A 6.3-magnitude earthquake rocked New Zealand’s second-largest city Tuesday morning, sending buildings crashing to the street and toppling the city’s central Chabad-Lubavitch center.
Today, Monday, it was a cold wintery day outside, yet in Oholei Torah Kindergarten – East Flatbush Division, it was hot, lively and everyone was in the festive Purim Koton Mood.
LOS ANGELES, CA [CHI] — Some 200 Chabad emissaries of The Rebbe gathered this week for the 39th Annual West Coast Chabad Kinus Hashluchim. In 1972 West Coast Chabad launched the very first Kinus Hashluchim with the blessing and encouragement of The Rebbe, Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, and subsequently inspired the creation of the worldwide Kinus Hashluchim in New York. In fact the world’s first Kinus Hashluchim was held at the world’s first “Chabad House”, founded in 1969 at the UCLA university campus in Los Angeles.
Robert Palomo said he had a different take on the story of man’s fall from the Garden of Eden after talking Sunday night with visiting Rabbi Manis Friedman.
Rabbi Chaim Miller sat with CrownHeights.info to talk about the new Megillah he published from Kol Menachem, and gave us some profound insight into the Rebbes attitude towards the story of Purim, as well as highlighting the significant role women played.
The day has arrived! Registration for the 2011 Softball League opens today and runs through Thursday the 24th of Feb.
A suburban Chicago synagogue’s first-ever blood drive netted 30 donors, with Hebrew school parents, high school students, area homeowners and even grandparents supporting the effort.
With accumulations foretasted to reach 5 inches, Brooklyn was covered in a light snow this Presidents Day. Thanks to warm temperatures the snow quickly melted and little was left by the afternoon.
Excavations in Baltimore’s historic Lloyd Street Synagogue, the third oldest synagogue standing in America, have uncovered the oldest mikvah in the country to-date. The mikvah complex is located in the basement of a row-house adjacent to the Greek revival style synagogue.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — On this car the thief’s didn’t bother with its wheels, they went for the entire interior. Homeowners who use the alleyway behind their homes on President and Carroll Streets found that they couldn’t exit from the Troy side because of a stripped car blocking their path.
Fresh financial pain is on the way, with price hikes expected on everything from underwear to cereal.
An appreciation Homework Helper meeting took place Thursday night at the Shluchim Lounge at The Shluchim Center. It was for the Beth Rivkah Students who volunteer throughout the year assisting the Lilian and Meyer Nigri Online School for Boys and the Shluchim Online School for Girls students with their homework.
Shluchim to the cities of California gathered in Los Angeles for their annual regional Kinus, and posed for a group photo.
In this week’s “Opening the week with the Rebbe. We are presenting a video clip from 12 Tammuz, 5737, where the Rebbe speaks about “Shlaimus Ha’aretz”. In this Sicha the Rebbe explains that instead of giving excuses all the time we should tell the truth as it is.
Alternate side parking (street cleaning) regulations will be suspended on Monday, February 21 for Presidents Day. All other regulations, including parking meters, remain in effect.
Yes they will be saying good bye to Rabbi Yosef Braun, but it’s the Sydney community in which he served for 7 years that will be bidding their farewells as the Braun family will be making their controversial move to Crown Heights.
CROWN HEIGHTS [CHI] — Family and friends gathered this past Motzai Shabbos for a Melava Malka marking one year to the passing of Reb Issac Zellermaier, a stalwart of chesed who dedicated his life to helping people.
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