With the coming school year on the horizon, Released Time program is happy to announce that it will I”YH be hosting a conference this upcoming Labor Day, September 1st. It will be taking place in Queens, with the focus being to give the weekly instructors an opportunity to unite and revitalize.
I am the proud mother of a happy teenager who goes to Bnos Chomesh High School in Crown Heights. I am writing this op-ed anonymously because, after all, my daughter is a teenager, and needs her privacy. But remembering how I agonized at this time last year, I felt that I just had to share my story in the hopes that maybe it will help someone else.
A group of around 15 affluent New York Jews took to the skies yesterday in their private jets for a remarkable display of support for the Jewish homeland. Chabad photographer Itzik Roytman accompanied them to document the event.
Andrea Robbins traveled with her husband and fellow photographer Max Becher to capture images of the numerous replicas of Chabad Headquarters-770 Eastern Parkway that are scattered all across the globe. The photographs will be displayed in a unique gallery that will go on view next month in Manhattan.
Crown Heights community member Mendel Goldstein was on a trip with his family in Long Island yesterday; when it was time for lunch, he hooked up a miniature microwave oven to his car battery to cook some hot dogs. As he prepared the meal, the owner of the adjacent ‘air trampoline’ establishment came out to see what he was doing. In the ensuing conversation, it was revealed that the man was Jewish and hadn’t put on Tefilin since his Bar Mitzvah – which was 40 years ago.
Sara Chana Silverstein, a Crown Heights mother of 7 who specializes in areas of alternative medicine and herbs, appeared on Fox 25 News to share her wisdom on moodiness and mood improvement.
On Thursday, 21 August, three Knesset members arrived with a delegation at the Kharkov synagogue to meet with Jewish community leaders to discuss the current situation in Ukraine and how to help absorb the hundreds of Jewish refugees who have fled to Kharkov from Lugansk and Donetsk.
An amazing triumph brought the Shluchim of Asia together for a regional Kinus Hashluchim in the Nariman House in Mumbai, India. After being largely destroyed in a terror attack, which claimed the lives of Shluchim Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg along with three other Jews HYD, the building has been rebuilt and is being dedicated with the day’s long conference.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 31, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: Rising Anti-Semitism, Tanya & Non-Jews, Muslim Fanaticism, Alternative Medicine, Yeshiva Tuition, Elul & Tishrei.
A nasty piece of malware is being blamed for a recent breach that compromised tens of thousands of credit card numbers. It is the same malware that was behind the massive breach at Target just a few months ago.
David and Eda (nee Sirota) Schottenstein (Bal Harbour, FL)
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the month of Elul (up to but not including the week of Selichos) for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
A earthquake, which registered at a magnitude of 6.0, shook the Bay Area of San Francisco, California causing damage and displacing hundreds and injured dozens. Among the damaged structures was that of Chabad of Napa Valley.
Lately there’s been a social media craze that looks so good, so special – on the surface. It’s so encouraging to see so many people who are willing to take the challenge and get themselves drenched in freezing water just to bring awareness to a disease which debilitates fellow human beings. Although they are perhaps not personally affected by this horrible disease, yet they are ready to do this selfless act to help total strangers in need.
Jewish pride was alive at this year’s JCC Maccabi Games, where more than 12,000 athletes and guests from around the world gathered in three U.S. cities to participate in sports, entertainment and community unity.
