London Rabbi Herschel Gluck, a follower of the Chabad Hassidic sect, does not hide his association with Iran. According to the rabbi, it is the warm relations he has with influential officials in the Islamic republic that enabled him to try and enlist Iran to aid in the release of captive soldier Gilad Shalit.
Mosab Hassan Yousef, the oldest son of Sheikh Hassan Yousef, a founder and leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, was a key member of the movement. Yet he gave up position, power and the love of his parents to spy for the Shin Bet, Israel’s intelligence service.
Yoel Hess (Lomita, California) and Vani Shpigelman (Montreal, Canada)
L’Chaim Tonight Wednesday at Lubavitcher Yeshiva
570 Crown St [hall entrance on Albany Ave]
Won’t you come home, Shlomo Carlebach?
Seventeen years after his death and several generations after he split with the Lubavitcher rebbe in the late 1950s, the charismatic — and controversial — leader of New Age Judaism has regained a haven in his native Crown Heights.
Larry Robbins, a real estate developer and board leader of the Erin Mills Development Corporation, recently pledged more than $1 million to Chabad of Mississauga for an endowment fund earmarked for educational programs.
As the Palestinian Authority prepares to present its request for recognition of statehood to the United Nations, a delegation of Israelis led by MK Danny Danon (Likud) arrived on Monday at the grave of the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Shneerson, in Queens, New York, to pray that the PA’s unilateral move is thwarted.
The 14 young rabbinical students stood on the stage at the Morris and Anita Kaufman Chabad Center in Boca Raton, smiling broadly, as they received a warm welcome from the audience of mostly Chabad rabbis from the tri-county area.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is set to face angry protests during his visit to New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly. United Against Nuclear Iran, an advocacy group, has demanded that managers of the upscale Warwick Hotel refuse to host Ahmadinejad and his delegation and have urged a boycott of the international hotel chain.
Chabad Youth and Yeshivah College in Melbourne, Australia recently completed a four story, $6 million state-of-the-art building locatedin East S. Kilda.
A Brooklyn thief who needs his head examined swiped a $2,200 Jewish fur hat with the owner’s name written inside – and then tried to sell it, prosecutors say.
An annoying Rosh Hashanah message from the official fruits of the Jewish New Year.
Mayor Michael Bloomberg is shrugging off a report that the squeegee men have returned to the streets of New York.
As an avid reader of CrownHeights.info, I really enjoy to read the many articles, op-eds, news items etc. that are posted daily. As a little refresher from the “Shidduch Crisis” articles I find myself reading a little too often these days, and those criticizing what our community has turned into, I’ve decided to write about a wonderful, positive experience I just had.
“Rambam 7:40” recently marked the conclusion of its seven month Rambam drive at the Rabbinical College of Australia & NZ (Yeshivah Gedolah of Melbourne), at a Farbrengen held on Motzei Shabbos Chai Elul.
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