Rent in Crown Heights Up 8% Since Last Year
Despite relatively steady rental prices in Brooklyn overall, Crown Heights rents jumped almost 8 percent last year, a new real estate report found.
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Shliach Denounces Mezuza Theft As Hate Crime
A Manhattan Chabad rabbi found himself the victim of vandalism this past Sunday night when he discovered that the mezuza had been ripped from the door leading into his apartment.
Guns, Explosives Found in Crown Heights Apartment
It seemed like routine fire, in a non-descript little apartment in Brooklyn, but what firefighters found was anything but routine.
PSA: Daylight Savings Time Begins Motzai Shabbos
Daylight Savings Time begins on Motzai Shabbos and we ‘spring ahead’ – at 2:00am it will become 3:00am, taking away an hour of sleep.
Shabbos at the Besht: Do Wealthy People Also Need Bitachon?
This Shabbos at the Besht, Rabbi Zalman Goldberg, renowned lecturer and director of gotbitachon.com, will lead a discussion on the topic – do wealthy people also need bitachon?
Next Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, the 76th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s dramatic rescue from a burning Warsaw and his arrival in America. “America Iz Nisht Anderish” was the Frierdiker Rebbe’s statement upon his arrival in America.
Weekly Story: ‘America Iz Nisht Anderish’
Next Shabbos is Tes Adar Sheini, the 76th anniversary of the Frierdiker Rebbe’s dramatic rescue from a burning Warsaw and his arrival in America. “America Iz Nisht Anderish” was the Frierdiker Rebbe’s statement upon his arrival in America.
by Rabbi Sholom Avtzon
Weekly Living Torah Video: Purim Farbrengen
Spending Purim with the Rebbe was always a memorable experience. From the reading of the Megillah to the general atmosphere which prevailed, the Rebbe uplifted the Chassidim throughout.
Photo: Lubavitch.com
Picture of the Day: Jewish Teens Unite in Samara
Jewish youth from the Russian city of Samara attended an Enerjew Shabbaton last weekend, led by local Shliach Rabbi Shlomo Deutch. Enerjew is the teen division of Chabad of the Former Soviet Union.
Weekly Unique Photo of the Rebbe
CrownHeights.info and Lubavitch Archives present a unique photo of the Rebbe entering 770 to daven.
Letter & Spirit: Artificially Raising Crop Yields
In this week’s edition of Letter and Spirit, we present a unique letter written by the Rebbe in 1968, in which he explains the concept of holiness/kedusha as it relates to the Holy Land and to other areas. In the P.S. of the letter, the Rebbe touches on the subject of increasing land productivity through artificial means, and makes some interesting comments about the safety of doing this. The letter was written in English through the Rebbe’s trusted secretary Rabbi Nissan Mindel, and was made available by the latter’s son-in-law, Rabbi Sholom Ber Shapiro.
Friendship Circle Increases in Adar Joy
The YAD – Boys of the Friendship Circle of Brooklyn, which includes boys ages 9 and up and their buddies from local Yeshivas, gathered at the Jewish Children’s Museum for a very special dancing and open mic night in celebration of Rosh Chodesh Adar II.
A teenage boy and girl were shot just at around 3:45pm Thursday on President Street and Franklin Avenue, near Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights.
Two Teenagers Shot in Crown Heights
A teenage boy and girl were shot just at around 3:45pm Thursday on President Street and Franklin Avenue, near Medgar Evers College in Crown Heights.
Australian Billionaire Bails Out Chabad School
Australia’s third richest man, Harry O. Triguboff, pledged one million dollars to help rescue the troubled Yeshiva Centre, Chabad’s flagship school in Bondi.
Breaking: Suspected Stabber Has Been Arrested
A source within the 71st Precinct has notified CrownHeights.info that the man who allegedly stabbed Leiby Brickman in Crown Heights exactly one month ago has been arrested and taken into custody. The suspect has been identified as 26-year-old Keny Rochelin.
Putin Honors Chabad Emissary
In a pompous ceremony that recently took place in the Kremlin, Russian President Vladimir Putin bestowed one of Russia’s highest honors upon Moscow Chabad Shliach and head of the Federation of Jewish Communities Rabbi Alexander Boroda.
Round II of Shabbatons Takes Young Shluchim’s Friendships to the Next Level
This time last year, Mendel and Avremi Shapiro of Flagstaff, AZ participated in the very first MyShliach regional boys’ shabbaton, hosted by shluchim Rabbi Shea and Dina Harlig of nearby Las Vegas. Also in attendance were Mendel and Shmulie Winner, shluchim to Tucson, AZ, whose parents are longtime friends of the Shapiros.
Rabbi Benny’s Weekly Torah Thought: The One With the Drunk Cloud
Rabbi Benny Hershcovich, Shliach in Cabo S. Lucas, Mexico, delivers his brief and hilarious thought on this week’s Parsha, Pekudei. This week Rabbi Benny answers the question: Why at the very end of the book of Exodus, does the Torah change subjects to tell us about the Jewish people following the clouds of glory when they traveled and when they camped?
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