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.
A young singer’s powerful song in her new album tells of the bullying she suffered when moving to a new neighborhood at a young age. In her song, titled “invisible,” Shaindel Antellis shows the effects of bullying.
Posing a group picture with thousands of Rabbis is no small feat, and organizers of the Kinus Hashluchim are hard at work making sure it happens. This year they have once again partnered with Chaim Perl, a talented local photographer who has taken the reins in organizing this amazing photo.
On Thursday, November 6, at around 7:15pm, two teenagers standing on the 2/3 subway platform at the Franklin Avenue station in Crown Heights were approached by a group of nine suspects who demanded they hand over their property.
Avremy and Chanie (nee Katz) Lerner (Crown Heights)
Shliach to Gloucester County, NJ, Rabbi Avi Richler poses with his good friend Donald Norcross (D) at a celebration following the latter’s swearing-in ceremony not long after he was elected to represent New Jersey’s 1st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
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