The annual JewQ International Jewish Knowledge Championship is set to take place today, Sunday, March 26, in Stamford, Connecticut. Over 300 regional finalists from 26 countries worldwide will compete for the title of JewQ champion in a tournament filled with challenging games and crossfire questions.
While on a visit to Pomona, NY, Rabbi Stern – a respected Litvish Rav – told one of the many interactions he had with the Rebbe. This one took place while he was a university student living in New York City.
Rabbi Yossy Gordon, CEO of Chabad on Campus, was sighted near the infamous Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland and a small town nearby named Markowa, putting on Teffilin with visiting Jews.
Murray Fultyn is battling a rare form of blood cancer and is desperately seeking a blood match for a Stem Cell donation. Gift of Life will be hosting a Swab Drive in Crown Heights Today, Sunday, 10:00am – 2:00pm at two locations.
Shui and Sheva (nee Tennenhaus) Kastel from Hallandale Beach, FL had a baby boy!
Watch this incredible encounter between the Rebbe and Senator Rudy Boschwitz on the 20th of Av, 5745 – August 7, 1985.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
The CKids Shabbaton kicked off this morning with a thrilling parents’ program. The annual Shabbaton is the culmination of CKids’ innovative JewQ program and brings together the young finalists and their families from around the world for a Shabbos of unity and inspiration.
The life of the Rebbe has been written, rewritten, then rewritten again many times over as new information, stories, and accounts have come to light. Today we got the slightest snippet of another glimpse into the Rebbe with the revelation of some bare FBI files declassified some time ago.
At a farbrengen of the Rebbe about the need to expand 770, the Rebbe uses very sharp words about people who think that this project has nothing to do with them, rather to someone else. “This is from the reasons that the Beis Hamikdosh was destroyed, and if we don’t build it now, it’s as if we are also destroying the beis hamikdosh”.
We apologize, but your Amazon packages in Crown Heights might be arriving with a slight delay today due to your local Amazon deliveryman being arrested over a stolen package.
Rabbi Dovid Leib Grossbaum was sent on bochurim shlichus to Miami Beach Yeshiva Gedola in years 1974-1976. He later went on Shlichus as a kollel yungerman to be part of new Kollel in Melbourne Australia in 1979. He was also a Meishiv in Smicha program in Melbourne Smicha in years 1997-2007 and most recently a Meishiv Yoreh Deah in 770 for 5 years 2012-2017.
Recently a letter of Reb Chatcha Feigjn, one of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s secretaries in Europe was published. There he writes the following story which he heard directly from the Frierdiker Rebbe.
A two car crash at the intersection of Carroll Street and Schenectady Ave sent a vehicle into a traffic pole Thursday night. no Injuries reported.
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman tells a story to illustrate the importance of a Tomim, bringing the meaning of a Tomim to life on the 103rd Yartzeit of the Rebbe Rashab.
As we enter Chodesh Nissan, the month of Geulah, the Moshiach Chidon is thrilled to announce this years Hakhel Moshiach Chidon, bigger and greater than ever before.
The atmosphere is electric as the JewQ Champions converge on Stamford, Connecticut, for the JewQ Championship event and CKids Shabbaton this weekend.
