Mining magnate Yoseph Gutnick, one of Australia’s most senior Chabad rabbis, has been ordered to pay one million Australian dollars after a judge found him guilty of “misleading and deceptive conduct” in a business deal with a fellow Lubavitcher in Melbourne.
Maxim and Chana (nee Rose) Cohen (Hale, UK)
A special Selichos program for the students of Beis Rivka took place on Motzei Shabbos.
Yossi and Faigy Stern (Bal Harbor, FL)
With the High Holidays quickly approaching and too many people feeling the pinch of the economic downturn, more women than ever have been calling the Pesha Leah Shaitel Gemach, desperate for what is likely to be the only new item they’ll acquire for Yomtov.
On Thursday, Crown Heights Shomrim received a call from a Borough Park resident, who requested assistance with the retrieval of his stolen iPhone.
The Labor Day/West Indian Day Parade in Crown Heights has been marred by violence again, as police were investigating multiple shootings and a stabbing near the route before the parade even began Monday.
Rabbi Shmuel Lesches, Maggid Shiur in Yeshiva Gedola of Melbourne, Australia, has compiled a guide to the laws of the week of Selichos, Erev Rosh Hashana, and Eruv Tavshilin, for the benefit of the wider Lubavitch community.
A 1-year-old boy was killed by a bullet in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville, neighboring Crown Heights to the southeast.
Over 500 Melbourne fathers and sons packed the Werdiger Family Hall this past Motzai Shabbos for an incredible and unprecedented Torah event.
Nissin Kornfeld (Seattle, WA) and Mushka New (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim tonight, Monday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Due to the annual West Indian American Day Parade on Labor Day in Crown Heights there will be a slew of driving and parking regulation changes.
Rabbi Elazar Green has climbed ladders to the top of towering silos, stood atop tractor-trailers and peered at the inner workings of flour-milling machines. As a kosher inspector, he is a stickler for thoroughness and details. He has to be.
A new Sefer Torah was completed Sunday afternoon, in memory of Mrs. Ettel Gurari OBM, mother of Rabbi Mordechai Gurari the Rov of Chevra Shas. The Torah was completed in his home on Empire, and a procession with live music made its way to the Shul.
This Sunday the CH Shaimos truck will be parked on Kingston and President from 11:00am to 8:00pm. Have Sheimos and can’t wait for Pesach? Here is your chance to get it out of your house before Yom Tov!
Shluchim, Anash and Mekurovim from all over western Ukraine gathered last night in the small village of Mezhibuzh to pray at the Baal Shem Tov’s graveside and recite inspirational Slichos in the Baal Shem Tov’s Shul (which was rebuilt a few years ago after having been destroyed during WWII).
At the wedding of Yossi Lazarus and Kim Melamed, which took place about a month ago in Johannesburg, South Africa, the father of the bride got up to give his blessings to the new couple, but instead of a speech – a surprise musical performance ensued.
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