held a Farbrengen with Rabbi Yossi Chazzan of Manchester, England.
Yehoshua and Freidy (nee Gurkow) Korenblit (Crown Heights)
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, in honor of Yud Tes Kislev – Chag Ha’ge’ula and Rosh Hashana of Chassidus, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he writes about the Halachic obligation for every Jew to learn Chassidus. 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.
Both NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio and NYPD Police Commissioner Bill Bratton came to Crown Heights in order to meet with community leaders in order to discuss the recent stabbing attack in 770 and the response to the incident.
In the latest episode of Jewbellish The News, Big Dave, filling in for Mendy Pellin, exposes CNN’s anti-Israel bias, talks about America’s recovery from Black Friday, and asks why Hamas in Gaza are scared of rain.
It began almost two years ago, when Rabbi Yechiel Cagen began to mine the My Encounter with the Rebbe interviews for heartwarming and inspiring stories that would be most appropriate for the Shabbos table.
A Yud Tes Kislev Farbrengen will be hosted tonight by Beis Menachem Mendel-Chabad in Flatbush at 8:00pm, with world-renowned author and lecturer Rabbi Shais Taub. A video of the event will be streamed live by Chabad.org, and will be available for viewing here on CrownHeights.info.
Motty and Malka Michla (nee Plotkin) Perlow (Crown Heights)
This afternoon, Shomrim received a call from a young Jewish woman who said an African-American man in his early 30s wearing a jacket emblazoned with the word ‘security’ exposed himself to her near the corner of East New York and Kingston Avenues.
Rabbi Avrohom Rimler, Shliach to Plattsburgh in northern New York, was interviewed by the local chapter of NBC News after the city approved his request to display a public Menorah downtown.
