For most of the 20th century, Albania was one of Europe’s most isolated countries, as it cut itself off from the liberal West and communist East. Today, a direct flight from Israel takes a little more than two hours, with thousands of Israelis arriving each summer.
A devastating building collapse in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn on Wednesday afternoon has left at least eight people dead and 17 others injured, as emergency crews continue working through the wreckage in an effort to account for everyone who may have been affected.
The Crown Heights community is warmly invited to participate in a special Hachnasas Sefer Torah this Sunday, November 15 (ה׳ כסלו), celebrating the completion and dedication of a new Sefer Torah.
After recovering from injuries sustained on Simchas Torah, Shneur Zalman Neiman, a Lubavitcher Bochur held a Seudas Hodaa in Crown Heights thanking Hashem for his miraculous recovery.
On Tuesday night, Crown Heights residents made their voices heard in a rare mini’ political win for the neighborhood.
An apparently well-intentioned practice in girls’ schools raises an important question: Are we teaching our children to follow the Alter Rebbe’s nusach, or are we quietly creating our own?
During the Kinus, hundreds of Young Shluchim who spend the year learning and connecting across time zones gathered in Crown Heights to meet their chavrusas, classmates, and teachers in person.
The Rabkin Family warmly invites the Crown Heights community and friends to join them for a Siyum and Hachnasas Sefer Torah, dedicated in loving memory of their mother, who passed away on Ches Kislev 5786.
The world is talking to our children. Are we?
As a Chabad representative in Munich, Germany, Rabbi Yochanan Gordon is accustomed to receiving all sorts of questions and inquiries, some more unusual than others. But when his father-in-law, Rabbi Yisroel Diskin, director of Chabad of Munich, forwarded him an email, it piqued his curiosity.
An entire generation of Chassidim who never saw the Rebbe physically, yet they live and breathe the Rebbe. They think Rebbe, they learn Rebbe, they spread the Rebbe’s teachings, and they devote their very lives to fulfilling his holy wishes. What love could possibly be deeper than this? What Hiskashrus could possibly be stronger?
Mayor Zohran Mamdani signed a controversial law Tuesday that gives nonprofits first dibs at buying distressed residential buildings in the Big Apple.
In 1976, the Lubavitcher Rebbe called on all Jewish overnight camps to offer full scholarships for 10% of their slots for campers whose family could not afford the camp fees. Plotkin has kept to that standard, raising funds to give one tenth of campers a summer experience regardless of financial status.
Rabbi Yosef Kantor, head shliach of Chabad in Thailand, spoke to the talmidim of Tomchei Temimim Ocean Parkway (TTOP) ahead of Rosh Chodesh Kislev.
At tonight’s CB9 meeting there is a discussion and vote tonight about proposing a new Homeless Shelter at the former gas station and current vacant lot at 530 Utica Ave.
The gathering provided a forum for sharing knowledge, addressing challenges, and strengthening the standards of Bris Milah through Halachic guidance, medical education, and professional collaboration.
Alternate Side Parking rules will be suspended on Wednesday, November 11th in observance of Veterans Day. Meter rules remain in effect.
