Thousands of people lined up along the route of President Obama’s motorcade as it passed through the streets of Crown Heights. Lining Kingston Avenue were hundreds of posters calling for the president to investigate the prosecution of Sholom Mordechai Rubashkin. WATCH the president’s speech live – ended.
As anticipation grows for the arrival of President Barrack Obama to Crown Heights, hundreds of reserve police officers are out in force making sure the route is cleared of parked vehicles and ready for the motorcade to travel through, which it is scheduled to do sometime between 3:00 and 6:00 this afternoon.
Lone soldiers, young men who give up comfortable lives abroad to join the Israeli army, have found a home away from home with a young couple in Jerusalem who dedicate their lives to helping them.
An elderly Jewish holocaust survivor celebrated his 90th birthday this morning in the main synagogue of Zhitomir in western Ukraine.
In an effort to bring the case of Sholom Rubashkin to the attention of the President and media, volunteers have worked hard and prepared hundreds of catchy signs in support of Rubashkin.
The Center for Kosher Culinary Arts — the world’s only professional Kosher Culinary Arts school, will be co-producing for the third straight year the Kosher “Iron-Chef” culinary competition. Three top chefs will have thirty minutes to cook one entrée from scratch using only a basket of mystery ingredients and a limited pantry of basic staples. The winner will take home a cash prize of $1000.
Last year the Crown Heights Parents Safety Alliance, a project of the Merkos Chinuch Office, initiated a very successful child-safety program for K-3rd grade in all the Mosdos in Crown Heights, empowering children and teaching them what’s appropriate touch and what’s not and how to respond when situations come up.
The Jewish community of Harlem will welcome its newest member this weekend — the first sacred, handwritten Hebrew scriptures to grace a synagogue in the neighborhood in nearly a century.
“A mitzvah a day keeps the Yetzer Hora away.” Nine year old Yaakov Yosef Heidingsfeld, shliach to Prestwich, England, chose this slogan as his theme on the colorful poster he submitted to Chayolei Tzivos Hashem’s first annual poster contest.
Not all moments are equal in life. At times we are presented a “Golden opportunity,” – a chance to transform our self and our legacy in a single instant; through a single act.
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present two photos of the Rebbe conducting a Farbrengen in the late ’60s.
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