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A 25-year-old bochur in the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiev, Ukraine was savagely beaten on his way back from the Seder on the second night of Pesach; he is reportedly in grave condition.
Please say Tehilim for Aaron Alexander ben Avraham.
25-Year-Old Bochur Beaten Nearly to Death in Kiev
A 25-year-old bochur in the Chabad Yeshiva in Kiev, Ukraine was savagely beaten on his way back from the Seder on the second night of Pesach; he is reportedly in grave condition.
Please say Tehilim for Aaron Alexander ben Avraham.
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique, newly released photo of the Rebbe giving over a Chassidic discourse on 6 Tishrei, 5731 (1970); with special thanks to the Minkowitz family.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe!
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present this unique, newly released photo of the Rebbe giving over a Chassidic discourse on 6 Tishrei, 5731 (1970); with special thanks to the Minkowitz family.
Just in time for Passover, the Jewish Children's Museum has opened a new exhibit that provides an interactive lesson in the history of the Jewish people.
New Exhibit Teaches Children About Jewish Roots
Just in time for Passover, the Jewish Children’s Museum has opened a new exhibit that provides an interactive lesson in the history of the Jewish people.
Baby Girl!
Shmuel and Shaina Basha (nee Brook) Lesches (Melbourne, Australia)
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad of West Houston helps Texas' Jewish inmates celebrate Passover.
Video: Passover and Prison… What’s the Connection?
Rabbi Dovid Goldstein of Chabad of West Houston helps Texas’ Jewish inmates celebrate Passover.
Ohio Rabbi’s Books Tied to Holocaust Survivors
As Holocaust survivors languished in displacement camps around Europe at the close of World War II, the U.S. Army gave them some of their first tangible connections to their faith since before the war: passages from the Talmud.
Chabad Group Gives Soldiers 50,000 Matzahs
A Chabad-Lubavitch group has donated 50,000 specially-prepared matzas to the IDF in order to allow every single soldier to fulfill the mitzvah of eating matzah in the best possible way.
Pesach Chumros: Are Eggplants Chometz?
Books with pages spread wide open, perched on balcony railings and shedding imaginary crumbs of not-kosher-for Passover food. Shelves covered in new paper, and masses of aluminum foil on kitchen counters and the stovetop. Signs on doors warning “Do not bring in hametz” – referring to leavened products – with several exclamation marks. All of these were signs in my childhood that Passover was approaching. Above all I remember the near-hysteria that overtook the women and girls in the house, which mounted as the holiday grew nearer while they pursued to the death every stain and crumb.
Erev Pesach: Burning the Chometz
One designated spot to burn chometz was in front of 770, but many residents lit small fires in alleyways around Crown Heights. Our photographer went for a walk.
Community Rabbis met today with their gentile business partners and negotiated the sale of chometz ahead of Pesach.
Erev Pesach: Selling the Chometz
Community Rabbis met today with their gentile business partners and negotiated the sale of chometz ahead of Pesach.
Rabbi Pinchas Feldman, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Sydney Yeshiva Centre, sells chometz to David Clarke, the New South Wales Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Liberal Member of the Legislative Council.
Video: Australian Member Parliament Buys Chometz
Rabbi Pinchas Feldman, head of the Chabad-Lubavitch Sydney Yeshiva Centre, sells chometz to David Clarke, the New South Wales Parliamentary Secretary for Justice and Liberal Member of the Legislative Council.
Lone Soldiers Celebrate Rebbe’s Birthday
A group of fifteen American Lubavitchers in the Israeli Army were hosted for a Farbrengen in honor of Yud Aleph Nissan at the home of Mordechai Botnick. They call themselves ‘the Rebbe’s infantry.’
Another Accident on Empire – Liquor Store Unharmed
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A few weeks ago an accident in the intersection of Empire and Albany sent a pickup truck smashing through the storefront of the liquor store on that corner. It nearly happened again, and surveillance video captured the incident.
New Engagement!
Meir Shlomo Butman (Lud, Israel) and Chaya Kot (Jerusalem, Israel)
