We all know that man is a complex creature; inherently schizophrenic. We don’t need to take a course in psychology to be cognizant of man’s inner discord. Regardless of psychological reasons and explanations, man’s natural tug-and-pull is an everyday fact of life.
This Shabbos at the Besht, a lecture will be delivered by guest speaker Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a photo of the Rebbe greeting a family after Maariv near the entrance to his study, circa mid 1970s.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Vayeitzei.
In this photo from the early 1950s, children rally outside 770 Eastern Parkway in support of the Mesibas Shabbos program, an initiative of the Previous Rebbe under the auspices of Merkos L’inyonei Chinuch.
Yisrael (ben R’ Moshe) Kugel (Crown Heights) and Ruthy Groner (Monsey, NY)
L’chaim will be tonight, Thursday, at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St. [hall entrance on Albany Ave.]
Several months ago Rabbi Meir Kaplan invited synagogue newcomer Don Morris to wrap tefillin for the first time. It turned out to be a life-altering experience.
With sadness and a heavy heart we inform you of the sudden and untimely passing of Nochum Leib Feldman, the 4-month-old son of Rabbi Dovid and Rivka Feldman, Shluchim to Odessa, Ukraine.
This past Monday night the car of a Hatzalah volunteer was broken into. The thieves made off with expensive emergency medical equipment, including a $3,000 heart defibrillator.
After a hiatus of almost a year, the infamous Crown Heights wheels thieves are back. Their latest victim: a band new Honda sedan, whose four wheels were all stripped off and stolen.
In preparation for the annual Satmar grand dinner, that will take place once again this year at the Crown Heights Armory on Union St. and Bedford Ave., several activists from the Satmar community arrived at the 71st precinct to meet with the new commanding officer George Fitzgibbon and his lieutenants to help coordinate security for the event.
With his camera on a mysterious contraption, photographer Chaim Perl created buzz at this year’s Kinus Hashluchim group portrait as to what he was up to.
“I’ve never been to a place with people dressed so differently than me yet I felt just as welcome there as I am at my mother’s kitchen table,” writes Times of Israel blogger Elazar Gabay after attending the annual Kinus Hashluchim grand banquet.
Dovi and Esty (nee Levy) Scheiner (Manhattan, NY)
Almost 400 people gathered on Sunday to celebrate the reopening of Young Israel of Brighton Beach, a synagogue destroyed by Superstorm Sandy one year ago, and the completion of a new Sefer Torah.
Four-and-a-half years ago, Gital Dodelson, now 25, of Lakewood, NJ, married Avrohom Meir Weiss, part of a respected rabbinic family on Staten Island. Ten months after the wedding, Dodelson left the marital home with their newborn son, claiming her husband was controlling and manipulative.
Avi Wortzman, member of the Israeli Knesset (Bayit Yehudi) and Deputy Minister of Education, expressed pride in the state of Jewish education worldwide following a trip to New York for the annual Chabad-Lubavitch conference.
