A terrible calamity has befallen one Florida Chabad House when an uninvited man showed up at their Purim party, became highly intoxicated, and subsequently died. Local news outlets pounced on the story, and a huge whirlwind of myths and speculation about what happened is spiraling out of control. In an exclusive interview with Crownheights.info, the local Shluchim described in minute detail exactly what transpired that day.
One of the United Synagogue’s most high-profile rabbis, Yitzchak Schochet, says he has not applied to be chief rabbi, claiming that the United Synagogue of Great Britain would not accept a Lubavitch candidate.
Congregation Ahavas Moshe in Crown Heights, commonly known as The Maple Street Shul, will be holding their annual Melave Malka this week.
Yossi and Basya (nee Greenman) Hyams (Elizabeth, NJ)
The annual Rambam learning cycle has just begun a new and there is an easy and fun new way to keep up with the one-chapter-a-day of the Rambam’s Mishnah Torah.
Kol Menachem is having a big sale on their award winning Haggadah ahead of Pesach. To order your Copy Today click here!
In the late 1980s, years before the internet boom and long before anyone would pair Jewish outreach to computing, Rabbi Yosef Y. Kazen could be found sitting before a mammoth computer, dispatching Jewish texts across the globe.
Levi Newman (Long Beach, California) and Sorah Chaya Procel (Melbourne, Australia)
L’Chaim tonight, Thursday at Empire Shteibel
489 Empire Blvd [between Brooklyn and New York Ave]
A recent act of vandalism won’t stop a Folsom, California synagogue from practicing their faith.
In honor of the month of Adar, a reader sent us this humorous poem (re: op-ed) about the things Lubavitchers talk about in Crownheights.info op-eds:
Beth Rivkah High School of Montreal, in conjunction with Chaya Mushka Seminary, presented an amazing and truly inspiring production – “Solika Hatzadekes.”
Mordy Richler (Los Angeles, CA) and Shaina Simons (sydney, Australia)
In celebration of its 25th year in western Monmouth County, NJ Chabad is focusing on the expansion of its programs for teenagers.
This past Sunday evening, the 17th of Adar, close to 100 men and women, members of the Monsey Chabad community, gathered together to honor Shimon and Devorah Kroll, Baruch Akiva and Rochel Hayman and Avraham and Devorah Hayman for their support of Yeshivas Menachem Mendel Lubavitch of Monsey.
The Chabad on Carlisle-Jewish Russian Community Centre in Melbourne, directed by Rabbi C. E. Gorelik and Rabbi Y. Sufrin, hosted two Purim functions which were attended by over 160 people.
Rabbi Bentzion and Devorah Stolik of Crown Heights, together with their young daughter Chaya Mushka, will be moving to Aspen Hill, Maryland, where they will open a Chabad House and serve the local Jewish community will all their spiritual needs.
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