Shabbos at the Besht: The Inner Altar
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Sholom Dovid Geisinsky will lead a discussion on the topic – Mizbeiach Hapnimi In Halacha And Agadah.
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Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe during a Yechidus with donors to the Machane Yisroel Development Fund.
Alternate Side Parking Rules Suspended Friday
Alternate Side Parking regulations will be suspended Friday, February 27, due to cold weather conditions. Payment at parking meters will remain in effect throughout the city.
Baby Girl!
Yermi and Rena (nee Greenberg) Udkoff (San Diego, CA)
Letter & Spirit: Is the Hereditary Kehunah Undemocratic?
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, in honor of Parshas Tetzaveh, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he comments on an article which discusses the seeming inconsistency between “the otherwise democratic orientation of Judaism” and the fact that there exists a hereditary aristocracy in the persons of the Kohanim and Levyim. 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.
Israeli-Made App to Help Drivers Find Parking
When it comes to helping drivers, there’s no shortage of in-car technology from GPS navigation to collision-warning systems. But now start-ups are tackling a perennial source of frustration—finding a parking space.
Bal Harbour, Fla., just north of Miami Beach: At left is the Americana Hotel, next to it is the low-lying Balmoral, both Jewish-owned, and next to that is the Sea Isle, a high-rise that was restricted to Jews when this image was taken in 1960, the year Chabad Rabbi Avrohom Korf moved to Florida.
Dramatic Chabad Growth in South Florida Latest Sign of 75-Year ‘American Jewish Revolution’
It has been 75 years since the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe—Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn, of righteous memory, a refugee from Communist Russia, Nazi Germany and war-torn Europe—arrived on America’s shores in 1940, on 9 Adar, 5700, which corresponds this year to Feb. 28, 2015. And in that time, the Chabad-Lubavitch movement has developed into a vibrant presence in Jewish communities around the nation and the world, with the most dramatic recent growth taking place among young families.
From Vienna to South Carolina: The Long Journey of the Chofetz Chaim Film Clip
As the Jewish community continues to marvel at what is possibly the only footage of the Chofetz Chaim, new details have emerged about the four minute fifty one second clip that has logged tens of thousands of hits on YouTube over the past 48 hours.
Tonight: Watch Live Shloshim for R’ Ariel Rav-Noy, OBM
Tonight, Thursday, February 26, a special Shloshim gathering will take place in Los Angeles commemorating the life and legacy of Rabbi Ariel Rav-Noy, OBM, beloved husband, father, Shliach and educator, who tragically and suddenly passed away last month.
Thawing Out in Winnipeg’s New Kosher Café
It is well below freezing outside, but inside BerMax Caffé + Bistro, patrons are sipping hot soup and lattes, enjoying a rare Winnipeg experience: kosher dining in a smart, upscale eatery.
Rabbi Mangel speaks at Colorado State University
March 16, 1944, the Nazi army invaded Hungary and the home of Holocaust survivor Rabbi Nissen Mangel. By the end of May, his family was in Auschwitz. “I was in the threshold of death,” Mangel said. “In a year in these death camps day in and out. I was in complete danger of death.”
by Zara DeGroot - The Collegian
Baby Boy!
Tzali and Chana Mala (nee Itkin) Borenstein (Whitby, Canada)
Here’s My Story: ‘I Want You to Smile’
Rabbi Chaim Citron is a lecturer at Yeshiva Ohr Elchonon Chabad in Los Angeles and the rabbi of Congregation Ahavas Yisroel in the vicinity. He was interviewed for JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in September of 2011.
From Days Gone By: Toras Emes Talmidim Hashluchim
A group of ten Temimim sent on Shlichus by the Rebbe to the Yeshiva of Toras Emes in Yerushalyim pose for a photo outside the Yeshiva’s building in 1975. Can you identify those in the photo?
Picture of the Day: Safety Is CTeen’s #1 Priority
With a record 1,500 Jewish teenagers expected at the CTeen Shabbaton in Crown Heights this weekend, CTeen staff met with officers from the NYPD’s 71st and 77th precincts, as well as representatives from the Port Authority and the MTA, to formalize plans to beef up security to ensure the safety of the young guests.
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