In response to the great need and demand for applying Chassidus – the inner-soul dimension of Torah – to our personal and emotional lives, the Meaningful Life Center is launching MyLife, a new series of question and answer videos featuring Rabbi Simon Jacobson, addressing anything and everything on your minds and in your hearts—from the perspective of Torah and Chabad Chassidus.
This Shabbos, Yud Shevat, marks the 100th yahrzeit of Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneerson (1834-1914), namesake of Bais Rivkah, the Chabad-Lubavitch flagship girls’ school.
Living the Legacy of the Rebbe and the Rav is an evening showcasing the special relationship between the Lubavitcher Rebbe and Rav Y. B. Soloveitchik, which will be hosted by the Chabad Club of Yeshiva University.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Reb Yaakov Shmuelevitz, OBM, Shliach to Beit Shean, Israel, at the age of 50.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Reb Shmuel Yitzchok Stettin, OBM, of Montreal, Canada.
Surveillance video obtained by CrownHeights.info shows an African-American male entering the Bnos Menachem school bus and leaving with a pair of Tefilin.
Levi Weingarten (Flint, MI) and Fraidy Tiechtel (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Bais Rivkah
310 Crown St [between New York and Nostrand Ave]
Today marks the culmination of nearly a year of study for countless individuals around the globe – the completion of the Rambam’s codification of Jewish law.
A Siyum HaRambam was held at the Rebbe’s Ohel in Queens last night, which was attended by several dozen members of Anash.
Two London Shuls affected by similar tragedies joined together for an evening of Chizuk: Beis Shmuel, affectionately known as ‘Reb Chuna’s’ and Heichal Menachem, the local Anash Shul in Golders Green.
The 5th annual Miami Torah Experience, directed by Rabbi Immanuel Storfer, took place in North Miami Beach, Florida from Dec. 25 to Jan. 2, with over twenty five participants from various Universities in North and South America.
Moshe and Sarah Chanah (nee Feldman) Gourarie (Toms River, NJ)
For 180 young Shluchim, the ‘Shtetl’ is not merely a thing of the past, pulled from an exciting story book, but rather a living and vital part of their Shlichus.
Yossele and Miriam Bryna (nee Steinmetz) Shuchat (Las Vegas, NV)
Thousands of people around the world this week will finish learning Maimonides’ magnum opus, the Mishneh Torah, which he termed a compendium of all the laws of the Torah. Learning three chapters a day, it took them the better part of the past year to plough through the 1,000-chapter monograph.
Eli and Devorah Leah (nee Kamman) Bogart (New Haven, CT)
Sholom Zochor will be at 672 Eastern Pkwy. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Chaim Sasonkin (Akron, OH) and Mushkee Raksin (Crown Heights)
L’Chaim tonight, Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
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