After an intense two days, 13 Shluchim couples are heading back to their communities and families, invigorated, energized, rested and armed with new insight and inspiration. These 13 couples were participants in Yaldei Shluchei HaRebbe’s 6th Regional Parent Respite Retreat in Ft. Lauderdale, FL.
Members of the Crown Heights community are invited to the annual Purim sale, the proceeds of which will benefit Keren Simchas Chosson V’Kallah.
Moishe Kramer (Montreal, Canada) and Shaina Brocha Epstein (Columbia, SC)
L’Chaim will be tonight, Monday, at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St. [entrance on Albany Ave.] at 8:30pm.
The cars rolled in and excited chatter filled the air, hugs were exchanged and the 2nd Mayanot Alumni retreat Shabbaton was underway. Over 200 adults and almost 100 children took over the Berkeley Hotel on the New Jersey Shore for a Shabbos of inspiration, learning and farbrengens.
The Story of Rabbi Burt “Simcha Bunim” Siegel, a Reform rabbi, and his journey back to Torah Judaism with the help of the Rebbe’s army of Shluchim.
Chabad emissaries in Irkutsk, southeastern Russia, reached out to the family of 43-year-old Russian-Jewish national Nikolai Brodskii Sunday after he was identified as one of 239 passengers and crew members aboard the Boeing 777 jetliner that disappeared off the coast of Malaysia early Saturday morning.
Yesterday, in Crown Heights’ heart of hearts and in broad daylight, a young Jewish woman was robbed of her phone. Shockingly and disappointingly, only one person on the busy street took notice and chased the thief; no one called for help or offered her any kind of assistance.
For a full month, the Talmidim of 7th and 8th grades of United Lubavitcher Yeshiva on Crown St. participating in the Chayolei Beis Dovid program focused on the theme of “Ani Nivreisi L’shamesh Es Koni” (I was only created to serve Hashem). As a celebration of their great success, on Thursday the Talmidim visited the Artistic Stitch Sports Complex in Queens.
Shimon and Chaya Mushka (nee Begun) Simpson (Crown Heights)
Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Adar II was one of joy and inspiration for the students of Yeshivas Tomchei Temimim in Brunoy, France.
Motty and Raizy (nee Liberow) Rivkin (Crown Heights)
Levi and Fraida (nee Landa) Raskin (Rockville, MD)
Ten of thousands of Jews from all walks of life, gathered in lower Manhattan for prayer rally in protest of the Israeli Governments proposed military draft of all its religious citizens.
Chezky and Mushkie (nee Miller) Golowinsky (Crown Heights)
The ninth episode of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air tonight, Sunday, March 8th (Rosh Chodesh Adar II) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Recreational Drug Use, Women’s Avoda on Purim and Doubts in G-d and Torah.”
Rabbi Eliyahu Yochonon Gurarie, head Shliach and chief rabbi of Hulon, Israel, created a firestorm within the Israeli Chabad community with the release of an open letter decrying the increasingly popular ‘custom’ of spending Pesach at a hotel or resort away from home.
Avromie and Chana Leah (nee Levin) Margolis (Los Angeles, CA)
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