A fire last week in the Rohr Chabad Student Network of Ottawa building in Canada has damaged the home that serves as the communal gathering spot for Jewish students and as the residence for the area’s emissaries, Yocheved and Rabbi Chaim Boyarsky and their five daughters, ages 2 to 10.
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Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba and Rabbi Shlomo Segal met this morning to do the traditional sale of the Chometz [leavened breads] to a gentile in the Kolel Tiferes Z’keinim in 770. Rabbis Moshe Bogomilsky and Shimon Hecht did the same in the offices of the NCFJE.
Crown Heightsers set out this morning to fulfill the custom of Biur Chometz – the burning of Chometz. As in previous years a spot in front of 770 was designated as the central location.
Cousins unknown to each other for decades following the Holocaust have been reunited this week with a stunning discovery that shook them to their very core.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended Tuesday through Friday, April 15-18 for Passover. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Mr. Greens and Mr. Clean, both Albany Avenue merchants, helped ease some members of the community’s Pesach financial burden by distributing donated and unclaimed clothes and shoes, as well as cases of quality produce to needy families in Crown Heights.
Once again this year, the teachers of Oholei Torah were given helping hand in relieving the financial burden of the cost of produce and poultry ahead of the upcoming Yom Tov of Pesach.
With sadness we inform you of the passing of Philip (Shraga Feivel) Schneider, OBM, father of Reb Yerachmiel Schneider of Crown Heights. He was 83 years old.
Just 24 hours before the onset of Pesach, kosher consumers everywhere are scrambling to find whitefish alternative after an exceptionally cold winter has created a massive whitefish shortage.
Please take a moment and say a Kapital Tehillim for two women who urgently need our prayers - Sima bas Liba Mania and Sara Riva bas Esther Beila.
There are four sons at the Seder. Traditional wisdom has it that the wicked one is the worst off of them all. But traditional wisdom seems not to be the Rebbe’s approach.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on the Yomtov of Pesach.
Levi and Chanie (nee Druck) Ben-Shahar (Jerusalem, Israel)
Gadi and Devorah Leah (nee Yarmush) Hershkop (Crown Heights)
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe drawing mayim shelanu to be used to bake Matzos the Rebbe would distribute.
Three people were reported dead and a teen-age boy critically wounded after shootings today at the Jewish Community Center of Greater Kansas City, Kan., and at the nearby Village Shalom assisted-living and retirement center, both situated about a mile from the Chabad House Center of Kansas City.
The Mora D’Asro and Rov of Crown Heights, Rabbi Avrohom Osdoba released a letter ahead of the upcoming holiday of Pesach to warn the community of egregious forgeries of the Beis Dins’ Kashrus.
Following the major success and popularity of the first broadcasts of MyLife: Chassidus Applied, Rabbi Simon Jacobson will air Episode 13 tonight, Sunday, April 6th (6 Nissan) here on CrownHeights.info, beginning at 8:00pm. This week’s class is titled “Dealing with Suicidal Thoughts, Gender Identity Challenges and Pesach Chumras.”
“How do you choose a birthday present?” was the question Mrs. Yehudis Wolvovsky asked students Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy in Longmeadow, MA. Mrs. Wolvovsky is a Shlucha in Glanstonbury, CT and her children attend LYA.
Dudi and Bella (nee Pinson) Alroy (Crown Heights)
In his latest video in the Jew-bel-ish series, Chasidic comedian Mendy Pellin performs a popular hip-hop song – with a Jewish twist.
Rabbi Levi Yitzchok Garelik, renowned author, lecturer and Rov, compiled a list of ‘reminders’ in connection with the laws and customs of the month of Nissan and the Yom Tov of Pesach, which he published on his website TheOnlineRabbi.com.
