This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 48, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Balancing Modesty and Activism; Fear of Night and Being Alone; Baal Teshuvah Disappointment: After the Honeymoon is Over; Moshiach’s Identity and Signs in 770.
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Four Crown Heights Shomrim Volunteers were among the most recent graduates of the NYPD’s Citizens Police Academy, a special 14-week course in which participants are trained to acquire a wide range of skills in community policing, such as identifying gang members and hostage rescue procedures.
On Monday, Dec. 16th, 1929 (exactly 85 years ago to the day), a Philadelphia Yiddish Newspaper reported that a day before – on Sun, December 15th, 1929 at 12:45pm – there were cries of “baruch haba” from a crowd of 3,000 strong who were gathered at 30th Street train station to greet Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Schneershon, the sixth Lubavitcher Rebbe.
Following a Menorah lighting in South Florida, a woman approached Shliach Rabbi Shuey Biston and told an amazing story about a Brocha she received from the Rebbe for her husband who was to undergo a difficult surgery. Video of that encounter shows the amazing connection from the past to the present.
Hundreds of Menorah-topped-cars and dozens Mitzvah ‘Tanks’ participated in a massive parade this Motzai Shabbos, leaving from Crown Heights and traveling through the streets of Manhattan and spreading the light of Chanukah.
Yitzchak Shuchat, a Jewish man who was accused of assaulting an African-American man in Crown Heights back in 2008, has plead guilty to assault. As part of a plea deal, all racial bias charges against him have been dropped.
Levi Yitzchak Welton (Berkeley, CA) and Chavi Kaufman (Los Angeles, CA)
A gunman shot two uniformed NYPD officers ‘execution style’ while they were sitting in a marked patrol car on the corner of Myrtle and Tompkins Avenues in the Bed-Stuy section of Brooklyn at around 3:00pm. Both officers have died from their wounds.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Baruch Jacobson, director of Chabad at Hunter College, will lead a discussion on the topic – What story do the Chanukah candles tell us?
Hundreds of people gathered at Chabad of Kendall & Pinecrest in Miami on Tuesday night to usher in the first night of Chanukah, and to honor a native son and journalist who was killed at the hands of the ISIS terror group in Iraq.
NHL Hockey’s Florida Panthers’ victory over the Washington Capitals on Tuesday, December 16, made it into the record books, and Chanukah on Ice was a big part of it.
Each Friday afternoon, an excited group of Kesser Torah College Boys’ High School students race from class to board buses to different parts of Sydney’s Eastern suburbs. This weekly foray is a highlight of their week, when they get the opportunity to share the warmth of Judaism that they experience during their school day with Jewish men and women in the wider community.
For the 34th year in a row, the Rabbinical College of America and Chabad of NJ coordinated a Menorah Lighting at the New Jersey Statehouse.
Children with special needs, their siblings and parents gathered on the first night of Chanukah for the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn’s annual Chanukah Celebration. The party brought together nearly 500 men, women and children from across the spectrum of the community, all celebrating the holiday of lights – at a place where ALL children are able to shine!
Moshe Nisnevich (Crown Heights) and Mushky Best (Crown Heights)
