Leshono Tova Tikosaivu V’Tichosemu!

As we are all making our final preparations to usher in the new year, we – the staff at CrownHeights.info – would like to wish our loyal readers and fans a happy and healthy sweet new year, K’siva Vachasima Tova, Leshono Tova Tikosaivu V’Tichosemu and a Gut Gebentched Yohr. May this year be a safe, successful and prosperous year to all, and may we achive our ultimate goal and report the coming of Moshiach speedily in our days!

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Crown Heights Native Behind Uman Hospitality

Yeshiva World News

Tzvi Bogomilsky

Tzvi Bogomilsky, 36, a resident of Florida, is the man behind what some would call the largest hachnasas orchim operation in the world, playing a major role in Uman’s Rosh Hashanah event hosted by Breslov.

Why Do Hasidim Live Like Saudi Women?

by Debra Nussbaum Cohen – Forward

It looked, this week, like there might be progress for women in Saudi Arabia. King Abdullah granted women the right to vote, and to run for election to municipal councils and be appointed full voting members of the Majlis Al-Shura, a government advisory group. According to a New York Times editorial this week, however, women will still need the approval of a male family member.

Op-Ed: The Blessing of a Child

Fulfilling the dream of having a child is something not all of us are fortunate enough to experience. Not many people give much thought to the subject of infertility. To most people it comes natural but that is not always the case.

Man Shot Dead on Sterling Street

CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A man was shot eight times and killed late Thursday night last week and the police have not been able to identify him. The victim has been listed as a John Doe in the Kings County morgue and police have no leads on who killed him.

Poway Rabbi Wants Kids to Skip School

North County Times

Rabbi Mendy Rubenfeld, youth director at Chabad of Poway, San Diego County, demonstrates how to play a note on the shofar, a traditional Jewish instrument made from a ram’s horn and key to the religion’s holidays, during a workshop at the Altman Family Chabad Community Center.

Just before sundown on Monday, dozens of children on the back patio of the Altman Family Chabad Community Center were carrying around ram’s horns, working sandpaper across the rough shell or trying to blow a note, any note, through their new shofars.