Like anyone, teenagers need to recharge their batteries from time to time, even during the summer when they’re officially “off.” And that’s exactly what a group of young Jewish leaders did as part of a long weekend of inspiration, introspection and rejuvenation.
This photo, taken during the Lag Ba’omer parade of 1970, depicts part of one of the earliest versions of the ‘floats’ that would become ubiquitous in the parades of the later years. This Chinuch-themed float was created by the students Beis Rivkah, and is pulled by an early years’ version of the Beis Rivkah ‘school bus.’
Ukrainian Jews who fled to Mariupol to escape their country’s brutal civil war may have to uproot themselves again as the Ukrainian Army prepares to defend the southeastern coastal city, a local Chabad emissary told The Jerusalem Post.
Young rabbinical students Yossi Rubashkin and Mendel Polter have been spending their summer vacation traveling through the U.S. state of Michigan, bringing the light of Judaism to the few isolated Jews in the state’s rural areas. The following story was told by them, which occurred while they were in the small city of Midland.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 32, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week, Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics of: Fleeing a Jewish Community, Is Israel Still the Safest Place, Alternative Medicine, Music, High Tuition, Being “Mekarev” the Opposite Gender.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Tomorrow, Labor Day Monday, hundreds of thousands will be attending the annual West Indian American Day Parade in Crown Heights. Celebrations begin Sunday evening and run through Monday night. CrownHeights.info has compiled all the info you need to know in order to navigate the gridlocked neighborhood.
Benny and Mor (nee Binder) Greenberg (Pittsburgh, PA)
Thanks to an online voting contest open to the general public, and the efforts of a local Chabad rabbi, the site of the historic North London Synagogue, which was built in 1868 and demolished in 1958, will now have a plaque marking its site.
Colorado State University’s Rabbi Yerachmiel Gorelick and Colorado University’s Rabbi Yisroel Wilhelm dressed up in full football attire in honor of Thursday night’s match between the two rival schools’ teams.
Miami-Dade police say progress is being made in the case of Rabbi Yosef Raksin, HYD, a Crown Heights father-of-six who was shot and killed earlier this month in North Miami Beach while walking to Shul Shabbos morning, but that they are still seeking the public’s help in capturing the two suspected killers.
Mendy (ben Yisroel) Greenberg (Crown Heights) and Ita (bas Heschel) Greenberg (Buffalo, NY)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Chovevei Torah
885 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Ave]
Shortly before Shabbos ended, at around 7:00pm, two 20-year-old Israeli bochurim were walking down Montgomery Street towards Albany Avenue, heavily intoxicated and making quite a ruckus. They were confronted by an African-American man, who told them to quiet down, and an altercation between them ensued.
Ram and Chaya Rivkah (nee Diaz) Rabins (Mexico/Toronto)
Chabad at the Shore held its second annual “Evening of Tribute and Inspiration” on Sunday, August 24th, at the Katz JCC in Margate, NJ.
With all recent events happening in Eretz Yisroel, JEM’s Living Torah team decided to put aside their regular programming and release a series of programs presenting some of the Rebbe’s views on key issues confronting the residents and leaders in Eretz Yisroel today, as well as his encouragement to the Jews living there.
Among the elderly at an old-age home in Gothenburg are survivors of Nazism, concentration camp inmates who were transported to Sweden on the White Buses in the spring of 1945 by the Swedish Red Cross. They were from Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia and other German occupied countries, where they remember their childhoods in once lively Jewish communities that had been decimated.
Shmuli and Aidy (nee Katzman) Bendet (Crown Heights)
Sholom Zochor at 680 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
