All educators want not only to teach students a particular subject but to reach and communicate with them; to mechanchim and mechanchos reaching students is not just a professional need it is an imperative. They are charged with not only teaching Torah but forging the next link in the chain from Har Sinai.
This Shabbos afternoon at the Besht Center Rabbi Naftali Silberg will lead a talk on the surprising truth about miracles.
One of the most ancient tales from the Torah has been illuminated in the newest style of CGI animation to form a three-dimensional world where characters and cities exist in an animated platform on the computer. It’s the combination of old text with modern animation that’s turning heads.
Police are investigating allegations of abuse by a former teacher at a Jewish boys’ school in Melbourne who is currently in a U.S. prison.
This is how the NYPD fights crime, by have no record of it! It seems that being taken away by ambulance after a brutal beating and calling 911 is not enough for the cops to hear about an incident in which police officers actually responded to. CrownHeights.info has learned that more than four days after the incident took place neither the local precinct, nor the Patrol Borough of Brooklyn South have any idea that this crime took place.
A Jewish wedding celebration in Dnepropetrovsk this month bound two families whose grandfathers were once persecuted by the very government now embracing the religious revival taking place in Ukraine.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — For the second time in four months the Crown Heights branch of Apple Bank was robbed. The suspect made off with an undisclosed amount of money.
Hull Hebrew Congregation will be without a full-time rabbi for the first time in its history after having to make its minister redundant for financial reasons.
Blame the potato chip. It’s the biggest demon behind that pound-a-year weight creep that plagues many of us, a major diet study found. Bigger than soda, candy and ice cream.
A group of 100 New Jersey children with special needs will send off a trio of amateur cyclists Sunday by riding alongside for a very short portion of their visitors’ cross-country trek.
From the Inbox: I can write about the pain of watching friends and younger siblings becoming moms, or the segulos I tried, but I’d rather talk about some of the upsides of the miserable reality of infertility.
At the 10th Annual Chabad on Campus International Conference, over 250 Shluchim and Shluchos, separately, participated in dozens of informative and inspirational workshops while over 300 children of all ages enjoyed fun camp activities.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Two thugs accosted a Jewish boy Monday night, putting a gun to his head and brutally beating him on his head and body. The victim recounted his terrifying ordeal in detail to our reporter.
While hundreds of Bocherim are about get sent on Shlichus, many are left behind. One Bocher who calls himself Zalman sent us this email from his friend’s iPhone (who is getting Shlichus).
With the JLI National Jewish Retreat less than two months away, over 60 Chabad Houses across the US,Canada and abroad have already signed up as delegates. The five day retreat (August 16-21) combines the best of Jewish learning with a luxurious setting at the Hyatt Regency in Old Greenwich, CT. To quote a participant from last year, “It is more fantastic and more amazing than I could ever imagine.”
