A vandal struck overnight this week, methodically cutting wires wherever they could be found at the future Friendship Circle of Kendall, slicing overhead wires, ripping our electrical boxes, and doing hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages. Vandalism or not, construction will continue.
This Sunday will mark 35 years since the groundbreaking ceremony for the expansion of 770, which took place on the 17th of Elul, 5748.
In preparation for the bright day of Chai Elul – the birthday of the luminaries of chasidus – R’ Yisroel Baal Shem Tov and R’ Schneur Zalman of Liadi, the Alter Rebbe – we present a letter in which the Rebbe explains the unique qualities of chasidus- as it includes all other loyalties and as it permeates all aspects of Jewish life. Chasidus is the heritage of all our people, explains the Rebbe, not the property of any one group.
In August of 2023, an extraordinary scene unfolded at the downtown Hilton in the heart of Warsaw, the capital of Poland. Young Jews, hailing from a dozen distinct countries across Europe, Africa, and Asia, gathered for the Yael Foundation’s annual summer camp.
We are happy to announce that the 5784 / 2023-24 Oholei Torah Community Calendar is now available free of charge at your local Crown Heights stores and at the Yeshiva’s main office. Parents can also pick up their calendars at the upcoming Open House evenings in the Yeshiva.
Join Rabbi Shlomo Ezagui as he breaks down the issues of Quantum Field Theory and how the answer may be found in the times of Mashiach.
Rabbi Yaakov Horowitz serves as a chasidic mentor to the Chabad community of Rishon Letzion, also heading an evening kollel for Chasidut in Bnei Brak and lecturing at the Beit Rivkah seminary in Kfar Chabad. He was interviewed in his home in September 2014.
Limited options are readily available for students looking to fuse action and adventure with meaning and purpose during the summer. That all changed this summer when JewishU students were given a chance of a lifetime, with exclusive JewishU summer experiences in North Africa and the Middle East.
“Cantors Audition”, or in yiddish “Chazonim Oif Probeh”, the entertaining and witty rendition in English was sung by Lubavitch Chazzonim Aryeh Leib Hurwitz and Zevy Steiger.
Facing their second Rosh Hashana under fire, the Jews of Ukraine are preparing for the new year amid constant stress and anxiety. FJC and JRNU will provide thousands of food packages and honey jurs manufactured in a local Ukrainian facility that has been certified for a kosher run.
Rabbi Enan Francis, a famous Lubavitch educator, received the Harold Reingold Yavneh Award for leaders in Jewish Education from the Jewish Federation Of Houston. Listen to his acceptance speech, the award was well deserved.
Over four hundred community members recently celebrated a Siyum Sefer Torah at the Rabbinical College of Australia & New Zealand (Yeshivah Gedolah) in Melbourne. The Sefer Torah was written in memory of the late Mr. and Mrs. Dovid and Ida Perlow, and dedicated by their children.
An IDF soldier is dead, and several others are injured after a ramming attack at a checkpoint near Modi’in.
Every Sunday morning, a group of men in their 20s descend upon the Jewish Community Center of Great Neck, on a peninsula between Manhasset and Little Neck bays off the Long Island Sound in New York. Before the shooting starts, they pause for a hallowed game day ritual: led by their spiritual coach — and the director of the JCC of Great Neck — Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Zevy Geisinsky, they put on tefillin and pray.
Watch this weeks Shazak Parsha Production, with its spellbinding audiovisual storytelling of the parsha and Shazak style animations.
A delegation from the CHK, led by Member of the Beis Din of Crown Heights Rabbi Yosef Braun, has just completed an extensive inspection of the AgriStar plant in Postville Iowa.
Rabbi Lazer Avtzon joined The Crown Heights Insider Podcast to talk about the impact the explosion of shuls is having on our community, and the opportunities that this creates, if only we were willing to come together to grab them.
