After his video on the proper way to don a Talis Gadol according to Chabad custom stirred some Machlokes L’shem Shomayim, Rabbi Sholom Dovber Levin has returned with a similar instructional video on how to properly don a Talis Koton.
On Friday, about an hour before Shabbos, Shomrim received a call from the mother of a teary-eyed 8-a year-old girl, whose new bicycle had just been stolen.
At around 3:00pm this afternoon, a Hatzalah ambulance transporting a patient to the hospital crashed into another vehicle at the intersection of Kingston Ave. and Eastern Parkway in Crown Heights.
A pair of sophisticated burglars wearing ski masks and gloves broke into Albany Bakery in Crown Heights last night, and made off with a substantial sum of cash. A surveillance video captured footage of the daring robbery, which took less than 15 minutes from start to finish.
Rabbi Shmuel Azimov, director of Chabad-Lubavitch in Paris, France, passed away two weeks ago after a stroke. Azimov built more than three dozen communities, but will be remembered for the personal bonds he developed with thousands who regarded him as their personal mentor.
At this year’s annual Agudas Yisroel convention in Woodcliff Lake, NJ, Executive Vice President Rabbi Chaim Dovid Zwiebel related a fascinating and insightful story about the Alter Rebbe, which occurred during the period he spent in the czar’s prison.
Schneur Zalman and Faige (nee Bronstein) Rabin (Montreal, Canada)
A young Lubavitcher man serving in the Israeli Air Force was ordered by his commander to shave his beard or face charges of insubordination.
Avram and Rochel (nee Bruk) Banon (Montreal, Canada)
Schneur Zalman and Faige (nee Bronstein) Rabin (Crown Heights)
Hundreds of Talmidim and Anash made their way to the Zal of the Yeshiva in Kfar Chabad where Rabbi Yaakov Dov Hakohen Katz OBM served as the Rosh Yeshiva. Hundreds took part in a Tehillim vigil which carried on up to the kevurah.
Hundreds of women and girls turned out Sunday night in support of Ten Yad, an organization which helps Kallahs. The event was held in the Razag Ballroom in Crown Heights, with a lavish food buffet, an auction viewing capped off by enthralling entertainment. UPDATE: Winners list added!
Shmuly Shuchat (Toronto, Canada) and Sara Leah Spielman (Crown Heights)
Avrohom and Mashie (nee Bronstein) Rapoport (Ventnor City, NJ)
Jerusalem’s new Chief Rabbi, Rabbi Shlomo Amar, paid a visit to the Ohel Sunday afternoon together with his staff members. This visit comes just one month following the elections and on the week of the opening of the Kinus Hashluchim.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 43, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Eating Disorders, Who Is a Jew, Dating Protocol, Obligation to the Homeless and the Rebbe’s Advice and Blessings.
Five months before Pesach, preparations began at the world-renowned Crown Heights Matzah Bakery for this year’s production of Matzos, under the leadership of Rabbi Yitzchok Tenenbaum.
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