Operation Survival, a Crown Heights-based organization under the auspices of the NCFJE, has become the first Jewish program in New York State to register as an Opioid Overdose Prevention Training Program, in response to the heroin epidemic engulfing the nation – to which the Orthodox-Jewish community is not immune.
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The neighborhood of Crown Heights came together Tuesday evening for a march to try to find common ground in the face of recent violence against both black men and police officers nationwide.
Rabbi Yosef Yitzchok Kalmenson, head of the Chabad Yeshiva in New Haven, CT, shares words of Torah with the Gaaved of Yerushalayim, Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss.
The controversial new Eruv in Crown Heights has been vandalized and broken in over 20 places, an advocate for the Eruv told The Forward.
An Israeli chef reveals his latest recipe in honor of the onset of summer: car pizza.
Col. Jacob Goldstein, formerly the chairman of Community Board 9, which encompasses the southern portion of Crown Heights, has filed a Federal lawsuit against Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams for allegedly violating his First Amendment rights by firing him from the board for speaking out to the media.
A new Sefer Torah was completed and dedicated to the French-speaking Jewish community of New York. The new scroll was joyously welcomed in 770 on Sunday, 4 Tammuz.
30 years have passed since reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear plant in Soviet Ukraine exploded in the early morning hours of April 26, 1986, shooting radioactive particles high into the atmosphere and causing the worst nuclear disaster in history.
Rabbi Yossi Freedman, co-director of Chabad of Downtown Cleveland, said the Chabad will offer a space downtown for prayers, services and food during the Republican National Convention, which begins next Monday, July 18.
Rabbi Yitzchok Twerski, son of the Skverer Rebbe, dances with renowned educator Rabbi Zalman Leib Markowitz at his son’s wedding in Oholei Torah, along with Chief Rabbi of Russia Rabbi Berel Lazar.
Rabbi Yitzchok Minkowicz, director of Chabad Lubavitch of Southwest Florida, delivers his insights on this week’s Parsha – Chukas. This week Rabbi Minkowicz answers the question: Are ‘Irrational’ Mitzvos Important?
A horrifying and tragic accident occurred in central Israel this morning; a woman and a young girl were crushed by a piece of heavy construction equipment that fell off of a flatbed truck, killing the woman and critically injuring the child. The woman was identified as Mrs. Chana Geula Dweck, OBM, sister of beloved Crown Heights caterer Reb Dovid Malka, OBM.
The Federation of Jewish Communities in Russia’s publishing house “Knizhniki” showcased the first results of its massive Talmudic translation project last Sunday: tractate Brachot, published in two volumes, was presented to the general public at a press conference during the Yahad youth forum.
“LYA provides a sense of community while instilling self-respect and respect for others”, remarked Carol Engelson, one of the honorees at the recent Lubavitcher Yeshiva Academy (LYA) Scholarship Reception “Generations of Goodness” in Longmeadow, MA.
The campers and staff of Gan Yisroel-New York spent the early hours of the day Sunday on their respective preparations in anticipation of a trip to the Ohel in honor of Gimmel Tamuz.
Rabbi Avraham Lapine, director of Chabad at the University of Missouri, who lost his mother at the age of five to a brutal murderer who broke into their home, wrote the following op-ed about healing the racial divide engulfing the United States, which was printed in The Columbia Daily Tribune.
The oldest American person has died at her Massachusetts home at age 113. Goldie Michelson was a month short of her 114th birthday.
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