This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 156, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines Morality? How to Distinguish Between Pure Faith and Meshugas? What is My Role as a Step-Parent? Why is Organ Donation Prohibited When We Are Taught to Love and Help Another?
Jewish students from universities across North America found inspiration and a renewed commitment to live a Jewish life on a recent heritage trip to Poland.
A new college Jewish club opened at Moscow’s prestigious School of Economics university last week. Over 250 students registered for the club that will host cultural and social events, organize lectures and classes.
The Jewish community in Paris, France, held a memorial ceremony to mark five years since the brutal murder of a father and three young schoolchildren by an Islamic terrorist in Toulouse.
Marking 16 years to the restoration of the Marina Roscha Shul in the capitol city of Moscow, Russia, supporters and friends were honored in an appreciation event aboard a ferry boat which sailed on the Moscow River.
With sadness we inform you of the untimely passing of Rabbi Avrohom Boruch Junik OBM, a resident of Crown Heights. He was 60 years old. Levaya times added.
Opposition Leader and head of the Zionist Union party, Mr. Isaac (Bougie) Herzog, was invited by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Parliament to visit Moscow. During his visit he toured the Jewish Museum, the Jewish Chesed Center and other Jewish institutions. He was greeted by the Chief Rabbi of Russia, Rabbi Berl Lazar, who stands at their helm.
Rabbi Asher Federman, director of Chabad Lubavitch of the Virgin Islands in St. Thomas, begins his daily routine of mustering up men well before the start of morning minyan at 7:30 a.m.
This Motzoei Shabbos, United Lubavitcher Yeshiva held their annual Father and Son Melave Malka for the 2nd 3rd and 4th grades.
It is a story taken almost straight out of Hollywood. A young Lithuanian rabbi arrives in a “Wild West” frontier town, some 7,000 miles from his home and his family, with only a Torah scroll and a few sparse belongings in his possession. Four generations later, his great-great-grandson returns to help bring Purim to his forbear’s city.
Beginning at 19 years old, when he was the youngest synagogue minister to ever serve in the United Kingdom, Rabbi Dov Lent held various rabbinical and teaching positions for twenty years. In 1987, with the Rebbe’s blessing, he opened a dairy company, which is still running today. He was interviewed by JEM’s My Encounter with the Rebbe project in his home in March of 2015.
Csanád Szegedi grew up in a mildly racist milieu in Miskolc, a midsized town in northeastern Hungary. His father was the scion of an old noble family of Magyars, a point of pride for the young Szegedi, who was born in 1982 and came of age in the chaotic years following the fall of the Soviet-influenced Hungarian People’s Republic.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 152, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: What Defines Normalcy? What Can Be Learned from the Unusually Warm Weather This February? Was Moshe Rabbeinu Focused More on His Community Than on His Family? Is Tanya Directed More to Men Than to Women?
Jewish women throughout the Former Soviet Union gathered last week for events that combined learning, relaxing and celebrating.
Mar del Plata, located in Argentina’s Buenos Aires Province, is a bustling beach city found on the country’s east coast. With a permanent population of 750,000, and nearly eight times that number of annual tourists, Mar del Plata is the seventh-largest city in Argentina and home to an estimated 5,000 Jews, who now have their own Chabad branch.
Rabbi Zalman Bluming is a man on a mission. For the past 15 years, the energetic rabbi and his wife Yehudis have welcomed students to the Rohr Chabad at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and Duke University. They have housed and fed hundreds of patients and their families at Beit Chanoch, the House of Healing at Duke Medical Center. In between semesters filled with classes and rousing Shabbat meals, the rabbi leads Israelinks trips for an international roster of college students. The two also direct a thriving community for the families and researchers who call this small North Carolina city home.
Rabbi Chaim Bruk, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of Montana, gives a glimpse into the larger-than-life personality of his prolific grandfather, Rabbi Shimon Goldman, OBM, who passed away recently. Rabbi Bruk relates the tremendous impact his grandfather had, and continues to have, on him, as well as all who had the merit of knowing him.
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