In some significant way, the opening this month of a kollel, a rabbinical seminary in Hamburg, Germany, harks back to its glory pre-war days when the city was graced by distinguished rabbis. It is yet another of many signs of the recent rise of Jewish life in Germany, much of it due to the Chabad centers—nearly 20 of them—across the country.
The Elementary School boys of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami have made history, and for a very good cause.
Last week, one hundred and fifty young activists, coordinators, professional mentors and rabbis, from ten cities in four different countries of the former Soviet Union, attended the five-day annual general seminar of the FJC’s new and innovative youth movement – EnerJew, which took place in the outskirts of Minsk, Belarus.
The matzeiva unveiling for Mrs. Miriam Slater, OBM, a longtime member of the Crown Heights community and beloved Baalas Chesed, who passed away last week at the age of 60, took place yesterday, Tuesday.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov, OBM, the head Shliach to Paris since 1968, who was much beloved by the Jewish community he served and helped revitalize. Rabbi Azimov spearheaded the ‘French Jewish Revolution,’ which saw close to 100,000 French Jews become Baalei Teshuvah over the past five decades. He was 69 years old.
A Palestinian man rammed his car into a crowded train platform in east Jerusalem on Wednesday and then attacked people with an iron bar, killing one person and injuring 13 in what authorities called a terror attack before he was shot dead by the police.
The condition of Rabbi Shmuel ‘Muleh’ Azimov, Shliach of the Rebbe to Paris since 1968, has taken a sharp turn for the worse, r”l. The community asked to please say urgent Tehillim for Shmuel Ben Risha.
Riding a wave of anger and dissatisfaction with government in Washington, Republicans, for the first time in 8 years, took control of the senate and made gains in the House of Representatives. In New York State Andrew Cuomo was reelected as governor.
More than 1,000 participants attended a landmark lecture on the topic “Why is Israel So Isolated?” delivered by renowned commentator and radio talk show host, Dennis Prager, at the Westlake Plaza Hotel on behalf of Chabad’s Conejo Jewish Academy located in Agoura Hills, California.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeira. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Is it possible that G-d would reveal himself to us?
The Mangel family completed new Sefer Torah Tuesday evening, with the final letters being written in the home Rabbi Nissen Mangel. Following the completion the gathered crowd broke out in dance in the streets of Crown Heights.
In these two photographs, published courtesy of Shturem.net, former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzchak Rabin, who was assassinated on this day in 1995, can be seen visiting Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Kfar Chabad on two separate occasions in the 1980s. Can you identify anyone else in the photos?
Yesterday evening at around 9:30pm, two Jewish men were assaulted and threatened with a gun in the heart of Crown Heights, in what appears to be an unprovoked attack.
With great sadness we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of a one-year-old toddler, Shneur Zalman Segal, of Nachlas Har Chabad, Israel.
A new technological development has raised concerns among the Orthodox-Jewish community around the world: A robotic scribe. Created by a German university, the robot can mimic the way a human ‘Sofer’ writes Hebrew letters on parchment, raising the possibility of authentic-looking but non-Kosher Mezuzos and Tefilin being sold on the market by unscrupulous sellers.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Avery Sax – Rivka Rochel bas Fruma Tzveybel – a 13-year-old Jewish girl from Moorpark, CA, who is currently undergoing complicated surgery. CrownHeights.info published an article about Avery’s illness and activism here.
Crown Heights community member Mendy Hecht makes the case in this op-ed that his fellow voters should throw their support behind Rob Astorino, the Republican challenger to the Democratic Governor of New York Andrew Cuomo, in today’s election.
