Baby Girl!
Srulik and Mushka (nee Dahan) Hartman (Crown Heights)
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Twins! Girls!
Berel and Rivky (nee Shemtov) Gurevitch (Crown Heights)
Baby Girl!
Berel and Brocha (nee Katz) Lerman (Crown Heights)
Baby Boy!
Chaim and Chaya Mushka (nee Korf) Stern (Miami Beach, FL)
1,000 Bake Challah in Memory of Rashi Minkowicz
Like rising dough, the attendee list for Chabad of Georgia’s “Mega Challah Bake” just kept growing—so much so that organizers had to find a new location to accommodate the huge crowd of more than 1,000 women on Wednesday night.
Baby Boy!
Shmaryohu and Huvy (nee Levitansky) Hackner (Crown Heights)
Weekly Living Torah Video: Rain of Blessings
“In Eretz Yisroel, the prayers for rain begin on the seventh of Cheshvan. May we have the type of rain which brings blessings in tow, especially the blessing of the final redemption,” said the Rebbe to Rabbi Dov Berel Lipel on 7 Cheshvan, 5750 (November 5, 1989).
Baby Girl!
Sholom Ber and Libby (nee Slavin) Klein (Crown Heights)
Letter & Spirit: Making Humans More Human, Jews More Jewish
In this week’s edition of Letter & Spirit, we present a letter of the Rebbe in which he emphasizes the obligation and duty of all of us, not only Rabbis, to spread the name of G-d and bring all people to worship him, in the spirit of Avraham Avinu’s life. The letter was written through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by his son-in-law Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Video: ‘Nazi School’ Under Investigation in Germany
A school district in Germany has caused quite the media stir this week after images of students saluting with Hitler-like mustaches surfaced in an influential publication. RT News interviewed Rabbi Yehuda Teichtel, Chabad Shliach to Berlin, for his perspective on the incident.
Shomrim Gives Safety Tips for Halloween Eve
The American holiday of Halloween will take place tonight, Friday. While in most areas the holiday is celebrated by children dressing up in costumes and receiving candy, in Crown Heights many hoodlums have customarily celebrated the occasion by throwing eggs at and attacking Jewish residents on the streets of the neighborhood. In light of this situation, Shomrim has released a detailed PSA on what steps should be taken to remain safe throughout the ‘holiday.’
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe touching the Mezuzah as he goes from his office to Daven Maariv.
Shabbos at the Besht: A Hard Day’s Work
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Baruch Jacobson will lead a discussion on the topic – ‘A hard day’s work, according to Chassidus.’
Picture of the Day: Offensive Guard’s Yomtov Mitzvah
On a trip to Manhattan during Chol Hamoed Sukkos, Moshe Koniarski took his Lulav set so he could do Mivtzoim as well. He did not anticipate meeting Geoff Schwartz, a Jewish football player on the New York Giants, who gladly performed the Mitzvah, and told Moshe he had fasted on Yom Kippur as well.
New Engagement!
Shmuly Shechter (Kfar Chabad, Israel) and Chana Bracha Eichenstein (Crown Heights)
Video of Bochurim Dancing in Airport Goes Viral in Italy
An Italian journalist who arrived in Ben Gurion Airport captured the moment students of Yeshivas Toras Emes of Jerusalem welcomed their fellow students who were returning from spending Tishrei in New York with joyous singing and dancing in the midst of the busy terminal.
