This weeks edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 18 tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “What Defines a Lubavitcher?.”
There was communal joy and celebration, with a little dancing thrown in for good measure, at the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Library near Troy, NY Sunday with the completion of the hand-written American Jewish Heritage Torah scroll.
Rabbi Chaim Miller, compiler of the Gutnick Chumash and other popular works, has written a complete biography of the Rebbe, chronicling his entire life in vivid detail from 1902 until 1994 and beyond.
For years, Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm, wife Leah and their five young children were accustomed to having house guests — a lot of house guests. The couple’s home on 17th Street in Boulder was the home base for Chabad at the University of Colorado, where CU students engaged in Shabbat dinners, social gatherings and study sessions each week.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations and parking meter regulations will be suspended on Monday, May 26, for Memorial Day.
Yaffa Lvova has been confined to her Chandler home one day a week since her twins were born nine months ago. Although the boys are a wonderful blessing, Lvova said, “I was a big part of the community before I had them, and now, since I’ve had them, I’m at home.”
Yehoshua and Mushky (nee Hertzel) Hurvitz (Kfar Chabad, Israel)
Three people were killed and a fourth was in critical condition in Brussels following an attack inside the Jewish Museum of Belgium late Saturday afternoon, and security has been tightened at Jewish institutions around the country.
Surveillance video has been released that gives the public a look at the person accused of tagging a Hatzalah garage in Crown Heights with anti-Semitic graffiti.
The annual Oholei Torah Dinner is less than a week away, and its office is in high gear with the many preparations. Oholei Torah is honored to have a special guest speaker at this year’s dinner: Rabbi Yehoshua B. Gordon, Shliach to the San Fernando Valley, CA.
A Russian court demanded on Thursday that the U.S. Library of Congress hand back seven precious Jewish texts to Moscow – and, in a tit-for-tat ruling, said it should pay a massive fine for every day it delays.
As Ukraine gears up for national elections, tensions run high and military road blocks have become a fact of life. Thoughts of referendums, annexation and war are on everyone’s minds.
To Sheldon Silver, the powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, it was nothing but a simple case of mistaken identity.
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Naftali Silberberg will lead a discussion on the topic – Chasidic Perspective on Shavuos.
Dovid and Musie (nee Lepkivker) Blecher (Crown Heights)
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