CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — A 15-year-old Bochur was beaten for no apparent reason Tuesday evening. The incident happened on Montgomery Street between Kingston and Brooklyn Avenues at around 10:45pm.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — With Shavuot just two days away the Bochurim in Chovevei Torah Zal got to hear a special Shiur. The siur on the famous Sicha of the Rabbe, Bar Metzra, was delivered by one of their fellow students.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Today, Tuesday afternoon at about 2:45pm a Black man posing a janitor managed to steal over $5,000 worth of valuables from the Oholei Torah dorm. The man casually walked into the dorm, through the front door and started roaming the hallways.
The disputed elections have taken place, and it remains to be seen what will be on June 3rd. If the plaintiffs drop their claim, then these are the people we will live with for the next three years.
What’s particularly disturbing to me in all this are not the disagreements but the vitriol with which they’ve come to be expressed. The comments made on community websites, particularly CrownHeights.Info have been especially nauseating. The wisdom of posting them aside, the feelings revealed by these postings are irrational to the point of borderline dangerous.
Rabbi Osdoba has been vilified in the most vile terms. Therefore I feel a need to express my opinion.
Hi there. My name is Jacob and I would like to tell you what I did this past Memorial day weekend. On Sunday, I joined 75 fellow high school students for a fun filled day in New York City with the most amazing Rabbis I’ve ever met. The trip was arranged by CTeen- the Chabad network of teens worldwide- as part of their annual “feeling Jewish in the city”.
DORAL, FL — When Rabbi Avrohom Brashevitzky established the Chabad Jewish Center of Doral, he only knew one Jew in Doral and hosted services in private homes.
Three years later, the congregation has grown to about 40 active members and occupies a two-floor space in a shopping center at 9725 NW 41st St.
TOKYO, JAPAN — It’s two days before Shavuot, and Rabbi Mendy Sudakevich has just returned from visiting several prisons in Tokyo. “I’ve got one more to go today.” he tells lubavitch.com in a phone interview. At 7:30 a.m. Wednesday morning, he needs to be at another prison, to advocate on behalf of a Jewish prisoner’s religious needs.
Camp Pre Mesivta is pleased to announce the head staff for the coming summer of 5769. Mendy Wolf from Chicago will serve as the Head Counselor and Mendy Grifkin as Learning Director. Shmully Borentstein will operate as the General Manger and Yosef Shidler will head Public Relations. The counselors and learning teacher’s names may be released down the road however for now they are being withheld.
NEW YORK, NY — He met Sheva and her husband over a traditional Shabbat dinner on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. By the time dessert was cleared, Sheva had a hunch that Michael Corwin, 29, was a perfect match for Julie Ames, a fellow volunteer. Though he had never dated someone through a matchmaker, and later admits that he only followed through “to be agreeable,” Corwin and Ames are now engaged. Sheva, he says, was on the mark.
Kehot Publication Society, the Lubavitch publishing house, has announced the publication of an important halakhic text: She’erit Yehuda, by Rabbi Yehuda Leib of Yanovitch, brother of the founder of Chabad Lubavitch—Rabbi Schneur Zalman of Liadi.
The Chabad Chasidic movement is, perhaps, more known for its advancement of the study of Chasidic philosophy and the Chasidic way of life, than its innovations in the field Jewish law and custom. Indeed, R. Schneur Zalman is known not only as the author of Tanya (the written Torah of Chasidism) but as the author of the Shulchan Aruch. To many of his contemporaries and in successive generations, he is known simply as “the Rav.”
As his right hand man and associate in all matters of leadership and scholarship, esoteric to the exoteric, as architect helping to shape the structure of the Chabad movement and as chief editor of his brother’s works–R Yehuda Leib had strong influence on the direction and form the fledgling Chabad Lubavitch movement would take.
BROOKLYN, NY [CHI] — A bold new vocational school/Yeshiva for Chassidishe young men opened this year, offering students a supportive environment to learn professional skills. At Bramson ORT College, these students earn an Associate’s degree in Business Management– while continuing their religious growth at yeshiva in Crown Heights.
CROWN HEIGHTS, Brooklyn [CHI] — Sunday night we reported the election tally, but that was hardly a reflection of the real outcome of the elections. Monday afternoon and Today, Tuesday the new Vaad began their tenure by taking control of the Community Council and Vaad Hakohol Offices by force, in a massive display of Chilul Hashem, and the opposite of which these bodies are to represent.
Both parties clashed in a spar of verbal assaults and the removal of people from the offices by force. Property was damaged and windows were broken, as members of the opposing factions tried to change locks while others attempted to hold possession of the premises.
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Jackpot: E Chelton
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BROOKLYN, NY — What’s stronger than Samson, as big as Mount Sinai and 100 percent kosher?
It’s the massive, new $250,000 mobile security command center that an Orthodox Jewish civilian neighborhood patrol in Brooklyn has gotten to add some righteous power to its watchdog group.
CrownHeights.info with the Merkos Shlichus office is pleased to announce that registration is in full gear for Summer Merkos Shlichus 5769. Bochrim that are interested in Merkos Shlichus can sign up at http://merkosshlichus.com/
Registration will close on ח’ סיון May 31 so please make sure to sign up on time.
Worried about your elderly parents or grandparents? what to expect how to plan dr visits. are they not acting like they used to? Dr Moskovitz explains how and what to expect in the later years.
In preparation for Shavuot, Chabad.org has launched a new comprehensive section on Birkas Kohanim. This section contains a detailed guide to Birkas Kohanim: when it’s done, both in Israel and the Diaspora; the kohanim’s preparations; the procedure of the brachah; and the congregation’s role. Also included is a deeper look at Birkas Kohanim through the lens of chassidic thought.
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