Nightly Adar Dancing Kicks Off

X

<img src="https://media.chabadinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/messaging-whatsapp.svg" loading="lazy" alt="" class="icon">

Chabadinfo Updates

<img src="https://media.chabadinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/messaging-whatsapp.svg" loading="lazy" alt="" class="icon">

Crown Heights Updates

When The “Minhag Chabad” To Say Pirkei Avos Every Week Start?

Beis Medrash

Zoom

It Is Minhag Yisorel to learn Pirkei Avos following Mincha on the Shabbosim between Pesach and Shavuos. But the minhag Chabad is to continue learning Pirkei Avos through the summer till Rosh Hashanah, but where did this Minhag come from? Rabbi Gershon Avtzon explores • Watch

Three IDF Soldiers Killed on Egypt Border

BD''H

Zoom

Lia Bin-Nun, Ohad Dahan, and Uri Yitzhak Iluz named as the three IDF soldiers killed by an Egyptian police officer on the Egypt-Israel border • Full Story

Picture of the Day

InFocus

3 | Slideshow

On Friday, Former Defense Minister and alternate Prime Minister, MK Benny Gantz stopped by the Mivtza Tank on Broadway Manhattan ran by Rabbi Yehuda Pevzner and put on Tefillin with the help of the Bochurim manning the tank • Photos, Video

The “Surprise Farbrengen” of Naso 5751

Beis Medrash

5 | Slideshow

On Shabbos Parshas Naso 5751, hours after the regular Shabbos Farbrengen and Mincha had finished, a few minutes before Shkia, the Rebbe MH”M Shlita suddenly entered the Shul, with a kvort full of water in his left hand and a towel on his arm for a surprise Sicha full of special expressions about Moshiach • Expressway 358 Magazine presents a Yoman of the extraordinary event • Full Article

Oholei Torah Staff Unites with a New Sefer Torah

Crown Heights

184 | Slideshow

In the spirit of Hakhel and following the joyous Yom Tov of Shavuos, the members of the staff and faculty of Oholei Torah, along with their families, gathered for a siyum and hachnosas sefer Torah written in their honor and zechus. The event took place on Isru Chag HaShavuos • Full Story, Photos

Is a “Knas” A Legitimate Educational Tool?

Beis Medrash

Zoom

Our son is in Yeshiva and has a hard time waking up in the morning and coming to seder. The way the Hanhala is dealing with it is by giving monetary knassim (fines) to my son. Besides the fact that it seems to be punishing us more than him, we find this idea to be counter-productive: Wouldn’t having to make up the material be much more productive? • Rabbi Gershon Avtzon answers in this week’s Chinuch and Moshiach column • Full Article

Photos: This Week in 770

770

Photos by Dov Ber Hechtman for Chabadinfo

124 | Slideshow

Uplifting and rousing moments, as well as ‘ordinary’ moments; this week, 770 has been full of photogenic scenes, some of which have been captured for posterity through the lens of Chabadinfo photographer Dov Ber Hechtman. Enjoy this week’s gallery of the week of Naso in Beis Chayeinu • Photos

200-Year-Old Torah Restored and Inaugurated at Siberian Irkutsk

News

9 | Slideshow

A 200-year-old Torah scroll dating back more than 200 years was delicately mended and renewed and then inaugurated at a festive ceremony in the Great Synagogue of the Siberian Jewish community of Irkutsk. It was dedicated in honor of the community’s partners and supporters across the globe • Full Story, Photos

After 90 Years in Leningrad, The Shamash Went To Shed On High Light

Magazine

7 | Slideshow

He was no “lamdan,” no “maskil,” and not even what we would ordinarily call an “oveid.” He was just a simple Jew who knew nothing more than what his job is in this world and how to fulfill it best. Reb Zushe Gurewitz, a silent pillar of Leningrad’s Jewish community in the dark period, was instructed by the Rebbe to remain at his post as Shamash of the Chabad Shul in Russia’s former capital even when the gates opened wide and remain he did. This Shevii Shel Pesach he returned his pure soul to its Maker • A profile of a simple, not-so-simple Chassid • By Shneur Zalman Berger, Beis Moshiach Magazine • Full Article

Bryansk: 131 year Old Historic Russian Synagogue Inaugurated After Renovation

News

21 | Slideshow

Hundreds of Jews from Bryansk and the surrounding district, along with the city’s mayor, members of the local parliament, dignitaries, and rabbis, attended the inauguration ceremony of one of the most magnificent synagogues in Russia, which reopened after a decade of restoration and renovation. The historic synagogue was founded over one hundred and thirty years ago • Full Story, Photos, Video

Naso: A Nazir in The Time of Moshiach

Beis Medrash

Zoom

From the desk of Rabbi Nissim Lagziel, Mashpia in Oholei Torah: This week, we read parshas Naso, the longest parsha in the Five Books of the Torah. Among the many topics in the parsha, we will focus on nezirus. A person who makes a vow of nezirus cannot eat grapes nor drink wine (and any food or drink made out of them) • Full Article

L’Chaim: Pink – Feigelstock

Simchas

Photos by Oded Kaizerman for Chabadinfo

67 | Slideshow

The L’Chaim of Mendel Pink of Leicester, England and Chanale Feigelstock of Asuncion, Paraguay, took place Wednesday night at FREE • Photos

