Satmar Chassidim gathered at the Bedford Avenue armory in Crown Heights Heights to mark Kuf Alef Kislev, the day Rabbi Yoel Teitelbaum Ztz’l, the founder of Satmar Chassidus in America, escaped from the Nazis during the Holocaust.
This Motzai Shabbos, Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown Street hosted a special father and son Melava Malka and Farbrengen which coincided with Yud Tes Kislev.
Around 2,500 people protesting loudly against police brutality are marching eastward down Eastern Parkway, and will imminently arrive in Crown Heights. [Final update in extended article]
The halls of the Mayanot Institute of Jewish Studies in Jerusalem buzz with youthful energy as young men in their late teens and 20s rush between classes, clutching notebooks, Talmuds and other Jewish texts.
Rabbi Shmuel Butman recalls the day the Rebbe called him to his house, requesting that he publish a book commemorating the worldwide celebrations of the annual completion of the Mishneh Torah. His due date? Three weeks.
Ephraim Moshe Laskar (Montreal, Canada) and Shira Esther Elbaz (Montreal, Canada)
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.
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.
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