This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 23, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled Connecting to the Rebbe, and Keeping Up Inspiration When Feeling “Burned Out”.
Shmulie and Musi (nee Lustig) Naparstek (Crown Heights)
Just a few short days before the conclusion of this learning year, a select group of Bochurim in the Mesivta of Yeshivas Lubavitch Toronto went on a fun filled full day trip to Niagara Falls, New York.
Choli Feinblum (Johannesburg, South Africa) and Natania Tanenbaum (Houston, TX)
Lechaim today, Sunday at 2:00pm at 575 East New York Ave.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave.]
Several buses filled with eager campers left Crown Heights last Tuesday and headed to familiar campgrounds in New York’s Catskill Mountains. With anticipation and excitement in the air, the campers were introduced to their counselors and new friends, and settled down for what promises to be the summer of a lifetime.
The Shluchim in Curitiba, Brazil put on Tefilin with Jewish men in front of the FIFA World Cup’s “Arena da Baixada,” located a short block’s distance from the Chabad House. Rabbi Fitche Dubrawsky, Rabbi Mendel Labkowski and his son Nochum invite soccer fans from Australia to stop for a few minutes and do a Mitzvah before entering the stadium to watch the match.
Shmuel Lefkowitz (Monsey, NY) and Draizy Wilansky (Portland, ME)
L’Chaim Sunday at 1394 President St.
[between Kingston and Brooklyn Ave]
Chaim Kotlarsky (New City, NY) and Mushky Groner (South Africa)
Yitzchok and Asna Devorah (nee Beenstock) Ostrozynski (Crown Heights)
On Thursday evening, well over 10,000 people, young and old, gathered in the Yad Eliyahu arena in Tel Aviv to mark the 20th anniversary of the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s passing.
Hundreds of Anash and Bochurim will be staying at the Ohel over Shabbos, as preparations are being made to greet the ten’s of thousands that will visit the Ohel of the Rebbe in honor of his Yohrtzeit.
In Honor of Gimmel Tammuz Rabbi Yoel Kahn presents a special edition of his weekly Chassidus webcast, The Chassidic Perspective, titled “Hiskashrus Today – Part 1“.
Yossi Kanner (Crown Heights) and Chaya Mushka Klein (Manchester, England)
Levi Chayo (Crown Heights/CA) and Mushky Krasnianski (Montreal, Canada)
New York State’s highest appeals court has refused to reinstate former Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s ban on the sale of big sodas by restaurants and other vendors in New York City, striking a fatal blow to the controversial rule.
It is one week before Gimmel Tammuz—the 20th anniversary of the passing of the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory—and a group of several hundred people have gathered in a large synagogue in Montreal to learn his teachings.
Early this morning, a Crown Heights resident was leaving his home for work when he noticed a couple of young men dumping garbage in the commercial dumpster of a nearby business. The man confronted them and explained that businesses in New York City have to pay for every bag of garbage they dispose of, and that what they were doing was a form of G’neiva (stealing).
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