Across Russia, high school students are scheduled to take their government-mandated final exams on the 4th of June. However, while inconspicuous to the average Russian student, this scheduling arrangement created a problem for the thousands of Jewish children enrolled in Or Avner day schools around the country, as this date coincides with the holiday of Shavuos.
Members of the Berkeley High School Chabad Club enjoy pizza while discussing Chabad philosophy with young Shliach Mendel Kehati.
Yakov (ben Shmuel) Kaplan (Baltimore, MD) and Leah (bas Zalmen) Shanowitz (Crown Heights)
Four people, three men and one woman, were rushed to Kings County Hospital after a shooting in a Crown Heights park on Motzei Shabbos.
Oren Hizkiya (NY/Boca Raton, FL) and Mushky Tennenhaus (Hallandale Beach, FL)
The Lubavitcher Yeshiva Simcha Hall on Crown and Albany in Crown Heights was swarming with hundreds of boys this past Thursday evening, 29 Sivan, ready to receive their long-awaited “sefarim vouchers” that they earned this year by attending Yeshivas Erev Yehuda Kalman.
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.”
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