Sold Out Crowd at Chabad’s Avenue J Concert
Avenue J, the first-ever in Florida “Alternative Jewish Rock Concert”, filled The Barnacle grounds with enthusiastic fans Tuesday, January 14, in Coconut Grove.
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The Tanya Revolution! Bring The Tanya Into Your Home
Bar Mitzvah Gallery: Hatomim Yisrael Enayatian
Pictures from the Bar Mitzvah celebration of Hatomim Yisrael Enayatian of Great Neck, NY, which took place Thursday night at the Jewish Children’s Museum in Crown Heights.
Melbourne Rov Inspires London Community
Members of the London Jewish Community gathered for a Siyum HaRambam Seudah, incorporating a Yud Shevat Farbrengen, organized by the Shluchim to Yeshiva Gedolah of London in conjunction with Beis Lubavitch.
Montreal Girls Reach Outward and Inward
Four busloads of Elementary students from Beth Rivkah of Montreal visited 10 senior citizen centers and nursing homes, in honor of Yud Shvat. The children interacted with the residents in an amazing way and brought simcha and encouragement to them.
Video: A Word on the Parsha with Rabbi Minkowicz
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Yisro. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: How can one overcome the feeling of being in exile and prepare for G-d to take us out of exile?
Story: Basi L’gani on the Garden State Parkway
It was Motzoei Shabbos Yud Shvat. So I did not think it at all odd that I found myself explaining the concepts of “Chabad” and “Shliach” to a state trooper on the Garden State Parkway.
by D. Gorkin
Lecture Lifts Spirits of Niagara Falls Jewish Community
On Thursday evening, Tu Bishvat, Chabad of Niagara Falls hosted a lecture on the topic: Planting Seeds of Happiness, delivered by renowned lecturer and author Rabbi Lazer Gurkow.
This Weekend: ULY’s 2 Day Extravaganza
Lubavitcher Yeshiva goes out of their way to make an event that shows the appreciation for the community’s support of the Yeshiva. This 2 day event promises to have something for everyone.
4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Avremi and Bracha (nee Nemes) Slavaticki
Unzer Shul, 1395 Carroll St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Zalmi and Rochie (nee Hershkop) Negin
Chovevei Torah, 885 Eastern Parkway [between Albany and Troy Aves.]
Levi and Leah (nee Silberstein) Schapiro
1429 President St. [between Kingston and Albany Aves.]
Mendy and Rivka (nee Minkowitz) Baron
369 Crown St. [between Brooklyn and New York Aves.]
Eyes That See and Ears That Hear: The Key to Divine Triumph
We all encounter moments of inspiration that can lift us above the everyday mundane routine; moments of mystical expression that contain the potential to change our entire perspective. But instead of stopping to observe, we just keep moving, oblivious to the presence of heavenly splendor and grace.
by Rabbi Yoseph Kahanov - Jax, Florida
Shabbos at the Besht: Is Man a Tree?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Boruch Jacobson, director of Chabad of Hunter College in Manhattan, will lead a discussion on the topic: Is Man a Tree?
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe Farbrenging on Tu B’shvat, 1982.
Gala Dinner Fetes 22 Years of Chabad in Riverdale
The Garden Terrace Room at the New York Botanical Garden was filled to capacity this past Motzai Shabbos, Yud Shevat, January 11, 2014, as 300 supporters and friends gathered to celebrate Chabad of Riverdale’s 22nd anniversary. Among the distinguished guests were Assemblyman Jeffrey Dinowitz, Councilman Andrew Cohen, and State Senator Jeffrey D. Klein.
Bais Rivkah Marks 100th Yahrzeit of Namesake
Thousands of Bais Rivkah students, from Headstart through Seminary, gathered in 770 Thursday for a Kinus of Torah, Tefillah and Tzedaka celebrating the 100th Yahrtzeit of the school’s namesake, Rebbetzin Rivkah Schneersohn, OBM.
A Rite of Passage Taken 75 Years Late
Bar mitzvahs, and bat mitzvahs for girls, are key moments in the lives of those who practice Judaism. But for one Queens man, a bar mitzvah was elusive — for more than seven decades.
Queens Chronicle
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U.S. Refuses to Return 7 Chabad Books to Russia
The U.S. officially refused in 2013 to return seven books from the so-called Schneerson Library, i.e., a collection of old Jewish books and manuscripts built by Rabbi Yosef Yitzhak Schneerson in the Russian Empire at the end of the 19th century, that were lent to it in 1994, said an attorney representing the Russian State Library and the Culture Ministry in a lawsuit against the U.S. Library of Congress at hearings at the Moscow Arbitration Court on Thursday.
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Undercover Cops Handing Out Seatbelt Tickets
A pair of police officers driving around in an unmarked vehicle are handing out tickets to motorists not wearing a seatbelt in the Crown Heights area, a concerned neighborhood resident told CrownHeights.info.
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