After months of anticipation and preparation, the third annual Jewish heritage ‘Olympics’ quiz for students of Chabad schools across the former Soviet Union has reached its third and final stage.
A shirtless man was apprehended Friday afternoon after he chased a Jewish man while wielding a large knife and shouting Allah Akbar on Montgomery Street.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he discusses the “why not” of interfaith dialogue. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Over two-hundred state and federal judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, scholars and prison officials attended the first ever Alternative Sentencing Key Stakeholders Summit this past week to advance criminal justice reform nationwide. The summit was hosted by the Aleph Institute, the premier Jewish organization that cares for the institutionalized and their families, founded at the express direction of the Lubavitcher Rebbe.
For the first time in history, Chabad in Russia has printed a Russian-translated Siddur in braille, for the sake of Russian-speaking Jews who suffer from blindness.
In an open letter to the Crown Heights community, Colonel Jacob Goldstein, who served as chairman of Community Board-9 from 1979 until 2014, is urging community members to attend tonight’s monthly board meeting.
Brian Weinberger, an attorney, had been addicted to alcohol and pills for more than a decade until his wife learned of his problem. “The things that I had been hiding came out, and that caused a tremendous upheaval in my family and personally,” said Weinberger, 55, who lives in Scottsdale, Ariz., and has five children.
Recognizing the significance of having the opportunity to celebrate Tes Adar Sheni in a year that actually has an Adar Sheni, coupled with the fact that this is a Shnas Hakhel, Bais Rivkah of Montreal decided to something special this year.
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a letter from the Rebbe in which he convincingly explains how a compassionate G-d can mandate a seemingly “inhumane” law – to annihilate an entire nation, Amalek. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Nissan Mindel Mindel publications, directed by Rabbi Sholom and Frida Shapiro, has announced the publication of a third volume of the popular series The Letter and the Spirit, containing a wide array of the Rebbe’s letters from the archives of Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel, a personal secretary to the Previous Rebbe and The Rebbe, whose responsibilities included the Rebbe’s correspondence in English.
After a long and intensive search process, Yeshivas Kayitz-Kingston is proud to finally announce their head staff for the upcoming summer session.
It’s been a few months since Torah Treasure released a DVD. However producer Chaim Hershkowitz is hard at work developing a new video aimed at Chabad children of all ages.
The Brooklyn D.A.’s Office has dropped hate crime charges against Keny Rochelin, the 26-year-old man arrested for the stabbing of Leiby Brickman in Crown Heights one month ago and another two people in Prospect Park last week, saying the suspect is likely suffering from mental illness and didn’t stab Brikman because he is Jewish.
Next Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, the 76th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s dramatic rescue from a burning Warsaw and his arrival in America. “America Iz Nisht Anderish” was the Frierdiker Rebbe’s statement upon his arrival in America.
A source within the 71st Precinct has notified CrownHeights.info that the man who allegedly stabbed Leiby Brickman in Crown Heights exactly one month ago has been arrested and taken into custody. The suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Keny Rochelin.
For over two thousand years, the Jewish people have waited to return to their homeland. Yet today, we are terrorized for wanting what is ours. Jews are being attacked and killed in the streets of our very own capital, Jerusalem.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 106, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Are Women Inferior? Isn’t “Noshim Daaton Kaloh” derogatory? 12-Steps Continued; Is Resignation or Berating Oneself Ever Acceptable? What Does Tzimtzum Mean?
