Thursday: Rally at the Ohel!
IYH this Thursday, the 15th of Teves – May 19th – there will be a rally at the Ohel for all children ages 5 to 12.
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Spate of Raccoon Sightings in Crown Heights
A Raccoon on the front steps of a Crown Heights home. Cellphone photo sent in by a reader.
Over the last few weeks CrownHeights.info has been alerted to many raccoon sightings around the neighborhood. Raccoons pose significant health risks to humans, ranging from rabies to strains of ringworm disease, which can be deadly.
Shliach Writes Eulogy to Jewish Philanthropist Jack Mandel
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Jack Mandel (r) with his brothers Joseph Mandel (l) and Morton Mandel (c).
Titled Remembering my “good buddy” Jack “Yankel” Mandel, Rabbi Raphael Tenenhaus, Shliach in Hallendale, Florida, wrote a beautiful eulogy to the great Jewish philanthropist and Cleveland native, who recently passed away:
Simi Jacobson Invests in Cheder at the Ohel
Mr. Simi Jacobson, C.E.O of The J. Group, joins Kasriel Shemtov and Faivish Pewzner, pillars of the Cheder, with his generous pledge of $18,000.
Serious Accident Snarls Eastern Pkwy Traffic
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A serious crash on Eastern Parkway injured two drivers and backed traffic up for over two hours.
ULYOP Hits the Appalachian Trail
United Lubavitcher Yeshiva of Ocean Parkway’s Shmuel Schrage Midos Program participants were rewarded after an incredible Torah Fair with a grand experience of an extended loop hike along the Appalachian Trail.
Picture of the Day: Famous Pizza Man in Crown Heights!
Have you ever been to Dagan’s Pizza before? If yes, then you surely know Mel the pizza man, and he is in Crown Heights for the day working in Kingston Pizza. Also behind the counter was Avi, the owner of Dagan’s Pizza who is now a partner in the Kingston shop as well.
Rabbi Hassan, the Lag B'Omer marching band instructor, asked the boys to practice in their free time. They did just that during their recess, using their desks, a garbage pail and water bottle!
Video: Darchai Boys Practice for Lag B’Omer
Rabbi Hassan, the Lag B’Omer marching band instructor, asked the boys to practice in their free time. They did just that during their recess, using their desks, a garbage pail and water bottle!
Pedestrian Struck and Injured in Hit and Run
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — A woman was injured after she was struck by a minivan on Eastern Parkway. The vehicle stopped briefly, and then fled the scene.
Darchai Prepares a Parade Float in Their Own Image!
It’s 7pm on a Monday night, and Darchai Menachem is buzzing. Hours after the students are usually long gone, there are scores of boys covering two floors and three rooms, sawing wood, drilling planks together and painting boards. It’s five short days before Lag Ba’omer and staff and students are hard at work on the Darchai Menachem float.
We are pleased to present our Forty Ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Torah in 10: Would you like to swap your life for someone else’s?
We are pleased to present our Forty Ninth online class in the “Torah in Ten” series, presented by the editor-in-chief of Kol Menachem, Rabbi Chaim Miller.
Yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib, OBM
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Bochurim at R’ Yisroel Aryeh Leib’s kever in Tzfas.
Today, Yud Gimmel Iyar, marks the yahrzeit of Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib,OBM, the brother of the Rebbe. Rabbi Yisroel Aryeh Leib was born in Nikolaev on the 16th of Sivan, 5669. That same year, the family moved to Yekatrinaslav, as Rabbi Levi Yitzchok took up the position of Rov of the city. He was known as a genius and child prodigy, and was famous for his diligence.
Reb Dovid Raskin, Lubavitch Youth Leader, 84
Rabbi Dovid Raskin observes Tibor Cooperstein at work. In 1973, the man’s factory designed and produced 60,000 tin Chanukah menorahs in a matter of days. Photo: Lubavitch Archives
Rabbi Dovid Raskin, an immigrant from the Soviet Union who, as chairman of the Lubavitch Youth Organization, spearheaded many educational campaigns instituted by the Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, passed away Tuesday at the age of 84.
Yossi Hackner’s ‘Cry for Help’
Reiterating his promise to keep in better touch with the community, Yossi Hackner wrote a ‘tell-all’ style letter which he titled ‘a cry for help,’ in which he laments the lack of any real change, Rabonim still fighting, and being promised funds and assistance which never came. He concludes with an appeal for the desperately needed money to pay the Rabonim.
Commuters face major disruptions Tuesday morning following a derailment of a work train at the Dekalb Avenue Station.
B Train Derailment Causing Commuter Delays
Commuters face major disruptions Tuesday morning following a derailment of a work train at the Dekalb Avenue Station.
Chabad Shluchim Witness Border Breach
View of Metula, Israel. In the background is a UN post in Lebanon.
Bracha Leah Sassonkin’s front door stands just over 300 feet from Israel’s border with Lebanon. The view she had yesterday of the attempt by Palestinians pouring out of buses trying to breach Israel’s border was too close for comfort.
Accounts of the program – known as a Shabbaton – stressed the transformative quality of the affair.
Students from across Russia gathered in Rostov for a weekend Chabad-Lubavitch run program designed to foster Jewish pride and strengthen participants’ connections to their heritage.
Jewish Students Gather in Rostov for Youth Conference
Accounts of the program – known as a Shabbaton – stressed the transformative quality of the affair.
Students from across Russia gathered in Rostov for a weekend Chabad-Lubavitch run program designed to foster Jewish pride and strengthen participants’ connections to their heritage.
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