Video: Transforming Your Ego
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Balak. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Can one’s ego be transformed?
Old Jewish cemetery in Berlin.
Berlin Jews Struggle Against Burial Law
The Jewish community of Berlin, Germany’s capital, is fighting against an ordinance requiring that the burial of the all city’s dead be delayed for 48 hours in case an autopsy is required. Rabbi Yehudah Teichtel, Chabad Shliach to the city, is leading the charge against the law, on the grounds that it requires Berlin’s Jews to violate Halacha.
Educators Share and Learn at Chinuch Conference
Surrounded during a meal in the dining room for an impromptu discussion, Rabbi Avrohom M. Segal, the educational consultant who came specially form Israel to present at the Kinus HaMechanchim, expressed his delighted surprise at the level of the discourse.
Video: Innocent Blood
Chassidic rapper Ari Lesser reacts to the devastating news that the three missing Israeli teenagers were found dead, having benn brutally murdered by Palestinian terrorists soon after they were kidnapped.
Hundreds Unite in Tzfas for Evening of Inspiration
Hundreds of Jewish residents of the holy city of Tzfas, Israel, from all backgrounds and affiliations, gathered last night at a local Simcha hall for a grand Farbrengen marking 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz.
Video: Rare Footage of the Rebbe at Shachris
CrownHeights.info has obtained Never-before-seen footage of the Rebbe davening Shachris, which was filmed by the family of an Israeli boy who came to celebrate his Bar-Mitzvah in 770 in the winter of 1991.
Darchei Menachem Students’ Achievement Celebrated
On the last day of school, the students of Yeshivas Darchei Menachem’s Shiur Beis celebrated with two of their fellow classmates on the occasion of their completion of an entire Masechta of Gemara over the course of the year.
Three murdered Israeli teenagers are laid to rest.
Op-Ed: How to End Terror Once and for All
Israel doesn’t have a partner in peace. It doesn’t take 41 years to negotiate an understanding that we have a right not to be slaughtered. If we would have a peace partner, it should take no longer than 41 minutes to negotiate an eternal ceasefire.
by Boruch Wolf
Video: A Chasid in Camouflage
When Rabbi Benjamin Blech was asked by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to go on a speaking tour in the Far East, he balked. The counsel the Rebbe gave Rabbi Blech changed his outlook on Jewish identity forever, and inspired his philosophy of a Jewish solidarity that disregards our individual differences.
Baby Boy!
Asher and Miriam (nee Newfield) Friedman (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor will be at 530 Maple St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.]
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Yosef Loschak, 62, OBM
With great sadness and deep pain we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Yosef Yehuda Loschak OBM, a Shliach in S. Barbra, California. He was 62 years old.
Hundreds Attend Central Gimmel Tammuz Farbrengen
Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim packed into Beis Rivkah’s Rosa Hall in Campus Chomesh for a farbrengen in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
New Engagement!
Shlomie Litvin (Louisville, KY) and Shoshi Biggs (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
New Engagement!
Shimon Greenwald (Rechovot/Crown Heights) and Miriam Orimland (Tzfas/Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be Wednesday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
The Rebbe’s Army Conquers the Bay Area
Dan Pine, a writer for the San Francisco area newspaper J Weekly, wrote the following feature article on the family of Chabad Shluchim in the Bay Area, which we share with our readers in honor of Gimmel Tammuz.
Photos by Chaim Perl
Photos: The Final Hours of Gimmel Tammuz at the Ohel
With the final hours of Gimmel Tammuz approaching the lines extended as far as Francis Lewis Blvd, after tens of thousands had already made their way to visit the Ohel.
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb. Photo: JEM,
The Contributions of the Rebbe to Torah Scholarship
Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb, executive vice president emeritus of the Orthodox Union, wrote the following article on OU.org describing what he sees as the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s contribution to Torah Scholarship.
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