The staff of Camp Gan Israel-New York put on a riveting play for the campers and remaining staff. The play was based on the true story of Mar Zutra II, a leader of the Jewish people in the 5th Century Persian Empire, who led a successful revolt and established a Jewish Kingdom that lasted for seven years.
The style, length, texture, color and quality of a sheitel — and above all, what the wig says about the woman wearing it — are a lot more nuanced than they appear to outsiders. In an effort to demystify the sheitel, what follows is a list (a taxonomy, if you will) of the various wigs American Orthodox women wear, and what each head covering signifies about the woman’s family and community affiliations.
In honor of 20 years since Gimmel Tammuz, the Chabad Shluchim of New York’s Long Island hosted their annual regional Kinus at the Ohel, on Sunday, 7 Av.
An attacker rammed the front end of a massive construction excavator into an Israeli bus on Monday, overturning the vehicle and killing a pedestrian before he was shot and killed by a police officer, authorities said.
Rabbi Shneur Kesselman, Shliach to Malmo, Sweden, was attacked on Motzei Shabbos by men in a passing vehicle. The attackers threw objects and yelled anti-Semitic epithets at him. The incident occurred two days after the city’s main synagogue was vandalized.
Young rabbinical students Naftali Spielman and Michoel Mishulovin have been spending their summer vacation hopping from one Caribbean island to another, bringing the light of Judaism to the few isolated Jews in the region. The following story was told by them about their visit to the island of Trinidad.
NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is investigating an incident where eight swastikas were drawn in the stairwell of a Crown Heights apartment building.
With great sadness we inform you of the very untimely passing of Hatomim Chaim ‘Jaime’ ben Dovid Meir Lipszyc, OBM. He was 50 years old.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 28, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: The Chassidic perspective on the Nine Days, fraudulent healers, how to deal with loneliness, mivtzoyim for introverts, estranged adult children.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Magid Shiur in the Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws and customs of the fast of Tisha B’av for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
As per the directive of the Rebbe to learn about Hilchos Beis Hamikdosh during the three weeks, and to fulfill the Rebbe’s request to make Siyumim until the 15th of Av, a group of camp staff, Anash, and shluchim gathered with Rabbi Shimon Raichik – Mara D’asra of Los Angeles and Rov of Congregation Levi Yitzchak – to continue a years-long tradition and learn Meseches Tomid.
The following story appeared on the Israeli website Radio Kol Chai, as told by Avi Jacob (and translated by Rivka Friedman). Yet another story whereby following Hashem’s will, a disaster was averted.
With the war raging in Israel, Jews around the world are contributing in every way they can. Following the Rebbe’s call, as far back as 1967, to increase especially in specific Mitzvos, Chabad.org launched a campaign where visitors can pledge a mitzvah, with a goal of reaching 25,000 Mitzvos.
The fifth of Av marks the passing of Rabbi Yitzchak Luria, known as the Arizal, who was a foremost scholar of Jewish mysticism and the father of his own school of Kabbalah.
Aspen is known for skiing, stunning vistas and a crowd that includes celebrities of all kinds. Very soon, it will also be known for a brand-new, state-of-the-art building—offering Jewish amenities of all kinds—reflecting the contextual design of Colorado’s rustic landscape.
Dov and Mushka (nee Krinsky) Barber (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 506 Montgomery St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Chabad’s Terror Victims Project is continuing its round-the-clock work in the Holy Land. This week they were joined by a wonderful, courageous group from Toronto led by Rabbi Mendel Kaplan of Chabad of Flamingo, Canada.
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