New Engagement!
Naftali Zakon (Crown Heights) and Mussy Krazniansky (Manhattan)
L’chaim will be Sunday, at Chabad of the Upper East Side
419 E. 77th St. [between York and 1st Ave.]
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4 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Levi Yitzchak and Rivka (nee Reinitz) Spielman
1276 President St. [between Brooklyn and New York Ave.]
Eli and Roche’le Raskin
615 Lefferts Ave. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Shlomo and Chana Rivka (nee Meyers) Simons
770 Lefferts Ave. [between Troy and Schenectady Ave.]
Levi and Rochel Leah Greisman
701 Montgomery St. [between Kingston and Albany Ave.]
Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. “I've been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. ”This is the one single greatest advancement of the Rebbe’s family purity campaign ever.”
New Mikvah App for iPhone and Android Released
Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. “I’ve been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. ”This is the one single greatest advancement of the Rebbe’s family purity campaign ever.”
St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was abandoned in 1781. That all changed about 3 years ago, when Chabad arrived in town.
First Bris on Island of St. Martin in Hundreds of Years
St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was abandoned in 1781. That all changed about 3 years ago, when Chabad arrived in town.
Shabbos at Besht: The Courage to Challenge Hashem
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute, will lead a discussion on the topic, The Courage to Challenge Hashem: Three Conversations that define a Jewish leader.
Op-Ed: The Birth of Sensationalism
One of the interesting byproducts of our paradoxical times is the birth of sensationalism.
Can You Identify These Children for Oprah Winfrey?
In the midst of filming for the latest episode of her new show Next Chapter in the Brooklyn Chassidic community, Oprah Winfrey‘s team caught footage of a few Jewish Children in Crown Heights. According to law, the footage can not be shown without the permission from the children’s guardian/s, so Oprah contacted Crownheights.info and asked if our readers would help identify them so that they may be contacted to request their consent.
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe
Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these unique photos of the Rebbe at the Ohel in the early ’60s.
Rabbi Eli Hecht Found Not Guilty in Spanish Court
Rabbi Eli Hecht, a Tzedaka fundraiser from Kfar Chabad, Israel who was arrested in Spain on charges of drug trafficking, was aqquited of all charges in a Madrid court today. Rabbi Hecht will return home to his family after the completion of the paperwork process.
Underground Explosions Occur near School Bus
Crown Heights [CHI] — Two underground explosions occurred at around 8:30 this morning on the corner of Carroll St. near Troy. Ave. The FDNY arrived at the scene and evacuated the surrounding houses because high levels of carbon monoxide were detected.
Study: Israeli Jews Becoming More Religious
Israeli Jews are becoming more religious, according to a study published Thursday by the Israel Democracy Institute in conjunction with the Avi Chai Foundation. The survey, entitled “A Portrait of Israeli Jews: Beliefs, Observance, and Values of Israeli Jews,” examined levels of religiosity of Israeli Jews in comparison with levels of the past twenty years.
Davening with Patience in Melbourne
Davening is an essential part of the day, and a major emphasis in Chabad’s theology. With this in mind, a group of yungeleit in Melbourne, who are determined to daven unhurriedly and with focus – and still arrive at work on time, recently established a new minyan for Shachris.
Judge Slaps City for Anti-Semitism Against Chabad
A Connecticut judge has ruled the city of Hartford cannot use its zoning rules to prevent a sect of Orthodox Jews from using a former church as their place of worship, a case observers say had anti-Semitic overtones.
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Boruch Dayan Ha’emes: Mrs. Fania Branover, OBM
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Fania Branover OBM of Crown Heights, wife of Professor Herman Branover. The Levaya will pass by 770 tonight, Thursday, at 7:00 PM.
The writing of a new sefer Torah is a joyous occasion that few Jews have the opportunity to witness in their lifetime. However, Houston is blessed with individuals who help preserve future Jewish generations by donating new sefer Torahs for Arks that may have been home only to Torahs on loan.
Houston Chabad House Lives it Up with New Torah
The writing of a new sefer Torah is a joyous occasion that few Jews have the opportunity to witness in their lifetime. However, Houston is blessed with individuals who help preserve future Jewish generations by donating new sefer Torahs for Arks that may have been home only to Torahs on loan.
Pictures from the wedding of Nosson Moshe Rozenfeld (Melbourne, Australia) and Chava Ester Adler (Toronto, Canada), which took place on Monday, January 23, 2012, at the Oholei Torah ballroom.
Wedding: Rozenfeld – Adler
Pictures from the wedding of Nosson Moshe Rozenfeld (Melbourne, Australia) and Chava Ester Adler (Toronto, Canada), which took place on Monday, January 23, 2012, at the Oholei Torah ballroom.
