Genetic engineering is only permissible by Jewish law when it is used to preserve life, and it should not be used in pursuit of specific personality and physical traits, Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe, Chabad’s scholar-in-residence from Harvard University, said during a talk in Kemeny Hall on Tuesday.
KAWKAWLIN, MI — In a shop just off M-13, in a small township called Kawkawlin Township, Michigan, a team of six artists has worked for the past month to recreate an ancient and significant piece of history now on its way to Crown Heights.
Apparently, the black pinched Borssalino, a familiar sight on the heads of Lubavitcher Chassidim in Crown Heights and worldwide, is the latest fashion craze in town.
It was a beautiful sunny day as I recall. An early spring breeze licked eagerly at passersby like a hungry cat lapping up a bowl of milk. I flipped up the pressed collar of my finest holiday shirt to ward off the affectionate but persistent gust of nature.
Three years after a Lower East Side match that seemed made in heaven, Manhattan’s historic but struggling Sixth Street Community Synagogue and popular Chabad rabbi Simon Jacobson have divorced amid acrimony to rival that of a bad marriage from an Isaac Bashevis Singer tale.
The Rebbe’s call of “Ufaratzta” – reaching out to every Jew wherever they may be, was heard yet again in Crown Heights. This past Motzei Shabbos 30 of the Rebbe’s “Tankistin” gathered together for a special Melavah Malkah.
Jewish students enrolled in the New York City public school system are participating in a winter camp run by the popular Chabad-Lubavitch run Released Time Program.
A fugitive with a knife, who the police said had left behind a calamity of murders and broken lives in Brooklyn, was captured by officers at Times Square on Saturday morning after stabbing another victim on a subway train, investigators said.
A storm of allegations and questions has arisen about the election of Rabbi Yosef Braun. Most recently an ikul, a rabbinic injunction, was imposed on the Vaad Hakohol until further inquiry could be made by a neutral Beis Din.
Excitement is building for the National Teen Shabbaton to begin this Friday in Brooklyn, NY. CTeen’s headquarters in Merkos Suite 302 high atop 770 is a hub of activity as staffers rush to finish the final preparations for the big event.
On January 30, 2011, at 1 pm, at Synagogue Beis Shmuel in Crown Heights, constitutional lawyers Norman Siegel and Earl Ward along with 57th District Assemblyman Hakeem Jeffries and Senator Eric Adams will be coming together to help educate citizens about their rights and responsibilities when stopped, questioned, arrested, ticketed or searched by the police.
On Yud Shevat popular British newspaper, the Times featured a piece on Chabad: Dedicated to global outreach, the Hassidic Lubavich movement is a visible — if not always welcome — presence in cities around the world
Yud Shevat (the tenth of the Hebrew month of Shevat) marks the anniversary of the passing of the Previous Lubavitcher Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn. For Chassidim today, however, the primary significance of Yud Shevat is that it is the day on which the Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, accepted the reins of Chabad leadership 60 years ago.
In honor of 60 years CrownHeights.info and the Avner Institute would like to present a vividly powerful description of a memorable event that took place in 770 over 40 years ago: the completion of the “Sefer Torah to Greet Moshiach,” commissioned by the Previous Rebbe in 1942, and finally completed on the eve of Yud Shevat, which that year also happened to be Erev Shabbos. With special thanks to Rabbi Yossi Lew, Chabad emissary to Atlanta, Georgia, and Dean of the Atlanta Semicha Program.
VIdeo of a speech that the Vice President Joe Biden gave over a month ago where he quoted the Rebbe. He gave the speech at the opening of the new National Museum of American Jewish History. There is a permanent exhibit on the Rebbe.
Messianic vigilantes, brawling Hasidim, and the battle for Jewish Brooklyn
In the 1860s, when the architect Frederick Law Olmsted arrived in Crow Hill, he found a wasteland of balding farms and graying shale, pimpled by shantytowns and pools of pig excrement. The squalor alarmed Olmsted, and together with his partner, Calvert Vaux, he obtained a commission from the city to design Eastern Parkway, a wide, tree-lined boulevard that eventually connected the brownstones of Park Slope to the tenements of Brownsville and brought a semblance of modernity to the neighborhoods in between.
Chanukah, the Festival of Lights commenced on Wednesday evening, December 1 with thousands of men, women & children tapping into the joyous holiday spirit at the American Airlines Arena in Miami where the Miami Heat played the Detroit Pistons.
How did a small Hasidic court become a phenomenon that is fomenting something of a revolution in the Jewish world? The 4,000 Chabad emissaries who convened in New York offer a simple answer: energy, motivation, love and tolerance.
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