Lubavitcher Chaplain Sworn in Front of 770

770

Photos: Eliyahu Ezagui

11 | Slideshow

Lubavitcher Rabbi Dovid Moya was sworn in as a chaplain for the US Navy on Wednesday by Lieutenant Levi Ceitlin, alongside Chaplain Major Dovid Grossman of the US Air Force Auxiliary. At the entrance to 770 in Crown Heights • Full Story, Photos

Darchai Menachem Teachers Treated to Uplifting Shabbaton in the Poconos

Crown Heights

9 | Slideshow

Darchai Menachem recently held a very special Shabbaton in the Poconos to celebrate the yeshiva’s incredible teachers and their families. It was a Shabbos of appreciation, a time to recognize and honor the immense dedication and sacrifice that the Mechanchim and their spouses make for the school and the wider community • Full Story, Photos

Op-Ed: If Assimilation is the “Silent Holocaust,” Family Planning is “Silent Abortion”

Opinion

Zoom

Over the last year, the American public has been extremely divided over the Supreme Court decision undoing the Constitutional protection to have an abortion known as Roe v. Wade. Beis Moshiach Editor Rabbi Levi Liberow writes. As religious Jews, we naturally are happy about such a stain — protecting the right to commit an act so terrible as abortion • Full Article

French Chidon Draws 1,400 Children from Across France

Europe

Photos: David Karsenty

107 | Slideshow

For the ninth consecutive year, Tsivos Hachem France organized the Chidon HaRambam for all Jewish schools in France. Over 1,400 children from 60 Jewish schools in France took part in the project • Full Story, Photos, Video

Mazal Tov

Yossi Zaltzman — Toronto, Canada, to Chana Rivka Stolik — Crown Heights

Koby Berkowitz – Sydney Australia to Chana Weiss Sherman Oaks, CA.

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in The Garden House 1386 S. Johns PL

Moshe Gordon – Crown Heights to Chayale Movsikov – Crown Heights

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) 571 Albany Ave.

Shmuly Golomb – Crown Heights to Mushky Steinmetz – Briarwood, NY

L’Chaim: tonight (Wednesday) in F.R.E.E. 1383 President St.

Videos

28 Nissan: “Do Everything You Can”

X

Array

Beis Moshiach sidebar

HOT NEWS

Levaya of Rabbi Mendy Raitport Passes 770

Hundreds joined the Levaya of Rabbi Mendy Raitport, a longtime Crown Heights resident and Askan, who for many years owned the Crown Kosher butcher shop, as it passed by 770 on its way for burial • Photos
Is it Our Minhag to make Shlissel Challah?

AskTheRav.com: Is it our Minhag to make Shlissel Challah? See Rabbi Yosef Yeshaya Braun‘s response • Full Story
Minister Ben-Gvir Visits The Home of R’ Chanina Sperlin

Last night, dozens of askanim and businessmen from the Crown Heights community joined a meeting at the home of R’ Chanina Sperlin with Itamar Ben-Gvir, the National Security Minister and chairman of the Otzma Yehudit party in Israel • Full Story, Photos
Rabbi Moshe Dov Ginsburg, 61, OBM

We are deeply saddened to report on the passing of Rabbi Moshe Dov Ginsburg, the Rebbe’s Shliach in Haifa, Eretz Yisroel, who brought in twenty-five more Shluchim to the city and revolutionized Yiddishkeit in the third largest city in Eretz Yisroel. He passed away on Shabbos, Chof Ches Nissan, 5785 • Full Story

Editor's Picks

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir Visits 770

Gallery: A Weekly Moment With The Rebbe

Kashrus Alert: Unauthorized CHK Logo on Shor HaBor Products

Hundreds Join Isru Chag Pesach Kinus Torah In 770

Gallery: Last Minute Pesach Preparations in Crown Heights

Rabbonim Clarify Halachos Ahead of Pesach Erev Shabbos

Listen: Dance Track For This Year’s Yud Alef Niggun

11 Nisan Nigunim

YTTL Queens Celebrates Momentous Yeshiva-Wide Siyum

<img class="image_featured" src="https://media.chabadinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/11-nissan-85-chabadinfo-graphic-140x105.jpg" />

78 Niggunim Later: We Have a Niggun!

11 Nisan Nigunim

<img class="image_featured" src="https://media.chabadinfo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/11-nissan-85-chabadinfo-graphic-140x105.jpg" />

15 More Niggunim For Yud Alef Nissan 5785

11 Nisan Nigunim

Beis Medrash

Is it Our Minhag to make Shlissel Challah?

Rambam In-Depth: Why Charoset is a Mitzvah Without a Bracha?

Shemini: The Brothers Debate

Shemini: The Chassidus View of the Soul and Body

WhatsApp side bar

Opinions

Op-Ed: It’s Time to Talk About The Letter of 28 Nissan

How Can I Have A Stress-Free Pesach?

Turn Off to Tune In: A Wake-Up Call for Our Times

It’s Time to Talk About: Making 11 Nissan Personal

Nightly Adar Dancing Kicks Off

X