Last night Mordechai ben David and the 8th Day performed before a sell-out crowd in the Brooklyn School of Music. Together they performed MBD’s “Timcheh Es Zecher Amalek” and the 8th Days “Tracht Gut”. UPDATE: Videos!
Today, the 30th of Shvat, marks 7 years to the cold blooded murder of Efraim Klein HYD, a resident of Crown Heights who had been a staple in the community and a figure known and liked by all, who was shot and killed. The investigation into his murder has long since gone cold.
Some teacher aides who are paid by the New York City Department of Education say their paychecks have been frozen for months. UPDATE: Despite the city saying that they will be paid within a week back on January 18th, Crown Heights based providers STILL have not been paid.
Chabad Shluchim to Caracas, Venzuela Rabbi Yosef and Goldie Slavin – who have been publishing a weekly Dvar Torah video for the past five years, marked the Bar Mitzvah of their son Dov with a special tribute in the Tu B’shvat Video.
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The soul is ruled by the mind, the heart and the liver. The liver? Rabbi Asher Crispe, in his humorous, scholarly style explains how the new world of neuroscience and the old world of Torah and Kabbalah are joined.
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this weeks Parasha, Beshalach, titled ‘Problems Shmoblems’. Update: Video embed fixed!
Thousands of city kids were left stranded this morning when school-bus drivers and matrons went on strike, leaving parents scrambling to find other ways to get their children to school.
Two years ago the world of Jewish music experienced a great loss with the passing of Moshe Yess, a beloved entertainer and gifted musician whose troubadour – inspired audiences throughout the world. Yess, who is best known for the song “My Zaidy,“ was a Baal Teshuva, who lived in Montreal, Canada, and was working as a performer and teacher until his untimely passing.
In 1940 Chabad had begun its inception in the United States, there at the very beginning was Rabbi Dr. Nissan Mindel who had documented and preserved much of the history of Chabad in America. Today, after much anticipation and great demand, a book devoted to these works will be published.
In honor of the 200th Yohrtzeit of the Alter Rebbe on Chof Daled Teves, Kehot published a Maamar, which was compiled by Vaad Hanachos b’Lahak and was given over by the Frierdiker Rebbe on the eve of Chof Daled Teves in the Tzemach Tzedek Shul in Baltimore before a crowd of around 1,500 in the year 1930. Update: English translation of the Maamar added.
Hundreds of women turned out tonight for the auction and evening of entertainment benefiting Lubavitcher Yeshiva’s PTA. Following the auction viewing, which was compliment by delicious hot food, the crowd packed into the smaller hall for the comedy of Mendy Pellin. Update: Winners list in the Extended Article!
The Crown Heights Young Entrepreneurs held its first all women’s event this past Wednesday at CHYE’s center. The event featured a panel of three successful Crown Heights business owners — Mrs. Aliza Blizinsky of Judaica Creations, Mrs. Linda Gutliezer of Apple Drugs, and Mrs. Chaya Abelsky of Triumphant Journeys.
Hundreds of women turned out Sunday night for an auction and evening of entertainment benefiting the PTA of Oholei Torah. Over 100 prizes were offered and at the conclusion of the evenings entertainment the winners were drawn. Update: Winners list added.
One tradition of Judaism gets a fanciful update every year by the Chabad Jewish Center in Needham, Massachusetts, with its Hanukkah menorah-lighting ceremony on the downtown common. Each time, the menorah changes: Last year, it glowed a luminous blue-green, and past versions have been made from Legos, ice, and balloons.
Salvatore Perrone, AKA “John Doe Duffel Bag,” tha man accused of murdering three Brooklyn shopkeepers (two of whom were Jewish), has been frequenting shops around Boro Park over the last few months, sources have told CrownHeights.info.
On the sidelines of the International Conference of Shluchim, a group of Shluchim and lay-leaders gathered quietly for a special breakfast. Dubbed the “JEM Curators,” the invitation-only conference was attended by individuals who have assisted JEM’s efforts to record, preserve, and share the video, audio, and photographic recordings of the Rebbe’s life – and by Shluchim who have assisted on their own or invited others to assist.
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