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.
Chaim Nochum and Tova Cunin (Jerusalem, Israel)
At the Dinerman-Kreiman wedding in S. Diego Wednesday night, in the presence of a smiling Rabbi Yitzi Hurwitz, ten attendees performed the ‘ice bucket challenge’ to raise awareness for ALS.
Eli and Lea Goldshtein (Crown Heights)
Earlier this week, a devastating crash on Eastern Parkway claimed the life of a young woman. A makeshift memorial of candles and flowers was put up by friends and nearby residents. Among the condolence notes was one which recognizes the diversity of Crown Heights.
Kuti and Rikki (nee Fischelowitz) Chanin (Crown Heights)
Leibi and Chanie Marozov (Crown Heights)
Compelled by video of a police chokehold death on Staten Island and the lack of such evidence in the fatal shooting of a Missouri teenager, a top New York City official Thursday intensified her push to equip the city’s 35,000 officers with body-worn cameras.
A 4 year old child was killed when a mortar fired from Gaza hit the vehicle he was in. The attack occurred in Shar Hangev, a few miles away from Gaza.
Nathan Hecht, the son of Chabad Shluchim to Forest Hills, Queens, appeared on the Fox Business channel yesterday to discuss his latest startup – an app that ‘self-destructs’ files sent over e-mail and social media.
In November of 2008, Islamic terrorists entered the Chabad House run by Rabbi Gabi and Rivky Holtzberg in Mumbai, India, and murdered them and four of their guests in cold blood. In the immediate aftermath of the gruesome attack, photos of the smiling couple were transposed with images of their crying 2-year-old son, Moishe, and the bullet-riddled shell of the Jewish center the Holtzbergs had built in the heart of India’s largest city.
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