Baby Boy!
Elchonon and Pnina (nee Abush) Komar (Sydney Australi)
Guide: Times, Halachos and Customs for Shavuos
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released an instructional guide – in both English and Hebrew – which contains Halachos and Minhagim pertaining to the Yom Tov of Shavuos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming holiday.
Would the Following Guest Please Proceed to Window X
The number “547” flashes across the display. “It’s finally my turn,” you say to yourself, having waited over three hours just to register your new car at the DMV. But as you get up to approach the window, it dawns on you that “547” are the first three digits of your cellphone number.
Video: Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on the holiday of Shavuot.
Video: R’ Leibel Bistritsky and the Rebbe
Rabbi Leibel Bistritsky was interviewed multiple times for the My Encounter with the Rebbe project. This interview took place in his home in Israel in the summer of 2006.
Spirits Lifted in Shabbos of Unity in Morristown
Over 200 bochurim from the Yeshivas of Baltimore, New Haven, and Tomchei-Tmimim Morristown, along with many other bochurim from the tri-state area, came together for a Shabbos Achdus in Morristown, New Jersey, in connection with the Rebbe’s bakasha nafshis in 5746: to arrange events that promote achdus on the Shabbos before Shavuos.
Boruch Dayan Hoemes: Rabbi Leibel Bistritzky, 86, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Rabbi Yehudah Leib Bistritzky OBM. He was 86 years old.
Op-Ed: Judging Our Role Models
Today’s youth, as the youth of yesterday and the day before, have many complaints. The complaint heard loudest is about the lack of role models.
Over 5,000 Children Worldwide Participare in Shavuot Rally
From Canada to Melbourne and from London to Crown Heights, over 5,000 children from 48 Chabad schools and hundreds of Yaldei Hashluchim of MyShliach worldwide tuned in for a special Tzivos Hashem Rally in preparation for Shavous.
Photos: Shabbos Achdus in Brunoy
Bochurim gathered in Brunoy, France for a Shabbos Achdus of learning and Farbrengens to welcome Moshiach.
One-Armed Warrior: An Israeli Soldier’s Tale of Struggle and Perseverance
When a suicide bomb ripped through a pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem in 2001, killing 15 and wounding 130 more, 13-year-old Izzy Ezagui, who was visiting from America, found his calling.
New Initiative Launched to Protect Children in Camps
A new initiative has been launched by the ‘Jewish Community Watch’ (Crown Heights Watch) aimed at protecting children from abuse in sleep-away camps. The new initiative is called Project E.M.E.S., and is endorsed by Rabbis and Doctors.
Please Say Tehillim For…
Please take a moment and say a Kapitel Tehillim for a Refuah Shlaima. Chaim Yehuda Leib ben Shifra Bistritzky Who suffered a serious heart attack.
New Engagement!
Nochum Greenberg (Buffalo, NY) and Alti Shur (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim tonight, Sunday at Beis Levi Yitzchok
556 Crown St [entrance on Albany Ave]
4 Guns, Nearly a Kilo of Narcotics found in CH Apartment
Last week officers from the 71st Precinct executed a search warrant in a Crown Street apartment, there they found four firearms and nearly a kilogram of illegal narcotics and cash – all of which were sized, and one man was arrested.
Lechaim: Boubli – Putter
Photos from the Lechaim of Binyamin Boubli (Israel/France) and Sara Putter (Crown Heights) which took place last week at Lubavitcher Yeshiva.
Lechaim: Dray – Mergui
Photos from the Lechaim of Chaim Dray (Paris, France) and Sheina Mergui (Paris, France) which took place at 1568 Carroll St.
