From Days Gone By: Wiping Away a Tear
The Rebbe wipes away a tear at his mother’s funeral, Tishrei, 1964.
Please Say Tehillim For…
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for Yisroel Menachem Nochum ben Esther, who is undergoing a difficult medical procedure.
Video: Purim with the Rebbe, 5732 (1972)
Jewish.tv and JEM present an hour-and-half-long excerpt from a 1972 recording of the Rebbe’s Purim farbrengen. The Rebbe tackles the enigmatic essence of the Purim story, and explains the real miracle we are celebrating. Drawing life lessons from how in those dark times, a generation of assimilating Jews were found worthy in G-d’s eyes.
Winners of Hadar Hatorah Purim Raffle Announced
The 16 lucky winners of the annual Purim raffle, the proceeds of which benefit the NCFJE’s Yeshivas Hadar Hatorah in Crown Heights, have been announced.
New Engagement!
Avi Mogilevsky (Toronto, Canada) and Mushky (bas R’ Eli) Rosen (Crown Heights)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at the Jewish Children’s Museum
792 Eastern Pkwy. [corner Kingston Ave.]
Kashrus Alert: Melanie Chocolate Not Certified by OK
The OK has released a statement alerting the Jewish community in the New York area that Melanie Chocolate, whose package bears the OK symbol, is in fact not certified by the OK.
In Wake of Tragedy, Chasidim Write ‘Pan Kloli’ to Rebbe
A Pan Kloli on behalf of all the Rebbe’s Chasidim was read at the Ohel today, in the wake of repeated tragedies that have recently occurred in the Chabad community. Video added
Congregation Agudas Yisroel, located at 456 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], invites all members of the community to hear the reading of the Megilliah this Purim.
PSA: Megillah Reading Every Hour on the Hour
Congregation Agudas Yisroel, located at 456 Crown St. [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves.], invites all members of the community to hear the reading of the Megilliah this Purim.
Purim at C.A.Y., 2013.
Chevra Ahavas Yisroel Purim Party Canceled
For years, hip congregants at a popular Brooklyn Hasidic synagogue packed a raucous Purim party. The annual fete was the biggest event on Chevra Ahavas Yisroel’s social calendar–until this year.
Wall Street Journal
Hundreds Attend Levaya of Beloved Shlucha
Hundreds of men, women and children from the Chabad community in Crown Heights and around the world gathered in front of 770 Eastern Parkway this morning to pay their last respects to a beloved Shlucha and mother of young children, Mrs. Rashi Minkowicz, OBM, who passed away suddenly and tragically late Tuesday night.
Eight Years of Maamorim Celebrated
Every morning at the break of dawn, a group of Chasidim gathers together at Congregation Tiferes Menachem (AKA Re’im Ahuvim) in Crown Heights to study a Maamer of the Rebbe.
Video: The Meaning of Purim
This fantastic new edition of the ‘Elevate Series’ explores the deeper meaning of yet another holiday – Purim. The film is orated by two Shluchim and educators from South Florida: Rabbi Chay Amar, Shliach in Golden Beach, and Rabbi Yakov Garfinkel, Program Director of Lubavitch Educational Center.
Picture of the Day: Seminary Girls Share Joy of Purim
Students of the Chaya Aydel Seminary in Hallendale Beach, FL bring Shalach Monos and Purim joy, along with their principal Rabbi Yossy Lebovics, to residents of the Pembroke Park Retirement Home.
Ad Mosai?! Enough!
Following the rash of recent tragedies that has befallen the Chabad community, an emergency meeting was held between the members of Agudas Chasidei Chabad. A worldwide prayer gathering will take place at the Ohel followed by the reading of a Pan Kloli in the name of all Chabad Chassidim.
Assemblyman Dov Hikind dressed as a "black basketball player," Purim, 2013.
Op-Ed: Don’t Dress Up in Blackface this Purim
‘Tis the season when some are forced to explain the historically-uninformed why dressing up in blackface is something that just plain shouldn’t be done.
by Ben Faulding
File photo: Rabbi Berel Lazar with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin’s Jewish embrace: Is it love or politics?
When even Russian policemen had to pass security checks to enter the Sochi Winter Olympics, Rabbi Berel Lazar was waved in without ever showing his ID.
JTA
Tonight: Watch a Farbrengen of the Rebbe
A group of yungerlite organized a special extended screening of a Purim Farbrengen the Rebbe held in 1972. The viewing will take place in Kolel Menachem on Kingston Avenue and Union Street at 8:45pm and will feature four Sichos.
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