In honor of 4 Menachem Av, which marks the 40th year (5734-74) since the arrival of the Rosh Yeshivah of the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Y.G. – Melbourne), Rabbi Binyomin Cohen, The students of the Yeshivah published a Sefer of Chidushei Torah (Vol. 20), consistent with the Rebbe’s directive that the Yeshivah Gedolah be a centre of Torah learning for Melbourne, and all of Australia.
60 seconds. That’s the amount of time Hamas leaves Israeli citizens to get into a shelter. It doesn’t take more than those 60 seconds to explain the middle east conflict.
A successful season of Camp Gan Israel in Lyon, France drew to a close earlier this week. More than 350 campers attended, a large percentage of whom are students at non-Jewish schools.
There was a buzz in the air at Chabad of Melbourne’s Central Business District this Tuesday: the Stropkover Rebbe would be addressing frum city professionals. Some eager attendees took off work or traveled from afar to be present.
Yossi and Rivka (nee Maltz) Freeman (Crown Heights)
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Devorim. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Can we transform our intellect?
Yitzy Blachman (Crown Heights) and Rochie Carciente (Crown Heights)
Miki (Michal) Glazer (Florida/Kiryat Malachi, Israel) and Leah Pekkar (Pittsburgh, PA)
“Prior to the summer, the Rebbe would – almost annually – discuss the topic of Tznius,” says Oholei Torah Mashpia Rabbi Michoel Seligson. At his suggestion, CrownHeights.info has begun a new weekly feature for the summer months, in which a few words of the Rebbe on topic of Tznius are presented for our readers, as compiled by Rabbi Seligson.
“With G‑d’s help, we will prevail” is a line popping up all over Israel: on banners hanging from porches, on the covers of information brochures, on the glossy packages of Shabbat candles—and just about anywhere else Chabad volunteers are able to reach.
This past weekend, Shloime Klein, a Crown Heights resident, borrowed a book from the Maple St. Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. When he opened the book, he was shocked to find it crawling with ‘stage three’ bed bugs.
Torah Cafe presents another enriching and thought-provoking episode of Crossfire! from the National Jewish Retreat of 2013. Moderated by former television personality Mrs. Molly Resnick, this crossfire addresses numerous topics and questions in a light-hearted and humorous exchange.
Today, in honor of the nine days, the campers of Bais Rivkah Day Camp were privileged to build a model Bais Hamikdash, assisted by Shimon Frankel of The Mikdash Educational Center.
On a recent trip, CGI-Simcha Monica visited America’s first theme park – Knotts Berry Farm. The night before the trip, the staff-members were tipped off about a Jewish worker with whom they should try to put on Tefilin. But they were warned that it would be a challenge: He was one of the “bad guys,” the actors who would regularly “rob” guests on the train which travels throughout the park.
Zvi Yaakov and Chanie (nee Barber) Zwiebel (Blacksburg, VA)
It was not quite 6 a.m. on July 13, 1981, when the phone rang in Rochel Vail’s upstate summer bungalow. Her friend’s frantic husband was on the line. His wife was in labor, and his car had broken down. Would Vail drive them the three hours to the hospital in New York City?
Today, volunteers for the Chabad Terror Victims Project distributed iPads to wounded IDF soldiers, who were very grateful and appreciative to receive them. They will enable the soldiers to stay in touch with family and friends, as well as use other programs to help them through what in some cases is going to be long and painful hospitalizations and rehabilitation.
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