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January 27 2012

New Mikvah App for iPhone and Android Released


Rabbi Fishel Jacobs announced that a new app for Family Purity is now available. “I've been involved in supervising the halachic development of this online program from its beginning, watching it grow into the largest taharas hamisphacha site,“ says Rabbi Jacobs. ”This is the one single greatest advancement of the Rebbe’s family purity campaign ever.”

January 27 2012

First Bris on Island of St. Martin in Hundreds of Years


St. Martin (AKA St. Maarten) is a Caribbean island divided in two: Half of it belongs to the French and the other to the Dutch. Although the island had a significant Jewish population back in the early/mid 1700s, the island has not had a permanent Jewish community since the last synagogue was abandoned in 1781. That all changed about 3 years ago, when Chabad arrived in town.

January 27 2012

Shabbos at Besht: The Courage to Challenge Hashem


This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Efraim Mintz, executive director of the Jewish Learning Institute, will lead a discussion on the topic, The Courage to Challenge Hashem: Three Conversations that define a Jewish leader.

January 27 2012

Op-Ed: The Birth of Sensationalism


One of the interesting byproducts of our paradoxical times is the birth of sensationalism.

January 27 2012

Can You Identify These Children for Oprah Winfrey?


In the midst of filming for the latest episode of her new show Next Chapter in the Brooklyn Chassidic community, Oprah Winfrey's team caught footage of a few Jewish Children in Crown Heights. According to law, the footage can not be shown without the permission from the children's guardian/s, so Oprah contacted Crownheights.info and asked if our readers would help identify them so that they may be contacted to request their consent.

January 27 2012

Weekly Unique Photos of the Rebbe


Crownheights.info and the Avner Institute present these unique photos of the Rebbe at the Ohel in the early '60s.

January 27 2012

Rabbi Eli Hecht Found Not Guilty in Spanish Court


Rabbi Eli Hecht, his supporters and legal council await the trial in Madrid. Photos: Shturem.

Rabbi Eli Hecht, a Tzedaka fundraiser from Kfar Chabad, Israel who was arrested in Spain on charges of drug trafficking, was aqquited of all charges in a Madrid court today. Rabbi Hecht will return home to his family after the completion of the paperwork process.

January 27 2012

Underground Explosions Occur near School Bus


Crown Heights [CHI] — Two underground explosions occurred at around 8:30 this morning on the corner of Carroll St. near Troy. Ave. The FDNY arrived at the scene and evacuated the surrounding houses because high levels of carbon monoxide were detected.

January 26 2012

Study: Israeli Jews Becoming More Religious

Jerusalem Post

Israeli Jews are becoming more religious, according to a study published Thursday by the Israel Democracy Institute in conjunction with the Avi Chai Foundation. The survey, entitled “A Portrait of Israeli Jews: Beliefs, Observance, and Values of Israeli Jews,” examined levels of religiosity of Israeli Jews in comparison with levels of the past twenty years.

January 26 2012

Davening with Patience in Melbourne


Davening is an essential part of the day, and a major emphasis in Chabad’s theology. With this in mind, a group of yungeleit in Melbourne, who are determined to daven unhurriedly and with focus - and still arrive at work on time, recently established a new minyan for Shachris.

January 26 2012

Judge Slaps City for Anti-Semitism Against Chabad

Hartford Business Journal

Chabad Chevra headquarters in Hartford, CT.

A Connecticut judge has ruled the city of Hartford cannot use its zoning rules to prevent a sect of Orthodox Jews from using a former church as their place of worship, a case observers say had anti-Semitic overtones.

January 26 2012

Boruch Dayan Ha'emes: Mrs. Fania Branover, OBM


With sadness we inform you of the passing of Mrs. Fania Branover OBM of Crown Heights, wife of Professor Herman Branover. The Levaya will pass by 770 tonight, Thursday, at 7:00 PM.

January 26 2012

Houston Chabad House Lives it Up with New Torah

Jewish Herald-Voice

The writing of a new sefer Torah is a joyous occasion that few Jews have the opportunity to witness in their lifetime. However, Houston is blessed with individuals who help preserve future Jewish generations by donating new sefer Torahs for Arks that may have been home only to Torahs on loan.

January 26 2012

Wedding: Rozenfeld - Adler


Pictures from the wedding of Nosson Moshe Rozenfeld (Melbourne, Australia) and Chava Ester Adler (Toronto, Canada), which took place on Monday, January 23, 2012, at the Oholei Torah ballroom.

January 26 2012

Chanchy Bruk's Torah to Be Completed in Montana


On Sunday, 5th of Shevat, friends and family will join Rabbi Chaim Shaul Bruk and the Jewish community of Bozeman, Montana for a once in a lifetime celebration, the inauguration of two new Torahs to the local Chabad House. One of the Torahs is being dedicated in memory of the Shliach's mother, and beloved Beis Rivkah teacher, Mrs. Chanchy Bruk of belssed memory.

January 26 2012

Ottawa Students Feed the Homeless

Shalom Life

Students deliver food to the homeless in the cold.

The Chabad Student Network of Ottawa (CSN) delivered close to 150 hot dogs and peanut butter sandwiches to the homeless on Wednesday, as part of an initiative co-organized by the Jewish fraternity, Alpha Epsilon Pi.

January 26 2012

Rainbow in the Night: Breathtaking New Music Video Takes on Holocaust Deniers

by Sandy Eller

Living in an age where the sixty second sound bites rules and a world of information can be carried in the palm of your hand, we constantly look ahead to the next new obsession, making it more important than ever to stay connected to our roots in order to ensure that as time continues its exorable march forward, the legacy that is our past stays fresh in our minds. As the last living witnesses to the horrors of Hitler’s unspeakable schemes live out their golden years, the movement to deny the Holocaust gains momentum, seeking to eradicate one of the defining periods in Jewish history by revising the annals of history.

January 26 2012

Crown Heights Jews Vs. Their Hipster Neighbors

NY Daily News

Rabbi Joseph Speilman was head of Jewish Community Council. with his wife on their front stoop of their home.

It’s the hipsters vs. the Hasids in Crown Heights. Religious Jews are upset at their new, young neighbors for everything from women wearing shorts; bar hopping and sunbathing.







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