This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 50, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the topics: Mental Illness; Parental Disagreements about Chinuch; Honoring In-laws; Shabbos Calm for a Busy Mom? Alternatives to Yelling.
Hundreds of men and women turned out this Motzai Shabbos for Crown Heights Hatzalah’s annual Melava Malka, health symposium and raffle for $18,000.
Standing in the shadow of American icons, the White House and the Washington Monument, the Vice President of the United States of America thanked the Chabad-Lubavitch movement for erecting the menorah and spoke of its leader the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson, of righteous memory.
Hundreds of people gathered at Chabad of Kendall & Pinecrest in Miami on Tuesday night to usher in the first night of Chanukah, and to honor a native son and journalist who was killed at the hands of the ISIS terror group in Iraq.
This past Yud Kislev was one of the most uplifting and life-changing events in the last twelve years of Aliya history.
Police said the stabbing that occurred early Tuesday morning in 770 Eastern Parkway was not believed to be connected to terrorism, reports the Associated Press. An attorney representing suspect Calvin Peters’ family says he was bipolar.
The NYPD has revealed the identity of the man who was fatally shot last night by an officer inside 770 after he stabbed 22-year-old Yeshiva student Levi Rosenblat in the head with a large knife.
The Kansai (Kinki), historic Jewish community was in shambles when American bombers took out its synagogue and Jewish community center in Kobe, Japan in 1944. It was only four years earlier when the Japanese opened their borders, respecting Chiune Sugihara, their diplomat and Vice Consul to Lithuania. After the bombing, the Jews of the city mourned and fasted, with the war waging, and no one to turn to for assistance.
Esther Zibell’s colorful and imaginative holiday paintings have left synagogue-goers inspired by Judaism, art and a rather ambitious theme—Jewish unity.
This week’s edition of MyLife: Chassidus Applied with Rabbi Simon Jacobson, Episode 43, will air tonight, Sunday, here on CrownHeights.info beginning at 8:00pm. This week Rabbi Jacobson will address the following topics: Eating Disorders, Who Is a Jew, Dating Protocol, Obligation to the Homeless and the Rebbe’s Advice and Blessings.
The Elementary School boys of the Lubavitch Educational Center in Miami have made history, and for a very good cause.
More than 1,000 participants attended a landmark lecture on the topic “Why is Israel So Isolated?” delivered by renowned commentator and radio talk show host, Dennis Prager, at the Westlake Plaza Hotel on behalf of Chabad’s Conejo Jewish Academy located in Agoura Hills, California.
A rookie researcher from S. Paulo, Brazil, made it her goal to locate the once glorious building of the Lubavitch Yeshivah school, known as Tomchei Tmimim, in Otwock, Poland.
In the wake of the death of 3-month-old Chaya Zisel Braun in a terror attack on Jerusalem’s Light Rail, volunteers of the Chabad Terror Victims Project paid a Shiva call to her family. At the Shiva, an idea was born: a new campaign for world Jewry to ‘Add Light’ in little Chaya’s memory.
Coming off a wildly successful year, the Chabad Club of Yeshiva University has already been seeing tremendous success and growth since the start of the new school year.
Cambridge, England, home to one of the world’s oldest and most prestigious universities, has for centuries provided students with access to some of the best opportunities for learning and growth. With the opening this year of The Lehrhaus (‘House of Learning’) Center, Chabad House of Cambridge’s newest development, Cambridge students will now have the equivalent in the Jewish tradition.
In an address to hundreds of senior officials at the Education Ministry in Jerusalem, including Education Minister Shai Piron and the Director General of the Ministry, Rabbi Yoseph Gerlitzky, the head Shliach to Tel Aviv-Yaffo and Chief Rabbi of Central Tel Aviv, bemoaned the education system in Israel, saying that “the existence of the State of Israel alone is not the solution to assimilation. Only an authentic Jewish education instilled with Jewish pride can stem the tide of assimilation.”
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