This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 19, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled ‘I Want To Go on Shlichus But Have Nowhere to Go!‘
Colleagues and friends of Officer Jeff Herman gathered in front of the 71st Precinct Sunday morning to mark the 25th anniversary of his death in the line of duty. Officer Herman was gunned down after responding to a 911 call for a domestic disturbance.
Shmuel Super (Melbourne, Australia) and Chaya (bas Motti) Misholovin (Beitar, Israel)
After months of learning the intricate Halachos of koshering meat, the bochurim of the Morristown Smicha program, headed by Rabbi Chaim Schapiro and Rabbi Avraham Hirsh Levin, were privileged to have a hands-on demonstration by Rabbi Yaacov Mendel Zirkind, a local Shochet.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the Shloshes Yemei Hagboloh and Shavuos for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
A 37-year-old African-American man died after being shot multiple times during an argument outside a Crown Heights apartment building Thursday evening, DNA Info reports.
Tonight, over 130 young men and women from Melbourne’s ‘Young-Yeshivah’ community gathered for a Melava-Malka – a first-anniversary celebration of gratitude and support.
Tuvie and Hindy (nee Bruchstat) Greisman (Crown Heights)
What happens when The Rebbe notices a new silver spice-box? A rare film of the Rebbe performing the Havdala ceremony at the conclusion of Shavuos and Shabbos in 1976, and subsequent distribution of kos shel brocha, wine from the “cup of blessing.”
Nachum Yusewitz (Crown Heights) and Chyena (bas Menachem) Blau (Crown Heights)
This morning, residents of Crown Heights left their homes to find that during the night “Pashkvils” (anonymous leaflets) had been placed in the windshields of cars all over the neighborhood. The leaflets were placed by several students of Oholei Torah Mesivta, who were protesting a supposed “slight” to the Rebbe’s “honor” during the school’s group portrait that took place Wednesday.
Eighth graders from Oholei Torah and Lubavitcher Yeshiva competed in a Shoneh Halachos competition. The goal of the program is to increase the knowledge of Halacha and Yiras Shamayim.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Simcha bas Esther, who was recently admitted to the ICU and is battling ‘yene machla,’ and needs our prayers for a speedy and complete recovery.
A year of writing 320,000 letters with a feather and ink on parchment has led to the Stony Brook, NY Chabad Outreach Center’s newest Torah.
Major Gen. Rabbi Mordechai Piron, chief rabbi of the Israel Defense Force during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, as well as a strong advocate for war widows and orphans, passed away on May 27. He was 93 years old.
