Shabbos at Besht: Is it Ok to Ask Halacha Qs Online?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Motti Lipsker will lead a disscussion on the Halacha and the web – is it ok to ask Halacha questions on an internet forum?
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Crown Heights Riots as Never Seen Before
For most the Crown Heights Riots, or pogrom, is just a story or chapter in the history of our neighborhood, but for those who were in the neighborhood as a the riots raged on unhindered and uninhibited it was a week they would never forget.
CrownHeights.info obtained news footage spanning the week long unrest, telling its story like never before.
5 Sholom Zochors This Week!
Tzvi and Simmie (nee Kershner) Gellman
895 Eastern Pkwy [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Akiva and Rivky Nussbaum
1401 President St [between Kingston and Brooklyn Aves]
Itche and Chana Kayla Hildeshaim
674 Lefferts Ave [between Albany and Troy Aves]
Mendel and Devorah (nee Small) Jacobson (Crown Heights)
Boruch Akiva and Rochel Hayman
123 Route 59 Suffern, NY 10901
Two years before the Crown Heights riots broke out the newly elected New York City Mayor David Dinkins met the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe told the the mayor that Crown Heights a melting pot of many cultures, and it should be a melting pot of good things.
Video: The Rebbe to Dinkins “CH Is a Melting Pot”
Two years before the Crown Heights riots broke out the newly elected New York City Mayor David Dinkins met the Lubavitcher Rebbe. The Rebbe told the the mayor that Crown Heights a melting pot of many cultures, and it should be a melting pot of good things.
World News Outlets Report on 20 Year Anniversary of Crown Heights Pogrom
News outlets worldwide are reporting on the 20th anniversary of the Crown Heights Pogrom. The following is a collection of headlines from both news and opinion sections of the media. While most journalists recognize the nature of the riot – an anti-Semitic, blood libel based pogrom – some, such as Henry Goldschmidt writing for the Huffington Post, have taken to apologizing for the perpetrators of the crime, laying the blame on “pent-up black frustration at white privilege” and the “complexity of race relations in Crown Heights.”
Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe!
CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute presents a series of photos the at the machne Israel Yechidus 1991, photos by Shmidy.
Crown Heights Riots Panel Canceled Due to Furor
Jerusalem Post
A panel on the 1991 Crown Heights riots criticized for the inclusion of African-American activist Rev. Al Sharpton that was set to take place in Westhampton Beach on New York’s Long Island on Sunday has been postponed, The Jerusalem Post learned on Thursday.
Gaza Rocket Hits Ashdod Ger Shteeble – 10 Hurt
Ynet
A rocket fired at Ashdod on Friday exploded in the courtyard of a Gur Shteeble and left 10 people injured. Magen David Adom emergency services said two men were seriously injured. Their names for Tehillim are Shmuel Zev ben Esther, and Yitzchok Meir ben Malka Leah.
Chabad Leads New Wave Jewish Outreach
Rabbi Mayshe Schwartz, Chabad representatives to Brookline, MA.
They are not seeking spirituality, but the 400 young professionals who filled the trendy Splash club in downtown Boston Tuesday night know how to enjoy a good party.
Jewish Student Community Matures at Texas A&M University
A chili booth run by the Rohr Chabad Jewish Student Center attracts students and alumni.
For Texas A&M University graduate student Kate Putnam, the Rohr Chabad-Lubavitch Jewish Student Center has truly been a home away from home.
Baby Girl!
Eli and Chava Leah (nee Sufrin) Rosha (London)
Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Mendy Korer, who will run the Canonbury centre, with his wife Hadasa and their two daughters.
Chabad is opening a house in Islington with the aim of reaching the influx of young Jewish professionals and families moving to that part of London.
Chabad Targets Young Islington Professionals
Jewish Chronicle
Rabbi Mendy Korer, who will run the Canonbury centre, with his wife Hadasa and their two daughters.
Chabad is opening a house in Islington with the aim of reaching the influx of young Jewish professionals and families moving to that part of London.
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, looks forward to Fridays, when he can get home, switch his BlackBerry off and just be Joe - Hadassah Lieberman's husband, father of four, grandfather of 11.
Sen. Joe Lieberman Embraces the Gift of the Sabbath
Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Connecticut, looks forward to Fridays, when he can get home, switch his BlackBerry off and just be Joe – Hadassah Lieberman’s husband, father of four, grandfather of 11.
Rolling Rabbis Bike into 115 Degree Weather
Bike 4 Friendship’s “Rolling Rabbis” rode into Phoenix, Arizona in 115-degree weather, but they had an even warmer welcome lined up for them.
Daily News
The Rev. Al Sharpton may skip a panel discussion in the Hamptons on the 1991 Crown Heights riots after Jewish leaders blasted the organizer for inviting him.
‘Outrage’ May have Worked!
Daily News
The Rev. Al Sharpton may skip a panel discussion in the Hamptons on the 1991 Crown Heights riots after Jewish leaders blasted the organizer for inviting him.
Video: Rabbi Feller Tells His Koufax Story
Jewish.tv: Rabbi Moshe Feller, the chief Chabad emissary to Minnesota, shares personal stories of how legendary Jewish activist, Rabbi JJ Hecht, showed him how “a red-blooded American” could be the model of a passionately committed Jew.
Photos by Yaakov Rosenthal
Pictures from the wedding of Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO) took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
Wedding: Hoffman – Novoseletsky
Photos by Yaakov Rosenthal
Pictures from the wedding of Aryeh Hoffman (Los Angeles, CA) and Rochel Novoseletsky (Denver, CO) took place in the Oholei Torah Ballroom in Crown Heights.
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