A few months ago, a video was uploaded to YouTube in which a 10-year-old boy in the Philippines sings Avraham Fried‘s English hit “Don’t Hide from Me” at a performance in his school’s auditorium.
While parents ran into stores frantically looking to buy the new “Mitzvah Boulevard,” friends and family of the actors and producers were treated to a special screening of the new video.
A documentary filmmaker and the defense attorney for Sholom Rubashkin appear on Fox News to discuss why they believe the U.S. Supreme Court should agree to hear Rubashkin vs. United States.
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CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present this vintage photograph of a Chossid helping a young Bochur do Kapparos. Can you identify those in the picture, when and where it was taken?
Answer to last week’s photo in the extended article.
The Beis Din of Crown Heights has released a pamphlet – in both English and Hebrew – which contains instructions for many customs and Halachos, as well as the answers to many questions regarding the upcoming Yom Hadin.
A new Sefer Torah is accompanied down Crown St. toward its new home in Oihel Nosson, on Sunday, 7 Tishrei.
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The first time I did Kapores, I awoke in the middle of the night, my Shluchim picked me up in their 15 passenger van with all their little kids, and we drove over a hour to a farm in the next state. The car was silent with sleeping children, my Shluchim, and myself, the lone college student who wanted to do Kapores “the real way.”
On Sunday, Darchei Menachem Mesivta – along with the two oldest elementary classes – learned and preformed a presentation about the Halachos of Kaporos and Shchita.
Hundreds of Jews from the Russian city of Smolensk, located barely 40 miles from the town of Lubavitch, gathered to celebrate the dedication of a magnificent new community center “Beis Malkin,” and its new shul, “Beis Menachem.”
A Far Rockaway artist’s likeness of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, ZT”L, won the top prize for oil paintings at the annual ArtSPLASH art show conducted by the Rockaway Artists Alliance.
Hundreds of Tishrei guests gathered for a Farbrengen with Reb Yoel Kahan, the Rebbe’s main Chozer, in honor of Vov Tishrei – Rebbetzin Chana’s Yahrtzeit.
At bustling intersections where fast-walking, rapid-texting New Yorkers come together with cars, cabs, carriage horses and daredevil bicycle messengers, the city is trying to slip in an emphatic message: LOOK!
Parents of ULY-Crown St. joined together to give the staff a warm welcome for the new year, while benefiting the school as well.
Hundreds of Crown Heights residents flocked to the headquarters of the NCFJE on Eastern Parkway to take advantage of an early-bird special for Kapparos chickens – at the cost of only $5 each, where they were met by protesters from various ‘animal rights’ organizations.
Close to 80 Danish Jews travelled to Malmo, Sweden in solidarity with the city’s Jewish community and in protest of anti-Semitic attacks there.
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For Jewish converts in places like Honduras, Iran or the Australian Outback, celebrating the High Holy Days has never been easier — thanks to a group of Orthodox Jews in Brooklyn.
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