Exactly 50 years ago, the Rebbe launched a bold new initiative in Jewish education. Twelve passages — drawn from the Torah, the Sages, and Chassidus — covering the fundamental tenets of Jewish life, were collected for children to recite, memorize, and pass on to others.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
After a courageous and prolonged battle with illness, Devorah Leah Reiter, the Shlucha of the Chabad Jewish Learning Center in Roslyn Heights, of blessed memory passed away at just 47 years old. She leaves behind her husband and nine children.
Join the childrens’ Achdus gatherings, for children in Pre 1A – 5th Grade, b’ezras Hashem this Shabbos, 29 Iyar.
I heard this story a few weeks ago from Rabbi Nissan Mangel Sheyichye at his weekly Shabbos farbrengen in Ksav Sofer. And I decided, being that it is a story of the Baal Shem Tov, I will publish it on the Shabbos before the first day of Shavuos, which is the Baal hem Tov’s yahrzeit.
Wednesday night’s global Mivtzah Chinuch event, hosted by the Menachem Education Foundation with the Merkos Chinuch Office, gathered nearly 4,000 people from around the world to hear about how each person can fulfill their role in Mivtzah Chinuch.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman takes on an age-old question: what makes a Jew special? What about the Jewish Nation unites them as one?
A Tshura was distributed at the Nemes – Mishulavin wedding, and is presented it here for the wider Chabad community.
On Tuesday evening, hundreds of community members gathered at MS 61, located at 400 Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights, for a heated town hall meeting regarding a proposed 140-bed single adult men’s homeless facility expected to open in two weeks at the Ramada by Wyndham in Crown Heights, Brooklyn.
Each farbrengen is a priceless treasure. It was the highlight of the week for those fortunate to be present when the Rebbe farbrenged. Nowadays, these farbrengens are preserved in thousands of pages, waiting to be relived by every chossid.
Rabbi Shimon Rivkin, Executive Director of CTeen International at Merkos 302 and Mashpia in Oholei Torah Mesivta, heads to Melbourne this weekend to lead a grand Shabbos Achdus program ahead of Shavuos, marking forty years since the Rebbe’s call for Shabbos Achdus.
The slain soldier is named as Staff Sgt. Negev Dagan, 20, of the Golani Brigade’s 12th Battalion, from the southern community of Dekel.
Shuki and Chaya Sara (nee Marasow) Friedman from Baltimore, MD had a baby boy!
To answer the call of shluchim and community leaders worldwide, the Moshiach Office at Merkos 302 has prepared resources in the spirit of “One Shabbat to bring Moshiach” (Yerushalmi Taanis 1:1) for use in communities this Shabbos.
As we are counting the days and the weeks now – days between Pesach and Shavuos, we share a fascinating letter of the Rebbe on the very unique quality of TIME.
Mrs. Channa Arnold was a Judaic-studies teacher in Los Angeles for over forty years. She was interviewed in September 2011.
To commemorate the second yahrtzeit of Rabbi Moshe Kotlarsky ע״ה, CYP International at Merkos 302 is offering their special Shavuos curriculum free of charge for shluchim worldwide l’ilui nishmaso.
