The 18-year-old alleged gunman was nabbed after a dramatic foot chase following the shootout, which occurred at Nostrand Avenue and St. Johns Place in Crown Heights around 4:45 a.m. — and miraculously left the wounded cop, a married dad of three, with just minor injuries.
NWS has issued a Flood Watch in effect through 6:00 a.m. Tuesday. Multiple rounds of rain and embedded thunderstorms are forecast to produce 2 to 3 inches of rainfall across the city through Tuesday morning, with isolated locations receiving up to 4 inches.
At Zlata Hall in Kfar Chabad, 198 Chabad avreichim from across the country gathered last night to receive their certificates upon completing their training as Shluchhey chinuch, as part of a comprehensive educational initiative led by Reshet Oholei Yosef Yitzchak Lubavitch in Eretz HaKodesh.
The central theme woven through the evening’s highlights stemmed from a chilling definition provided by the celebrant himself, who declared to the audience that he was not celebrating eighty, but forty.
What if one of the biggest ideas behind the American Dream didn’t begin in America? Discover the surprising Torah principles that shaped the Founding Fathers’ vision of liberty, property, and opportunity.
Two men have been charged after police allege an imitation pistol was pointed at people gathered outside a Chabad House in Sydney, in what Jewish community leaders have described as a deeply disturbing incident.
Though he tolerated the honor for the sake of the school, the public adulation bothered Dovid. Once he complained to the Rebbe, “I can’t stand this. I go to these dinners, and everyone wants to take a picture with me, and they put my picture in the papers. I don’t like it and I don’t want it.”
For many families, every one of those moments was built by someone who chose to give. This year, Bonei Olam Chabad invites you to Celebrate Your Blessings. Help Another Family Begin Theirs. Because the beginning you make possible today will echo for generations.
Way out among the Caribbean isles lies Sint Eustatius, known locally as Statia. This Dutch island was home to a small Jewish community that played an active role in the American Revolution.
Rabbi Chaim Dalfin, author and Chasidic historian shares interesting facts, many revealed for the first time. The purpose of his program is to inspire all but especially the youth. Watch another installment here on CrownHeights.info.
This week I am posting a powerful saying or thought which I heard during a farbrengen on Yud Beis Tammuz, as well as one of the concepts that I mentioned at a farbrengen. As always, your feedback and comments are most welcome and greatly appreciated.
A significant and joyous event took place in the Dnipro Jewish Community – the completion of writing and the ceremonial donation of a new Sefer Torah to the Chabad community of Vinnytsia, in the merit of Igor Kolomoisky, son of Zoia, for his speedy release and long life, from his friends and the Dnipro Jewish Community.
Chesky Malamud (Crown Heights) to Racheli Camissar (Surfside, FL) L’Chaim: Monday, July 6th, 8:00pm at 570 Crown Street
In this week’s Dvar Torah, Rabbi Katzman works to understand the reason for challenges, the reason for difficulties that would appear to be negative. The truth though, may be all about progress.
Mendy and Chana Etta Reicher from Coral Springs, FL had a baby boy!
Chabad-Lubavitch of Flatbush has been housed in the Wyckoff-Bennett Homestead, a Dutch Colonial farmhouse on Brooklyn’s Kings Highway, since 2024, but the landmark farmhouse has been standing since around 1766.
Mr. Eliyahu Kholedenko, Founder and CEO of Questrade Financial Group, will join this year’s Kinus HaMechanchim, bringing with him a demonstrated commitment to advancing Chinuch through meaningful initiatives and support.
